Round two of the Sinquefield Cup leg of the Grand Chess Tour saw all six games end in a draw. Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi had the biggest chances but slipped. Viswanathan Anand still leads the event as he is the only player to win in St. Lou...
In several recent tweets, Viswanathan Anand explained that his son has taken quite a liking to the instructional videos on ChessKid.com. Well, Akhil, turns out your dad can teach you about winning tactics, too. "I'll show him the position and se...
Despite losses in his first and last game of the day, Levon Aronian ended on top at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. The Armenian GM scored half a point more than Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took over the lead from Levon Aronian at the end of the first day of blitz at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen scored disappointingly again and is out of contention. MVL and Carl...
An amateur chess player with a national rating of 1512, who had raised suspicion due to strong results at recent tournaments, was caught carrying a phone during a game at the Dutch Open Championship in Dieren, The Netherlands at the end of Ju...
After day three, Levon Aronian finds Maxime Vachier-Lagrave next to him on the leaderboard of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. The French GM lost to Magnus Carlsen but won his last two rapid games take over the number-...
On Sunday, Russian top GM Ian Nepomniachtchi outlasted 15 opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship, defeating GMs Zhamsaran Tsydypov, Sam Sevian and Pentala Harikrishna and the un...
Scoring two draws and a win on Sunday, Levon Aronian maintained his lead at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis. Magnus Carlsen got just one draw out of three games. Both his fans and colleagues agree ...
On Saturday, Wei Yi defeated Jeffery Xiong in an armageddon tiebreak game to be crowned champion of the 2019 Junior Speed Chess Championship. The match had ended 13.5-13.5, and four more games in overtime also couldn't bring a decision. ...
Levon Aronian started with a perfect 3/3 on the first day of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis. The Armenian grandmaster leads by a full point. After Cote d'Ivoire, Zagreb and Paris, the 2019 Grand Chess Tour resume...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship now moves to the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals to be played over-...
Hikaru Nakamura will be guest commentator during the final of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Top juniors Wei Yi and Jeffery Xiong will play for the championship. The winner of the Junior...
Vladimir Dobrov of Russia and Alireza Firouzja of Iran have qualified for the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. Dobrov earned his spot as the winner of this month's Titled Tuesday, while Firouzja won yesterday's qualifier tournament for inv...
The opening of Group D in the PRO Chess League Summer Series had it all. The Montreal Chessbrahs pulled off an improbable comeback to beat the Cannes Blitzstreams, and the Minnesota Blizzard shocked the PRO Chess League wh...
Hey chess lovers! It's time again to look back at the month that was. As always, the product-development team kept things humming with new features, bug fixes, improvements and new releases. The operations, fair play, and support teams made th...
Ian Nepomniachtchi edged out Alexander Grischuk on tiebreak to win the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Both players scored 5/7, but Nepomniachtchi had beaten Grischuk in their mutual game. It was a fighting last day in the Wa...
The reigning Chess.com Computer Chess Champion Stockfish continues to assert itself as the greatest chess engine of all time, recently picking up a win in CCC 9: The Gauntlet. Stockfish won CCC 9 over Leelenstein, a neural-network...
Thanks to a score of 2.5/3 on Monday, Ian Nepomniachtchi is the leader after five rounds at the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The last two rounds will be played on Tuesday. After winning the Moscow Grand Prix...
Vladimir Kramnik is one of the participants in Levitov Chess Week, a small, private, top tournament held in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Together with Vishy Anand, Kramnik won the opening blitz tournament. "Private" is probably ...
The first officially recognized live and online Fischer Random Chess Championship is heating up this summer as the world's best players hope to advance on Chess.com through to the in-person conclusion of the tournament in Norway. The Fischer Ran...
It almost went wrong, but eventually he clinched it. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Paris Grand Chess Tour on Thursday, while the 49-year-old Vishy Anand reached an excellent second place. "It's a joy of course, but righ...
Local hero Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is two points ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander Grischuk with nine blitz rounds to go at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. The tournament resumes with the remaining nine rounds of blitz on Th...
Speed Chess Championship qualifier action resumes today with an invitational Speed Chess qualifier, a tournament featuring the top eight blitz and bullet players on Chess.com who have not already qualified for the main bracket. Among the...
The Indian chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu made history this week to become one of the youngest winners of the traditional Copenhagen Open, now known as the Xtracon Chess Open, held in Helsingor, Denmark. The Xtracon Chess Open was the m...
