GM Gukesh Dommaraju defended a slightly inferior endgame successfully against GM Pentala Harikrishna and won the title on tiebreak from GM Arjun Erigaisi after the seventh and final round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Arjun fired on all cylin...
One is perhaps the greatest American chess author, and the other the greatest American chess presenter. Now, only on Chessable, you can learn from late IM Jeremy Silman's renowned classic, How To Reassess Your Chess, in a very special five-star co...
It's a minor surprise that it doesn't happen more often, but GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura were the winners of Titled Tuesday on December 19. Carlsen scored 10/11 in the early event, beating Nakamura by half a point, and in th...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju continued to lead with four points at the end of the sixth and penultimate round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023 after his uneventful draw against GM Pavel Eljanov. GM Arjun Erigaisi continued his best effort to win the tourn...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his second consecutive victory by outwitting GM Sanan Sjugirov, with the black pieces and aggressive play, to jump into the sole lead with three and a half points from five rounds in the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Overn...
Chess.com is excited to announce a new addition to our Insights page! Diamond members can now check out their Opening Insights to see how well they're playing the first stage of the game. It doesn't matter if you're fond of the trusty Queen's Ga...
GM Alexey Sarana's sole first place in the European Rapid Chess Championship 2023 in Zagreb means he's achieved a remarkable triple—winning the European Individual, Team, and Rapid events in the same year. GM David Navara prevented a quadrup...
FM Faustino Oro defeated IM Levy Rozman in the much-awaited edition of ChessKid Stars vs. Streamers: Fausti vs. GothamChess. On Monday, Oro and Rozman proved to be an extremely close matchup. After many lead changes, the prodigy scored a must-win ...
The 2024 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship is now open for registration! Start your 2024 off with the resolution to play lots of chess and join one of the world's largest-ever chess events. What is the Daily Chess Championship? This prest...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his first victory of the tournament over GM Alexandr Predke to join GM Pentala Harikrishna in the lead with two and a half points from four rounds of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Harikrishna looked to be in a spot of ...
GM Leinier Dominguez has pulled out of the Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2023 at the halfway mark, explaining, “I’ve come to a point where I’m simply risking too much if I continue.” The U.S. star travelled to Spai...
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a controversial motion to scrap presidential term limits leaving Arkady Dvorkovich, a former deputy prime minister of Russia, free to run for a third term in 2026. Delegates from 108 national federa...
British chess prodigy WCM Bodhana Sivanandan continues her remarkable chess journey with a sensational result in the European Blitz Championship where she won the prize for the best woman player. In late October, the eight-year-old prodigy made ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi showed his defensive skills in a slightly difficult middlegame position to outwit GM Alexandr Predke later in a long endgame, scoring his maiden win of the event in the third round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Erstwhile joi...
FIDE could be on the verge of scrapping its presidential term limit and allowing Russian incumbent Arkady Dvorkovich to run for four more years in office. The world chess federation's current rules—brought in as an election promise by Dvor...
Bullet Brawl's undisputed king, GM Hikaru Nakamura, secured his 15th title and $1,000 in the latest edition of the tournament, finishing on 260 points with 71 wins, two draws, and eight losses. A 27-game streak, which included wins over chess pers...
Legendary fighting game champion SonicFox is best known for delivering brutal beatdowns in Mortal Kombat, but they're also a force to be reckoned with over the chess board—and now they've got an official Chess.com bot to prove it! This for...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals on Saturday. He defeated GM Wesley So 2.5-1.5 and shared that the tour "came full circle" in the final game where he cracked So's super-solid opening line. Carlsen wo...
GM Sanan Sjugirov defended against ambitious play by GM Pavel Eljanov in the middlegame to score a patient victory and jumped into a joint lead with one and a half points after the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. He has joined GM P...
GM Magnus Carlsen is one set away from winning his fourth title and $200,000 at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. On day one of the Title Match, he defeated GM Wesley So with the black pieces in game three, squeezing water from stone in the ro...
GMs Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov started with wins over GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo respectively in two high-pressure, error-prone games to share the lead with a point apiece after the first round of the Chennai Grand Master...
It’s the one-on-one showdown between “the internet’s chess teacher” and one of the rising stars of the game known in his homeland as the “Lionel Messi of chess”. Can Brooklyn-born IM Levy Rozman, aka GothamChe...
With the holiday season nearly upon us, this year, Chess.com is calling on all chess fans to be part of a very special campaign that will help bring education and the joy of chess to up to 5,000 children. Chess For A Cause is Chess.com's new ini...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So are the last players standing at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. They will meet for the Title Match to battle for the $200,000 first prize. Carlsen knocked out his 2018 world championship nemesis GM Fa...
