After just 12 moves, Veselin Topalov threw in the towel and offered a draw today. With the draw, the Bulgarian GM ensured his elimination, and his opponent Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the first to qualify for the semifinal of the FIDE ...
On Tuesday, Jeffery Xiong of the USA plays Benjamin Gledura of Hungary in the fourth and last match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. The winner of Tuesday's match ...
Round two of the FIDE Grand Prix cycle started on Monday in Riga, Latvia and had only one winner: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. This is the second Grand Prix tournament, following the Moscow Grand Prix. Only eight players remain in this knocko...
Group C of the PRO Chess League Summer Series could not have had a more dramatic start. In a group with three PRO Chess League playoff teams, tensions were high on Saturday, as the Armenia Eagles, Moscow Wizards, Mumbai Movers, and ...
Eight chess masters will play a Swiss tournament on Wednesday to try to qualify for the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in the Isle of Man this October. Four of the highest-placing men and women in the past four months of Titled Tuesday will play two...
Two matches in the Riga Grand Prix's first round went all the way to the Armageddon game to force a decision. Only Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov reached the second round without needing a tiebreak. With tiebreaks at both the W...
The FIDE Grand Prix cycle resumed today in Riga, Latvia. This is the second Grand Prix tournament, following the Moscow Grand Prix won by Ian Nepomniachtchi. Each Grand Prix is a 16-player knockout event in which the players play two classical gam...
GM Igors Rausis is under investigation for cheating after he was caught with his phone during a game at the Strasbourg Open. The 58-year-old Latvian-Czech grandmaster had raised suspicions after he increased his rating in recent years to...
Vishy Anand, a legendary chess player and five-time world champion, will join forces with ChessKid to promote scholastic chess in India, Anand and ChessKid announced today. Anand, India's first chess grandmaster, held the press conference in his h...
Wei Yi was clearly too much to handle for Jorden van Foreest in Wednesday's Junior Speed Chess Championship quarterfinal match. The Chinese GM won 18.5-8.5 and will now face Alireza Firouzja in the semifinal. It's no surprise...
On Thursday, Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran plays Alexey Sarana of Russia in the third match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Thursday's match will determine the oppon...
Alireza Firouzja defeated Sam Sevian by a score of 17-10 Tuesday, including a dominant 7.5-2.5 performance in the 1|1 portion to advance to the semifinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship. Firouzja will face Wei Yi in the J...
On Wednesday, Wei Yi of China plays Jorden van Foreest of the Netherlands in the second match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Wednesday's match will determin...
On Tuesday, Alireza Firouzja of Iran plays Sam Sevian of the U.S in the first match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Tuesday's match will determine who will f...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Sunday to reach 8/11 and win the Croatia Grand Chess Tour. Even his direct rivals were full of praise. The world champion won his eighth straight tournament and earned $90,000 as well as 20 ...
Group B of the PRO Chess League Summer Series came to a close on Saturday with Baden Baden Snowballs and Reykjavik Puffins both clinching spots in the Summer Series Championship. The biggest surprise of the series so far came f...
In yesterday's report, there was a sense that round 10 of the Grand Chess Tour Croatia would be the decisive round, with Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So squaring off to determine who would walk into round 11 at the Novinarski Dom ...
Round nine of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour ended mostly in peace across all games except for Shakhriyar Mamedyarov besting Vishy Anand with some masterful bishop play. In a round characterized by solid openings and missed opportunit...
Magnus Carlsen once again submitted a near flawless performance in round eight of the Grand Chess Tour in Zagreb, not only defeating Ding Liren in classical for the first time in his career, but doing so with the black pieces. GM Al...
July is upon us, chess fans—and you know what that means: Once again, it's time to catch up with what's been going on with Chess.com product development and community support over the last month. June kept us busy! Here's how... Live Che...
Which top-10 players has Magnus Carlsen never beaten in classical chess? Until today, the answer was Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. Now only Ding Liren is unscathed. Even as the round was just beginning, fans on Twitter were anticipating t...
An ancient chess piece kept in a drawer for 55 years and originally bought for £5 was today sold at auction for £735,000 (U.S. $927,062, or 820,232 euro). It is almost certainly one of the famous Lewis Chessmen that date from the late ...
Both Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So won important and impressive games today to catch Ian Nepomniachtchi in first place as the Russian GM found his king netted in dangerous central waters against Ding Liren. In a tournament that has proved quite e...
Round five of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour saw as many as five games end in a draw. World number three Ding Liren was the lone winner as he defeated Anish Giri. Ian Nepomniachtchi drew Hikaru Nakamura to maintain his one-point lead. A...
