After winning in Gibraltar, Vladislav Artemiev scored his second big victory of the year at the European Individual Chess Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia. The Russian GM edged out Nils Grandelius on tiebreak after both finished o...
After yet another day of more wins than draws, a full nine players left the Saint Louis Chess Club as winners in round nine of the 2019 U.S. championships. Just like in round seven, the four leading men won again (this time joined by the defending...
Yasser Seirawan dubbed first-time U.S. championship player Leinier Dominguez the "quiet assassin" today as he wrapped up his second consecutive victory to join Hikaru Nakamura atop the tables. Both men are on 5.5/8 after the recent Ame...
The Gashimov Memorial starts this Sunday in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Anish Giri are the top seeds in what will be a very strong sixth edition. It was in January 2014 when one of Azerbaijan's most ta...
Two teams booked their tickets to the live PRO Chess League final four in San Francisco on Tuesday, as Saint Louis and Chengdu emerged victorious from their respective quarterfinals match-ups. The two PRO Chess League powerhouses will have ...
At last! Today we finished rolling out a brand new version of our beloved Tactics Trainer, which will now be known simply as Puzzles! This vital training tool is everything it used to be—but it's now deeper, more interactive and emphasizes&n...
It's Hikaru Nakamura alone who is enjoying the lead at the 2019 U.S. championship during the rest day. The 31-year-old grandmaster beat Timur Gareyev and is the only player on 4/6. Jennifer Yu kept her half-point lead in round six. ...
Watch here: www.Twitch.tv/Chess The PRO Chess League's playoffs are halfway through the quarterfinals. With two teams qualified and four teams left to compete for the two final spots, the question now is: Who will make it to San Francisco? ...
On Sunday, the number of leaders went from four to five at the 2019 U.S. championship. Sam Sevian defeated Varuzhan Akobian to join the group on plus one. Jennifer Yu dropped her first half-point but still leads the women's tournament. ...
After four rounds the 2019 U.S. championship has four leaders, all on plus one: Jeffery Xiong, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Dominguez. Jennifer Yu leads the women's tournament after winning all four games. U.S. Championship: ...
The first week of the 2019 PRO Chess League Playoffs saw eight teams progress to the quarterfinals, where they will each vie for a coveted spot in the live PRO Chess League Final in San Francisco this May. Their progression means that the P...
Maxim Rodshtein (Israel), Ferenc Berkes (Hungary), Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) and Kacper Piorun (Poland) are the only players on 4.5/5 at the European Individual Chess Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia. Saturday is the one and only rest...
As winners in the second round, Sam Sevian and Wesley So joined Jeffery Xiong in the lead at the 2019 U.S. championship. Carissa Yip and Jennifer Yu are tied for first place in the women's tournament. U.S. Championship: "First of all it w...
Top grandmasters Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Anish Giri of the Netherlands today joined forces in a video posted on Carlsen's Twitter account as part of a United Nations campaign against racism. For once, they broke the rule in chess th...
Jeffery Xiong is the early leader at the 2019 U.S. championship thanks to a win with the black pieces vs Timur Gareyev. All six games in the women's championship were decisive. Moved up a bit in the calendar, the 2019 U.S. championships (open an...
The Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish defended its sixth straight title last weekend as it bested the machine-learning engine Lc0 in a heads-up match that went the distance to the maximum number of games. Stockfish took the C...
Although he is living in a homeless shelter and only learned to play chess a year ago, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, an eight-year-old Nigerian refugee, won the New York State Championship earlier this month. The story has been covered by major news ...
It's playoff time for the PRO Chess League, and the teams from the Atlantic and Pacific Division aim to get one step closer to the live esports final in San Francisco. Play starts Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. PDT (4:20 p.m. EDT, 8:20 p.m. GMT). The...
Tickets for the PRO Chess League Finals in San Francisco are available here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com brings Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League championship to Twitch. San Francisco, March 18, 2019—Chess.com, th...
Top seed GM Wang Hao of China stamped his authority on the HD Bank International Masters 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to win yet another GM open in Asia. The HD Bank International is already into its ninth edition since its incept...
A wild Grob Attack decided the Team Chess Battle match between U.S. and France on March 15. Hikaru Nakamura’s TeamBattlesUSA had the better of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s TeamBattlesFrance on a three rapid games online battle across the...
With the regular season complete, sixteen teams are one step closer to reaching the PRO Chess League Finals in San Francisco on May 4-5. With eleven different countries represented across the four divisions, the bracket is now set for Round of 16 ...
With the final week of the 2019 PRO Chess League regular season complete, the playoff picture is set as 16 teams saw their season come to an end. Notable omissions include the Montreal Chessbrahs and the San Jose Hackers, as both teams did not per...
The Russian grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov won the first edition of the Prague International Chess Festival masters with 5.5/9. Spanish GM David Anton won the challengers and promoted to the highest group next year. In the ...
