GM Anish Giri caught GM Alireza Firouzja in first place in round three of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament Masters. The Dutchman defeated GM Alexander Donchenko and saw his compatriot GM Max Warmerdam hold Firouzja to a draw. As in the fi...
Tired of playing the same opening every time, but don't know where to start? Here's a great new way to expand your repertoire and get comfortable with different openings: Opening Roulette! Aimed specifically at chess improvers seeking to broaden...
After scoring 7/7 in Rouen to secure qualification for the upcoming Candidates tournament, GM Alireza Firouzja has continued his winning ways in Wijk aan Zee. The French-Iranian grandmaster on Sunday defeated GM Parham Maghsoodloo and is the only ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk scooped up his fourth $400 Bullet Brawl win and moved into third place on the all-time winner's list after scoring 227 points during 2024's second edition. GM Daniel Naroditsky (223) and IM Yoseph Taher (191) were the main cha...
Black was more than OK in Saturday's opening round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament as GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Wei Yi all started with wins with the black pieces. The Challengers group also saw four de...
Invite your friends over for a chess party because we've got something you'll want to vibe to: SHAREABLE TOURNAMENTS! Now you have the chance to make an Arena or Swiss-tournament-cheese sandwich instantly to share with anyone and everyone! Let's t...
GM Ray Robson did it again, winning his fifth consecutive title at the 2024 Puzzles World Championship. The undisputed G.O.A.T. of Puzzle Rush has won every edition of this tournament since it started in 2020. This seemed to be his toughest year...
The new Champions Chess Tour (CCT) season kicks off this month with the return of the Chessable Masters and a faster format designed to deliver even more exciting action. Chess.com’s premier year-long event is now four main online tourname...
As tradition has it, Chess.com again greeted the new year with our first event, the 2024 Puzzles World Championship. Eight players remain standing after the Puzzle Rush Royale on day one and have earned a minimum of $1,000 with a shot at the $5,00...
GM Valentina Gunina is one of seven Russian women in history to attain the chess grandmaster title. She is a three-time European women's chess champion, a five-time Russian women's chess champion, has won three gold medals with the Russian nationa...
GM Daniil Dubov missed out on tying world number-one Magnus Carlsen for first place in the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2023 after both he and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi got zero points for the knight-moves-only draw they made in round 11. In a 59-min...
The second set of Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024 was won by GMs Eduardo Iturrizaga and Daniil Dubov on January 9. A total of 733 participants in the first tournament was easily the most since Titled Tuesday was split into two tournaments, smas...
GM-elect Vaishali Rameshbabu has clinched one of India's most prestigious awards thanks to her chess prowess, while her brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu has secured new backing from an Indian billionaire. Their maestro trainer GM R.B Ramesh is...
World Champion Ding Liren seems ready and eager to return to the chessboard for his first classical chess tournament in eight months. "I am much better than maybe two or three months ago," he said in an interview with Chess.com, a few days ahead o...
The exceptional feat of eight-year-old Roman Shogdzhiev, triumphing over five grandmasters in the World Rapid and Blitz Championships, earned him praise from his idol, GM Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen's double victory in the recently concluded event i...
Chess has found its way back into the spotlight―this time through the lens of a new female protagonist. Check & Mate, written by New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood, won the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction....
GM Tuan Minh Le started 2024 in style with a victory in one of the most stacked Bullet Brawl arenas ever held. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky, who finished in second and third respectively, were tested by super-GMs Anish Giri, Maxime Va...
GM Magnus Carlsen was included in FIDE's full lineup for the Candidates tournament this week, but in an exclusive interview with Chess.com the former world champion says that he is formally turning down the invitation to play in Toronto. This we...
In video footage from the recently concluded 2023 World Rapid Championship held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Poland's number one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda refused to shake hands with Russian GM Denis Khismatullin before their game in round one. T...
The people have spoken! Over 16,000 voters chose the best games, moves, creators, and all things chess in 2023. Now, it's time for us to reveal the winners of the 2023 Chess.com Awards. GM Magnus Carlsen at the Champions Chess Tour Finals, one...
FM Yosha Iglesias has etched her name in chess history as the first-ever transgender player to fulfill all the requirements for the woman international master title. The title has not been conferred yet and is pending FIDE's approval. The French...
Victory in the first Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024, held January 2, went to two familiar faces. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the early event with 9.5 points and slightly better tiebreakers than GM Magnus Carlsen. Then, GM Hikaru Nakamura sco...
Happy New Year! Ring in 2024 with New Year’s resolutions, new chess goals, and a brand-new set of bots for January. For the first time ever on Chess.com, the 16th undisputed World Chess Champion and number-one player in the world since 2011,...
Titled Tuesdays have already been ramped up massively with the launch of the new Titled Cup, the $100,000 grand prix-style umbrella event to make our weekly tournaments in 2024 even more fierce. But if that isn't enough to get you tuning in on T...
