A little more than three years ago, in December of 2022, Chess.com reached 100 million members. It was a huge milestone at the time, and it still is, but now we are celebrating an even bigger number: a quarter of a billion. It's the 250,000,000 ch...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Lorenzo Lodici, and Vasif Durarbayli lead the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 3.5 points apiece after four rounds. It's nearly the halfway point of the nine-round tournament, and there are no fewer than nine players in the chasi...
Defending Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram looked to be in trouble again in round two of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters, but GM Hans Niemann couldn't find a hidden winning resource on low time and slumped to defeat. It was a similar story...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat Defending Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram in round one of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters to oust GM Vincent Keymer as world number-four. Keymer fell to GM Jorden van Foreest for a second event in a row, whil...
The lineup for Norway Chess 2026 has been finalized, setting the stage for another clash between world number-one Magnus Carlsen and reigning World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. The 14th edition of the prestigious tournament will take place p...
We're excited to announce that the Chess.com Global Championship is now called the Chess.com Open! The event, which starts on March 14, is set to be the world's largest open tournament. With $250,000 in prizes and up to three direct spots to the n...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the February 24 edition of Titled Tuesday to wrap up the winter split with his second win of the month, becoming one of eight qualifiers into the Chess.com Open. Vachier-Lagrave won in the final round to reach 9.5 poi...
Netflix officially announced on Tuesday that its highly anticipated documentary on the 2022 scandal, involving GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, will premiere on the platform on April 7, 2026. Untold: Chess Mates revisits one of the most explos...
It's time to put fire on the chessboard in the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship kicks off on March 4 and will feature a $2,500 prize fund. With explosive tactics and incendiary capt...
We're excited to announce the qualification path for this year's most exciting blitz and bullet online event for women. With a $75,000 prize fund, the Women's Speed Chess Championship starts on July 6—but the excitement begins much earlier f...
10-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan scored an incredible 12/13 to reach the Final of the 2026 Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship, but ultimately fell to her English rival FM Supratit Banerjee 3.5-1.5. Banerjee beat another 10-year-old, FM Ashwath...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the second Indian player, alongside GM Nihal Sarin, to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after a dominant performance on Saturday. A 12-game winning streak catapulted Arjun into first place, and he then sealed the $400 f...
FM Vasilios Kasioumis, who was the runner-up last year, returned to win it all in the 2026 Chess.com 3-Check Championship. This year's runner-up IM Toivo Keinanen did well to win the Grand Final 3-1, but he wasn't able to win the Reset. Kasioumis ...
With brand-new stakes introduced by the announcement of the Freestyle Friday Championship, the victory that GM Oleksandr Bortnyk earned in the February 20 edition of Freestyle Friday gave him a jumpstart toward potentially playing in the 2027 FIDE...
GM Fabiano Caruana followed up on his Titled Tuesday victory this week by becoming the first-ever winner of two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on the same day. He won the first tournament on tiebreaks over GM Matthias Bluebaum. He kept up his form by wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will have White against his U.S. rival GM Hikaru Nakamura when the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament begins in five weeks on March 29. The other first-round pairings are GMs Javokhir Sindarov vs. Andrey Esipenko, Matthias Bluebaum...
GM Jan Timman, a former world number-two, multiple world championship candidate, nine-time Dutch national champion, prolific author, honorary editor of New in Chess magazine, and endgame studies specialist, passed away on Wednesday after battling ...
Chess.com and Freestyle Chess are proud to launch the Freestyle Friday Championship, a brand-new, season-long race that will award a direct spot in the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship and in the 2027 FIDE Women's Freestyle Chess World...
You can now get coached by two of India's most recognized chess personalities, GM Viswanathan Anand and IM Tania Sachdev! Pick them as your coach and enjoy their voices and commentary every time you use Game Review, solve puzzles, and more! As...
On February 14, 15-year-old American GM Andy Woodward broke the Chess.com bullet rating record, previously held by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura set the previous record of 3570 on November 11, 2020, meaning that it stood for more than five years. W...
You can now play chess against iconic musician, artist, and activist Yoko Ono on Chess.com—while also experiencing her art! Challenge the Yoko bot and play with an exclusive all-white chess set based on Yoko Ono's "Play It By Trust" artwor...
GM Fabiano Caruana finished just ahead of GM Denis Lazavik to win Titled Tuesday on February 17, after Caruana defeated GM Wesley So in the final round but Lazavik only made a draw with GM Hikaru Nakamura (in a rematch of the 3rd Place Match in th...
They didn't make the Finals last season, but the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) has added a new player and appears ready to regain the championship form that they displayed in 2024. IM Amilal Munkhdalai came from Mongolia to join the sch...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen has now won 21 official FIDE world championship titles after defeating GM Fabiano Caruana in the Final of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship. We take a look back at the intense three-day event in Weiss...
