Tuesday's Speed Chess Championship Qualifier 2 (with two more on April 18 and 25!) featured one of the most remarkable finales in Chess.com's history as Hikaru Nakamura entered the last round a half-point ahead of the field but ineligible to quali...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is still the FIDE president, but all major powers are in the hands of deputy president Georgios Makropoulos. Yesterday's extraordinary presidential board meeting in Athens, described as "peaceful" by attendants, furthe...
It turns out, the PRO Chess League was just the warmup. After winning the MVP award last month for scoring the highest league performance rating, today GM Wesley So continued his rapid brilliance in the Monday playoff for the 2017 U.S....
On her ninth attempt, it was mate in nine. WGM Sabina Foisor's elegant winning combination continues the legacy of a legend. Less than three months removed from the unexpected loss of her mother, a five-time Romanian Women's Champion, ...
Stop me if you've heard this one: "A 20-something, a 30-something, and a 40-something lead the U.S. Championship..." It's not the setup to a joke, but it is the setup to a unpredictable finish at the 2017 U.S. Championship, which (may) conclude ...
On Chess.com's Tactics Trainer you can solve by the theme: e.g. "attacks on f2/f7." GM Wesley So doesn't need the practice. A year removed from the scintillating cruncher 20. Nxf7!, at today's 2017 U.S. championship round nine, he one-upped...
An amateur player was suspected of cheating and was removed from the Dubai Open. The Indian player Jeel Shah, 21 years old and rated 1764, was removed from the tournament after he was suspected of cheating. The organizers didn't provide a c...
The players' fortunes at the 2017 U.S. championship have resembled more of a bingo hopper than any linear path. Just when you think one player has the best trajectory to the title, everything is thrown into chaos again. Round eight of the tourna...
GM Arthur Bisguier, one of America's greatest chess players of the 20th century, died on Wednesday at the age of 87 while in a care facility in Framingham, Massachusetts. The cause of death was respiratory failure. Cover photo of GM Arthur Bisgu...
In January, GM Babu Lalith beat a reigning world champion in five moves when GM Hou Yifan played a protest game in Gibraltar. Surely that's a record for brevity, right? Well, today at the 2017 U.S. championship, GM Alex Shabalov only needed four...
GM Sergey Grigoriants was a surprise sole winner in Chess.com's inaugural April Speed Chess Championship Qualifier. With 8.5/10, he bested 231 players (a new record) including GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vladimir Fedoseev, Georg Meier, Evgeny Tomashevsk...
Round six of the 2017 U.S. championship was a countdown of sorts: three, two, one, zero. The world number three's gap to the world number two was one point going into the day (while the ladies played zero draws!). That's more of a chasm tha...
In a new letter sent to all chess federations, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today announced a $30 million investment in chess. Meanwhile Jorge Vega, continental president for America and an important ally of Ilyumzhinov in earlier electi...
Is Wesley So the strongest player in the world? He's got a big mountain to climb named Carlsen, but every day he makes his case a little more compelling though he would never say it out loud. To recap: he hasn't lost a classical game since Jul...
Want to qualify for a match against Magnus Carlsen (or another super grandmaster)? You can, this month! April will see not one, but four Titled Tuesday tournaments. These blitz tournaments will serve as qualifiers for the 2017 Chess.co...
GM Ding Liren convincingly won the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters in Shenzhen, China. The 24-year-old grandmaster from Wenzhou finished a full point ahead of GMs Anish Giri and Peter Svidler, who finished their tournament...
The first Sharjah Masters ended in a six-way tie for first place. Local GM Salem Saleh finished with five straight wins to reach 7.0/9, the same score as GMs Wang Hao, Baskaran Adhiban, Martyn Kravtsiv, Yuryi Kryvoruchko and S.P. Sethuraman. Pho...
There are no longer easy title defenses in St. Louis. GM Gata Kamsky used to win U.S. championship titles in bunches earlier this decade, but those days are over. Even the Sinquefield Cup, also held in St. Louis, has produced four d...
The "big three," as they are commonly known in American chess, are seen collectively as prohibitive favorites to win the 2017 U.S. Championship, which began yesterday. It's early in St. Louis, but two of them validated that sentiment, while the ...
After six rounds it's GM Ding Liren who leads the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters in Shenzhen, China. GM Anish Giri, who missed a win vs GM Peter Svidler, is in second place. Three more rounds have been played in Shenzhe...
Even though Kirsan Ilyumzhinov himself denies that he is stepping down as FIDE president, FIDE officials continue to claim that he has announced his resignation. At a press conference today in Moscow, Ilyumzhinov emphasised that he'll co...
Top-rated Webster University has won its fifth consecutive President's Cup title, beating out the three other invited teams from Texas Tech, St. Louis University, and University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in an event also known as the "Final Fo...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov denies that he will step down as FIDE president. Today the FIDE website brought this remarkable news, which was confirmed to Chess.com by the executive director of FIDE, Nigel Freeman. However, Berik Balgabaev, Il...
GM Wesley So carried his team all season in the first year of the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) League. Today, his teammates sealed the win. The top St. Louis Arch Bishops player won his first three games in the championship match to help...
