A visually impaired chess player has been permanently banned by the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) after having been caught red-handed with an earplug glued to his palm during a game against a nine-year-old girl. Norwegian chess reporter Tarjei ...
June's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players. As evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country. With two trips (top m...
Fabiano Caruana won the €75,000 first prize at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament after beating Wesley So and seeing his main rivals draw their games. In the last round, Vishy Anand won against Sergey Karjakin. ...
It was a good day for American chess as both Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament, and Wesley So held a worse rook ending. Magnus Carlsen, So, Nakamura and Caruana are lea...
Viswanathan Anand defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in round seven of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament and is now tied for first place. The other news today was Shakhriyar Mamedyarov admitting to having been involved in pre-arranged draws. ...
On Monday, FIDE presidential candidate Georgios Makropoulos announced his ticket. The deputy president on his ticket is the well-known organizer Malcolm Pein, who told Chess.com he "would be interested" in running for president in 2022. The FIDE...
On Sunday, Wesley So won his first-ever classical game against Magnus Carlsen and shook up the standings at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. Together with Levon Aronian he is now half a point behind the world champion, bu...
Fabiano Caruana is back at 50 percent thanks to a good win over Sergey Karjakin today at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. As a result, Magnus Carlsen's lead increased back to a full point. This Saturday started with the sad ne...
Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian won their games in round four of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. Both defeated the Gruenfeld defense, against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov respectively. Update: On Satur...
Ding Liren fell off a bicycle before winning a cooking contest with Vishy Anand and then learned in the hospital that he has a fractured hip. Ding likely won't play more games in the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. Update: after surgery on Frid...
Magnus Carlsen increased his lead to a full point with a convincing win over Levon Aronian today. The other four games in round three of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament ended in draws. With his two wins and one draw, a tournam...
The third edition of Chess.com's Speed Chess Championship brings back 16 of the world's best blitz ballers, but only 14 will be invited to the bracket. The remaining two have to earn their way in via two qualifiers. The Speed Chess season kicks ...
It took just 2.5 hours for all games to finish in draws in round two of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway. Magnus Carlsen retained his half-point lead. It was one of those days. Most round-robin tournaments have at le...
As the only winner of the round, Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana on day one of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway. Caruana was scratching and clawing for every inch, but had to resign after 77 moves in a queen en...
Wesley So won the Altibox Norway Chess opening blitz tournament on Sunday in Stavanger. "Totally unexpected, I suppose," the American GM said. "Everyone expected Magnus to dominate again, like last year." After ending his work with his f...
Despite bringing top players Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vishy Anand, the team of Baden-Baden scored only a narrow 4.5-3.5 victory against Solingen to clinch its 12th Bundesliga title in 13 years. The playoff between Baden-B...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com acquires the Komodo chess engine and launches Komodo Monte Carlo with a probability search similar to AlphaZero. Palo Alto, Calif., May 24, 2018—Chess.com has acquired the powerful computer chess engine K...
On Sunday, the sixth edition of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament begins in Stavanger, Norway. The field, topped by Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, has eight out of the world's top 10 players. The participants list has eight of t...
The 2018 African Individual Chess Championship was a walk in the park for Egyptian GM Bassem Amin, the only African player to ever reach a rating of 2700. He won the tournament for the fifth time. Amin ended the main section of th...
Besides our regular prize fund, there's something very special to win in our next Titled Tuesday tournament, on Tuesday, June 5: The best male and best female player will earn an expenses-paid spot in the Chess.com Isle of Man International. ...
Two weeks after his success at the U.S. championship, Sam Shankland won another tournament: the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba. With a score of 7.5/10 and a 2829 performance rating, the American grandmaster entered the world's top 30. ...
Ju Wenjun is the new women's world champion. She drew with reigning champion Tan Zhongyi in the final game of the women's world championship in Chongqing today to set the final score at 5.5-4.5. It was a tense final game in a tens...
After two tense draws in games eight and nine, Tan Zhongyi will need to win the final match game on Friday to secure a playoff at the women's world championship. Ju Wenjun missed near wins in both games. After five deci...
On May 4, FIDE transferred its money to two fiduciary accounts after the Swiss bank UBS had closed its account at the start of the month. This was revealed by FIDE's treasurer on Sunday. It took the World Chess Federation two weeks, but finally ...
