Saint Louis University (SLU) has won its second straight college title after dismantling the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) by an 11.5-4.5 margin in the Final of the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season. A 3.5/4 MVP performa...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen escaped with just two minor pieces against Danish GM Jonas Bjerre's queen to help struggling Norway to a second win in a row, while top-seed Azerbaijan is in freefall, symbolized by GM Teimour Radjabov losing in 19 ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed first place in Bullet Brawl and won $400 for the second week in a row after accruing a winning score of 242. During the two-hour arena, the 67 wins, four draws, and eight losses for Nakamura meant that he was abl...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
ChessKid Stars, IM-elect Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match. Starting off with a three-game winning streak,...
The London Chess Classic will return with its 13th edition this December in a field headed by Indian prodigy GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The event could potentially be decisive for the 18-year-old's hunt for a Candidates spot. The return of the flagshi...
GM Ray Robson leads the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 11/18 in the rapid segment. 3/6 was enough for Robson to maintain the lead on Thursday, but GM Fabiano Caruana, who scored 4/6 on day three, looms one point shy of the lead, ...
GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 to secure her spot in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. The hotly contested 22-game match saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one point at the end of each ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the newest addition to our lineup of athlete chess bots, the Spanish tennis phenom Carlos Alcaraz. You can challenge the young prodigy on our Play Computer page. But beware: Alcaraz will bring to the che...
GM Ray Robson scored a crucial win over GM Alireza Firouzja in round six of the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on the white side of the King's Indian Defense: Makogonov Variation on Wednesday. Robson entered the sole lead thanks to day-one l...
GM Vincent Keymer celebrated his 19th birthday with a win over Armenia's GM Haik Martirosyan that gave Germany the sole lead after round five of the 2023 European Team Chess Championship and took the young star up to world number-17 on the live ra...
After standing for nearly three years, the record for the highest blitz rating on Chess.com (previously 3332) has twice been beaten by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura posted new rating highs of 3334 and 3336 while streaming live on Kick on Monday and...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk advances to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating IM Vaishali Rameshbabu 13-8. She will play GM Hou Yifan in the Semifinals on Thursday. The "Chess Queen," who's also participatin...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his first Titled Tuesday in over a month in the first tournament of November 14, while GM Arjun Erigaisi won his first ever in the late event. Both scored 9.5 points out of 11. Nakamura, coming off a peak record-breaking 333...
Finally, it comes down to this. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, the two biggest names in chess, go head-to-head with the top players of 2023 as Chess.com’s $2 million Champions Chess Tour reaches its grand finale next month. For ...
Clinical wins over GMs Wesley So and Jeffery Xiong have left GM Le Quang Liem in the sole lead on 5/6 at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of play. The start would have been a perfect 6/6 if not for a mistake that cost him...
GM Kateryna Lagno moves on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating WGM Priyanka Nutakki 17.5-4.5. She will play GM Harika Dronavalli in the Semifinals on Friday. Priyanka got off to a fantastic start b...
The All-India Chess Federation (AICF) has announced a massive financial boost to Indian stars GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and IM Vaishali Rameshbabu as they prepare for the journey towards the World Championship title in April...
Please note that the Pro Chess League has been discontinued. Read the official announcement here. It’s nearly time—the most electrifying team event in chess, the worldwide Pro Chess League (PCL), has been confirmed for 2024. Chess....
Poland and Germany are the only teams on a perfect 6/6 match points after three rounds of the Open section of the 2023 European Team Chess Championship, and face a showdown in round four. GM Magnus Carlsen escaped with a draw in round two and won ...
GMs Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli move on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after convincingly defeating IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Valentina Gunina, respectively. Hou, the favorite, was actually at a tw...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and Saint Louis University (SLU) both won their quarterfinal playoff matches in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday by hefty margins, owing to standout performances by GM...
GM Mads Andersen took down Super-GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as 2023 European Team Chess Championship favorites Azerbaijan lost to 20th-seed Denmark. World number-one Magnus Carlsen started the event in Budva, Montenegro, with a smooth win over GM Je...
