18-year-old rising Indian star IM Divya Deshmukh has boldly called out sexism in the chess world following her participation in Tata Steel Chess, expressing frustration with comments about her appearance. Deshmukh finished 12th with 4.5 points i...
GM Wei Yi became the winner of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Sunday after winning a thrilling four-player tiebreak that also involved GMs Anish Giri, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. For the first time, Wei entered the world'...
IM Veselin Pantev, a prominent figure in the Bulgarian chess community, succumbed to cancer last month, leaving behind his grieving wife, WGM Adriana Nikolova, their 4-year-old daughter, and his other two children. On December 28, at the age ...
In the wake of a 2024 Candidates qualification cycle plagued with tumult and controversy, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced new regulations aimed at "enhancing the competitive landscape, encouraging player participation, and ensuring...
The Saint Louis and Webster University teams ascended to the top of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) leaderboard after winning their second-week matchups in contrasting styles. SLU relished a landslide 15-1 victory over the Prague University...
GM Hikaru Nakamura secured $400 and his 17th Bullet Brawl title after putting on a tactical exhibition during Saturday's arena, adding to his Titled Tuesday win earlier in the week. Scoring 67.5/73, Nakamura accrued 246 points and was able to outl...
After a wild round on Saturday, there is a five-way tie for first place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters group. With GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Anish Giri, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and GM Wei Yi all on 7.5/12, chances ...
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After beating GM Ju Wenjun in round 11, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov went into the final weekend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament as the sole leader in the Masters group. A spectacular day of chess saw lots of fascinating games, including a bri...
India’s greatest ever chess player, the legendary GM Viswanathan Anand, has signed as a brand ambassador for Chess.com. The five-time world champion will bring his incredible knowledge and experience to the world’s biggest chess plat...
With three rounds to go, GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Nodirbek Abdusattorov lead the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters. Whereas Gukesh defeated GM Alexander Donchenko fairly smoothly, Abdusattorov needed over six hours to beat GM Max Warmerda...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took home Titled Tuesday on January 23 with 9.5 points. After Nakamura held tiebreaks over GM Wesley So and GM Vladimir Fedoseev, Duda became the first outright winner of 2024 (with seven people tied be...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won their white games in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's ninth round to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in the lead. GM Max Warmerdam lost in just about the worst possible way to G...
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GM Alireza Firouzja's topsy-turvy Tata Steel Chess Tournament continued on Sunday with another bounce-back victory, this time good enough to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in first place. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is not in that group any...
Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia has earned his place in the history books by becoming the first player under the age of nine to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. The chess world has recently been witnessing a surge in children scoring e...
The 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) kicked off on Saturday with two telling matchups. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley gained vengeance vs. their UT counterparts in Dallas, led by top scorer IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux with 3.5/4. In t...
With six rounds to go, the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament is wide open again after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Anish Giri on Saturday. In doing so, the 19-year-old Uzbek grandmaster caught Giri in first place. Soon after, GM Gukesh Dommaraj...
With the 2024 Candidates Tournament mere months away, GM Hikaru Nakamura has shown no signs of reducing his online tournament participation, taking January's third Bullet Brawl with a commanding score of 269. Amassing 72 wins in two hours, Nakamur...
According to many (including GM Magnus Carlsen), GM Garry Kasparov is still the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in chess. Today, it is exactly 25 years since Kasparov played his most famous and possibly best ever game, against GM Veselin Topalov in Wi...
GM Alireza Firouzja is trailing GM Anish Giri by half a point again after Friday's sixth round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. While the tournament leader missed several chances to beat GM Parham Maghsoodloo, Firouzja did score the full p...
FM Brandon Burrows achieved his first IM norm by winning one game and making nine draws that lasted an average of 10 moves. Now the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has invalidated the Las Vegas tournament and U.S. Chess has confirmed an investigatio...
ChessKid, the scholastic extension of Chess.com aimed at a younger target audience, has reached the milestone of 10,000,000 individual child accounts. To celebrate the achievement, ChessKid is offering free access to its Gold membership fe...
It may not be a record, but it is still a major achievement: the world has a new youngest grandmaster—14-year-old Ukrainian prodigy GM Ihor Samunenkov. The teenager’s title has been confirmed by the world chess federation FIDE this m...
