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...
Saturday's action in Group B of the PRO Chess League Summer Series saw each of the four teams do just enough to keep their Summer Series Championship hopes alive. With all four teams scoring points in the standings, fans will have to wai...
Day four of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour was exciting despite all six games ending in draws. In an enterprising day of chess, the players entertained one and all in what can be called the round of missed chances. Tournament leade...
Thirteen players in chess history have crossed the 2800 rating barrier. Could Ian Nepomniachtchi become the 14th? The Russian star won his third consecutive game in Zagreb, reaching a 3/3 score by defeating Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with the black p...
She entered the competition as a qualifier, joined the bracket as the lowest seed and ended up winning the whole thing. Elina Danielian beat Valentina Gunina 15-13 in Thursday's final of the inaugural Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Champi...
After a bloody affair on day one, round two at the Croatia Grand Chess Tour returned to normal, with five out of the six games ending in draws. Most of them were fighting games, while only Ian Nepomniachtchi managed to defeat Fabian...
Stavanger, Norway is officially out of the bidding process for the 2020 world chess championship, organizers announced. Magnus Carlsen's father, Henrik Carlsen, asked the Stavanger organizers to withdraw the bid in a Facebook post on Thursd...
The 2019 Grand Chess Tour resumed in Zagreb, Croatia on Wednesday with its second event of the year after the season opener in Abidjan with the Cote d'Ivoire Rapid and Blitz. The Croatia leg is the first of two classical events on this tour. ...
The final of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played Thursday between GM Valentina Gunina from Russia and GM Elina Danielian from Armenia. A prize fund of $6,000 is at stake. You can watch Valentina Gunina vs...
Magnus Carlsen drew strong reactions in Norway today by creating a new chess club that offers free membership to the first 1,000 members, with Carlsen paying the federation fees himself. Carlsen said the club was made to help new players an...
The 2020 PRO Chess League season is just around the corner, and with more teams than ever interested in qualifying for the world's only global rapid online chess league, the league will be expanding the number of qualifiers to four. The first q...
Coming back from a four-point deficit hadn't been seen in the history of speed chess matches on Chess.com until Valentina Gunina defeated Alexandra Kosteniuk 16.5-14.5 in Sunday's Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinal. Gunina wil...
Group B of the PRO Chess League Summer Series kicked off with major upsets in both Live Club Matches. Barcelona announced their return to the PRO Chess League by burying Baden Baden in their match, which was followed by a strong showing ...
The second semifinal of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played today between GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and GM Valentina Gunina, both from Russia. The winner of the Women's Speed Chess Championship will qualify for the ge...
Elina Danielian defeated Harika Dronavalli 15-13 on Thursday in the first Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinal. On Sunday, the other semifinal will be played between Alexandra Kosteniuk and Valentina Gunina. She did it befo...
The Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship continues today with the first semifinal of the competition between GM Harika Dronavalli (India) and GM Elina Danielian (Armenia). The winner of the Women's Speed Chess Championship will qualif...
GM Benjamin Gledura eliminated GM Awonder Liang on Tuesday in what was a thriller of a Junior Speed Chess Championship match. Gledura had lost the bullet segment, but then won three straight bullet games in overtime. This sentence from our ...
In what was the most lopsided match in the round of 16, GM Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran was way too strong for GM Luca Moroni of Italy. The Iranian star won 20-7 in yesterday's Junior Speed Chess Championship match. It's part o...
Today GM Benjamin Gledura of Hungary plays GM Awonder Liang of the U.S. in what will be the last match in the round of 16 of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Today's match will determine ...
Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia had already secured victory at the FIDE women's candidates' tournament and so her final round loss was easy to handle. Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine finished in second place, 1.5 points behind the winner....
Today, the Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo and the Italian GM Luca Moroni are the next players to take part in the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. This match will determine who will be th...
