The Saint Louis Chess Club has delivered another innovative tournament in the Champions Showdown, which started today. Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, and Veselin Topalov are playing a five-day standard, rapid, and blitz ...
The 2016 world chess championship begins tomorrow, and the experts have made their predictions. Every last one of them has picked the reigning world champion GM Magnus Carlsen to retain his title. While GM Sergey Karjakin is a f...
It's prediction time for the big match that starts Friday. Chess.com asked experts from the chess world about their predictions for the match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. The first match game in New York between Carlsen and Karjak...
The European Club Cup has been packed with fighting chess, surprising upsets, and tense matches. After four rounds, only team Alkaloid (fielding 2700s Dmitry Andreikin, Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Jakovenko, Yu Yangyi, and Yury Kryvoruchko) and Medyni...
Several African participants in the Baku Olympiad have experienced financial problems as a result of delayed payments of travel subsidies by FIDE. One player has even sued his chess federation in an attempt to resolve the issue. Beginning w...
UPDATE: Marc Esserman's simul will now take place on Saturday, December 3rd! Please look for Marc's live commentary on chess.com/tv of the games in progress and follow the games live yourself by following username "MEsserman" in live chess. Marc w...
Many chess stars gathered Sunday in the Serbian city of Novi Sad for the 32nd European Chess Club Cup and the 21st European Chess Club Cup for Women. Photo Lennart Ootes. Novi Sad certainly is a chess-minded city. In 1990, while stil...
The much-loved GM Vugar Gashimov had an elite tournament organized in his honor only a few months after his death in early 2014. Now, his native Azerbaijan has honored him in an even more lasting way. The Vugar Gashimov Chess Academy began op...
Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin. Here are all the match details you need to know to follow the coverage on Chess.com. The Facts The world championship match will be held November 10-30 in the Fulton Market building along t...
The Commercial Court of the City of Moscow rejected AGON's claim that Chess24 was not allowed to transmit the moves of the Candidates' Tournament. Agon will appeal that decision. Shortly before the start of the Candidates' Tournam...
The PRO Chess League will not just be a clever name. The two strongest professional chess players on the planet have signed up to play in the inaugural season. World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen will lead the Norway Gnomes, while world number-two ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin is one of the stalwart heroes of Titled Tuesday. He has finished in the money in 14 Tuesdays, but he has previously only won three events. Today, he upped his victory tally to four and garnered his third clear victory...
The 2016 World Championship match will be played between the world number-one and the world number-nine. The November FIDE rating list has Magnus Carlsen on top with an Elo of 2853, whereas Sergey Karjakin is just inside the top 10, with...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Corsica Masters on Sunday by beating Vishy Anand in the final. The rapid tournament also featured Teimour Radjabov and Hou Yifan as well as many other strong grandmasters. Organizer Léo Battes...
Whether it was a coincidence or not, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament and the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival announced their main participants today. World champion Magnus Carlsen will return to Wijk aan Zee once again. Me...
In what is likely the world champion's final public appearance before his title defense, he didn't just sign autographs and pose for pictures. Instead, he popped up from his intensive studying to win another championship. Today GM Magnus Ca...
GMs Alexander Riazantsev and Alexandra Kosteniuk are the winners of this year's Russian Championship Superfinal. Kosteniuk claimed the women's title with a round to spare; Riazantsev decided matters today. Both won a Renault Ka...
I'm excited for Thursday's Blitz Battle Championship match and want to give my appreciation (on behalf of all of Chess.com) to the fans for supporting us! How are we showing our appreciation? During the GM Blitz Battle finals, we ...
In a Superfinal that continues to see a huge number of draws, the 31-year-old grandmaster, Alexander Riazentsev, ended the Superfinals deadlock in round eight. Meanwhile, Alexandra Kosteniuk continues to dominate the women's tournament. ...
In boxing there was Ali vs Frazier; in tennis, Navratilova against Evert. In online chess there is Carlsen vs Nakamura. Although World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and four-time U.S. champion GM Hikaru Nakamura have not rumbl...
GMs Ray Robson and Sam Sevian tied for first place at the 2016 SPICE Cup in St. Louis. Sevian proved to be the strongest in the armageddon playoff and claimed the trophy. The 2016 SPICE Cup Open featured GMs Le Quang Liem, Ray Rob...
Nigel Short won his match with Hou Yifan in Hoogeveen but lost the last game. He cited official regulations that this game should not be calculated for the FIDE ratings. Ivan Sokolov defeated Jorden van Foreest in the other match. Abh...
It's anyone's guess who will win the Russian Championship's Superfinal where, near the half-way point, six players are tied for first place. Today, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Jakovenko, and Evgeny Tomashevsky all joined the leaders....
At half time in Hoogeveen, the experienced grandmasters are on top against their younger opponents. Both Nigel Short and Ivan Sokolov lead their matches 2-1 versus Hou Yifan and Jorden van Foreest respectively. It's too early to write off t...
