More than 40 years after the BBC first dipped its programming toe into chess with The Master Game, the network has returned this month with Chess Masters: The Endgame, which airs at 8 p.m. GMT on Monday nights. One of the main differences between ...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams have worked their way back to the Collegiate ...
A solid draw with the black pieces vs. GM Fabiano Caruana was all GM Hikaru Nakamura needed to win The American Cup Grand Final on Sunday in St. Louis. Nakamura won the $75,000 first prize plus a $15,000 Champion's Bracket bonus, with $55,000...
GM Anna Muzychuk's fourth win, over GM Elisabeth Paehtz, saw her catch GM Zhu Jiner in the lead going into the final round of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix. GMs Harika Dronavalli, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and Mariya Muzychuk are within s...
GM Hikaru Nakamura started the The American Cup Grand Final with a win in the first classical game vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. Nakamura needs a draw with Black on Sunday to clinch the $75,000 first prize. After entering the Women's American Cup...
GM Andrew Tang has become the third player in Bullet Brawl history to secure a hat trick after the American topped the 200-player titled arena on Saturday with a score of 255 points. He seized the $400 first prize for the fifth time this year...
GM Zhu Jiner has regained the sole lead in the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix after brilliantly beating IM Divya Deshmukh while GM Anna Muzychuk missed a tactical blow that gave IM Olga Badelka her first win. GM Nana Dzagnidze scored the day...
A day after losing the Champions Final, GM Fabiano Caruana earned his spot in The American Cup Grand Final after all. Caruana beat GM Levon Aronian on Friday in a blitz playoff in the Elimination Bracket Final and will now play GM Hikaru Naka...
GM Harika Dronavalli pounced on a late mistake by GM Nana Dzagnidze to recover from what she called a "heartbreaking loss" in the previous round of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix. Harika is joined a point behind leader GM Anna Muzyc...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Freestyle Friday on March 21 in what was the closest yet of the nine tournaments so far, but ultimately, his second win following one on January 31. And while Bortnyk lost in the final round, which created a five-way tie f...
What was intended to be a harmless joke turned into a firestorm, racking up over 50 million views and becoming Chess.com's most viral post ever. Chess.com's social media accounts have nearly nine million followers across all platforms. They aim ...
Chess.com’s Chief Chess Officer, IM Danny Rensch, hosted the latest installment of State of Chess on Thursday. He was joined by several colleagues to share exciting updates, including the highly anticipated return of PogChamps. The three-h...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen will play the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, while 50-year-old former world number-one Veselin Topalov returns to top-level chess to play the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. Other wildcards announced for ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in blitz tiebreaks to win the Champions Final of The American Cup 2025, which comes with a $15,000 bonus. In the Women's American Cup Champions Final, IM Alice Lee survived a dead-lost endgame ag...
GM Hans Niemann said he has withdrawn from a previously agreed-upon polygraph test, popularly known as a "lie detector test," following his loss against GM Daniil Dubov, citing the Russian's "disrespectful" behavior. [Updated March 21, 2025...
After an 18-move draw, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are tied ½-½ in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. In Open Elimination, however, we saw GMs Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez eliminated, respectively, by G...
GM Anna Muzychuk is the sole leader of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on the rest day after a time-trouble blunder by IM Stavroula Tsolakidou led to a third win in a row. GM Elisabeth Paehtz grabbed the day's only other win after GM Hari...
The North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) is coming to Chess.com this spring. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess competition in the world and includes some of the world's best-known companies as well as small businesses! What Is ...
GM Mamikon Gharibyan and GM Denis Lazavik are your winners for the March 18 Titled Tuesday tournaments, both winning outright by half a point. Lazavik came that same half-point from sweeping the day, finishing second in the early tournament and th...
We're excited to announce that Chess.com is now hosting the vast majority of games on our platform on the Realtime Chess Network, the only globally distributed chess server, which we've been developing over the last four years. This means many pla...
American numbers one and two, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, will clash in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. Nakamura advanced after scoring a classical win with Black against GM Leinier Dominguez, while it took Caruana ...
GM Anna Muzychuk's second win in a row, against IM Divya Deshmukh, saw her catch GM Zhu Jiner in the lead of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 3/4. It was a day of four wins for White, among them GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Harika Dronav...
We're excited to announce the next installment of State of Chess, our live show where we share all the exciting things that we've been working on and what's coming next. It's also the place where you can ask questions directly to us, so we can ans...
After two draws in the Open Champions Semifinals of the The American Cup 2025, no one was able to break ahead. There was more action in the Open Elimination Round 1, where GM Sam Sevian eliminated GM Ray Robson in blitz tiebreaks 3-1 and GM Wesley...
