The PRO Chess League Summer Series kicked off last night with Group A action as Chengdu, San Diego, Saint Louis, and San Francisco each took their first steps to qualify for the PRO Chess League Summer Series Championships this August. On openin...
Sponsored by Chesskid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Monday with its fourth match, between Sam Sevian of the USA and Nihal Sarin of India. Alireza Firouzja defeated José Martinez with the bigges...
Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu put up a great fight, but eventually Wei Yi was a mountain too high. The Chinese grandmaster won their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Friday with a score of 14.5-11.5. 13-year-old Praggnanandaa once ...
Coming to the match well prepared, GM Harika Dronavalli defeated GM Marie Sebag 15.5-10.5 on Thursday and will now face Elina Danielian in the Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinals. The match started a bit later th...
The Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Friday with its third match, between two rising stars from two powerhouse chess countries. It's Wei Yi of China playing Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu of India. We've seen Alireza Firouz...
After the Baden Baden Snowballs had all of their personal belongings stolen at the PRO Chess League Live Finals earlier this month, the Chess.com community came together to support the German side last Saturday. "I'm just speechless. This e...
The Women's Candidates' Tournament, an eight-player all-play-all that will determine the challenger for Ju Wenjun in the next Women's World Championship match, will start Friday in Kazan, Russia. It was one of the first decisions of the new FIDE...
The Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship continues today with the fourth and last quarterfinals matchup between GM Harika Dronavalli (India) and GM Marie Sebag (France). Three semifinalists are known: Elina Danielian (who beat Kateryna Lag...
The FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who defeated his compatriot Alexander Grischuk on Wednesday in the second of two rapid tiebreak games. A few days ago he said he had a positive feeling about this tourna...
Watch the first ever ChessKid Games live at www.Chess.com/TV and www.Twitch.tv/Chess. Ten of the most talented American juniors and ten more child prodigies will partner up and face off in the inaugural "ChessKid Games" on June 1. The compe...
The FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow will be decided in a tiebreak on Wednesday. Both classical games between Russian grandmasters Alexander Grischuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi ended in draws. It's been a long tournament that started on Friday, M...
GM Valentina Gunina showed her blitz skills as she crushed GM Irina Krush 24 to 5 in Monday's quarterfinal match of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The match saw the highest percentage of decisive games ever on ...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk cruised to victory against IM Anna Zatonskih in Sunday's quarterfinal match of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Especially in the bullet section, Kosteniuk was just too strong. As it turned out, Za...
The Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship continues today with the third quarterfinals matchup between GM Valentina Gunina (Russia) and GM Irina Krush (USA). A day after Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Anna Zatonskih we're...
It lasted only two days, and took place in a historic distillery in Scotland. The Lindores Abbey Chess Stars Tournament was an unfamiliar event but saw a familiar end as it was won by Magnus Carlsen. A rather unique tournament suddenly pop...
The Chess.com Women' Speed Chess Championship continues today with the second quarterfinals matchup between GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) and IM and WGM Anna Zatonskih (USA). We're having two Women's Speed Chess Championship ma...
Ian Nepomniachtchi will be Alexander Grischuk's opponent in the final of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow which starts on Monday. Today, the Russian grandmaster defeated Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland in the fourth game of thei...
In a thrilling battle that came down to the final games, Stockfish won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week, edging out the machine-learning engine Lc0. Stockfish scored 82.5/150 to reclaim its championship tit...
Alexander Grischuk reached the final of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. Today, the Russian grandmaster defeated Hikaru Nakamura in the second classical game. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Radoslaw Wojtaszek will be playing a tiebreak tomorr...
Chess in a Filipino park, chess as a therapy for tough times and as a source for marketing and for cartoons. There are interesting new facts about female participation, and the female GM Harika Dronavalli shares her journey. And have you seen th...
Both semifinal games—Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Hikaru Nakamura vs. Alexander Grischuk—ended in draws rather abruptly today at the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. Tomorrow is the second day o...
Deciding the match in the very last bullet game, eighth seed GM Elina Danielian of Armenia Wednesday kicked out top seed GM Kateryna Lagno of Russia from the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Experience and mouse skills ...
Alexander Grischuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura won their tiebreaks today and qualified for the third round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. Tomorrow, Nepomniachtchi will play a match against Radoslaw Wojtaszek, and Gr...
Alireza Firouzja was the clear favorite, and he proved it. The Iranian rising star crushed José Martinez of Peru 18-7 in their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Tuesday. As the current number-two in the Chess.com bullet rating...
