Both matches in the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals went to overtime. IM Polina Shuvalova defeated IM Lawrence Trent 14-11 and will face IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in the Final. Between the ebb and flow of ...
Reigning champion GM Fabiano Caruana has successfully defended his title at the 2023 U.S. Championship, clinching the tournament with a round to spare and a 1.5-point lead over the field. The now three-time U.S. champion took a fitting path t...
Chess.com is excited to announce that we will be hosting the 2023 U.S. Collegiate Rapid and Blitz Championships. The rapid championship will be held on October 29 and the blitz championship on November 5. Registration is underway and contin...
IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) traveled to the underworld and back in the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinal on Monday. He ultimately won his tumultuous match vs. IM Greg Shahade 13-11. After incurring a three-poin...
GM Simon Williams has been found liable by the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman in the U.K. and ordered to repay over £730,000 (currently roughly $890k) to a pension scheme of which he was the sole trustee. The popular 43-year-old British g...
In the heart of Budapest at Judit Polgar's ninth Global Chess Festival 2023, the Hungarian duo, Team Mighty Fox, claimed victory in the festival's invitational triathlon event, bagging $4,000 in prize money in the process. The winning team, comp...
Chess.com’s top event for women, the $70,000 Julius Baer Women’s Speed Chess Championship, is back next month and this time with a big-name sponsor and six of the strongest players on the planet. Defending champion GM Kateryna Lagno ...
GM Fabiano Caruana cemented his lead by defeating GM Hans Niemann—the player who's been chasing him since round four—on day nine of the 2023 U.S. Championship. Though Caruana is a full point ahead, GMs Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez, and...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and Saint Louis University (SLU) convincingly won their matchups against Yale University and The University of Chicago (UChicago), respectively, in the fourth week of the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegi...
GM Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna is the first sole leader of the 2023 Qatar Masters after beating world number-eight Gukesh Dommaraju to move to 4.5/5. No fewer than 12 players are half a point back, including GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Vaishali R, who...
Three wins on the fly for GM Daniel Naroditsky in October's Bullet Brawls have left the American commentator in clear second on the all-time leaderboard with seven wins and closing quickly on GM Hikaru Nakamura, who has won the two-hour arena 10 t...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Saleh Salem all won in round four of the 2023 Qatar Masters to join a seven-way tie for first place on 3.5/4. GM Magnus Carlsen languishes a point back in 29th place after again being involved in the...
GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to a point, even while he let GM Sam Shankland off the hook in the eighth round of the 2023 U.S. Championship. In the U.S. Women's Championship, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova continued ...
Moves were delayed 15 minutes and watches outlawed as world number-one Magnus Carlsen's tweets had an instant impact on round three of the 2023 Qatar Masters. The drama was limited on the board; GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were frustra...
IMs Polina Shuvalova and Lawrence Trent filled the last two spots of the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after, respectively, winning Groups C and D. The other two semifinalists are IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka Gotha...
Each on a three-game winning streak, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova have furthered their lead in the U.S. Women's Championship after seven rounds. They are now 1.5 points ahead of the field. Both leaders won the...
IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) advance to the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after winning Groups A and B, respectively, on Thursday. Shahade's victory was a close call, and it only came after he ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen confessed he was "completely crushed" by 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov in round two of the 2023 Qatar Masters, but afterward blamed a failure to concentrate on his opponent wearing a watch in contraventio...
It is the dark shadow that stalks chess—the failure of senior figures in the game to tackle its shameful gender gap and a recent stream of shocking sexual misconduct allegations. Chess, it is said, has to do better. Now, a new group has fo...
At the halfway point, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova are starting to run away with the U.S. Women's Championship. With a second win in a row and four victories total for each, they are a full point ahead of the field. IM Alice ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen won a 23-move miniature as he set out to defend his title in the 2023 Qatar Masters, a tournament last held in 2015. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were among the star names to win in round one, but GMs Gukesh D...
The victors of Titled Tuesday on October 10 were a long-time contender and a first-time winner: GM Dmitry Andreikin took home his 16th victory in the early tournament while GM Eduardo Iturrizaga, who made waves earlier this year by reaching Divisi...
GM Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival, now in its ninth edition since starting in 2007, is one of the true highlights of the chess calendar. Held in Budapest, Hungary, and also online, it attracts thousands of chess fans from around the world fo...
Nearly every single game was decisive in the 2023 U.S. Championship on Tuesday. The frontrunners have begun to distinguish themselves as they accumulate victories. GM Fabiano Caruana won a third game in a row, gaining a winning position vs. G...
