Ryan Sanborn, a punter for The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), added his name to a coveted list of gridiron chess champions after making his way to the finals and defeating the top seed, offensive lineman Robert Sweeney, in an overtime ...
Chess.com will be present at TwitchCon Las Vegas between October 20-22, with a range of exciting activities and events planned for members of the chess community. The upcoming edition of TwitchCon will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Cent...
The I’M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship (IMSCC), the event that pits your favorite players who've not (yet) made GM, is back for its 2023 edition this week—and we can't wait until it kicks off on Thursday, October 12 at 11 a.m. ET/ 1...
Freedom Holding, the Kazakh financial firm that has sponsored some of FIDE's major events in the last year and is run by billionaire Timur Turlov, is now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to CNBC. The American busi...
It started with a Chess.com account during the pandemic. Now 9-year-old FM Faustino Oro from Argentina has made history as the youngest player ever to score an IM norm. The prodigy dubbed the "Messi of Chess" by Argentinian media made headlines ...
Offerspill Chess Club was crowned as the champions in the open division of the recently concluded 2023 European Chess Club Cup (ECCC) after scoring six match wins and a draw against some of the world's top club teams in Durres, Albania. Led by G...
Defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana captured the sole lead with three points from four games after an 80-move grinding endgame win over GM Dariusz Swiercz in the 2023 U.S. Championship. Overnight leader GM Abhimanyu Mishra was defeated by G...
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) became the first team to topple the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday after a tight tussle that ended 9-7 in favor of the Texan t...
GM Abhimanyu Mishra shot into the sole lead on 2.5 points by defeating GM Ray Robson in the third round of the 2023 U.S. Championship, while also breaking into the 2600 Elo rating club, with the added distinction of being the youngest player to br...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won October's first Bullet Brawl by a convincing margin of 44 points on Saturday, one week after claiming his fifth title. The U.S. GM's score of 252 was more than enough to secure the $400 first prize ahead of the second-plac...
GMs Hans Niemann and Abhimanyu Mishra have taken the lead at the U.S. Championships after round two. Niemann came within inches of blundering and running out of time but fought back to defeat the previous leader, GM Sam Sevian. Contrastingly, Mish...
IM Nazi Paikidze and GM Sam Sevian are the sole leaders after the opening day of the U.S. Championships in St. Louis. Paikidze scored the only victory in the women's division, defeating FM Ashritha Eswaran in a tactical slugfest that featured th...
Parents and mentors often believe that girls have a lower potential in chess than boys, a bias that is more pronounced among those who think chess success requires brilliance. These findings, the first large-scale evidence of bias against youth fe...
You can't keep GM Hikaru Namakura down for long. He won the early Titled Tuesday on October 3, his first since a perfect score on August 22 and his 57th overall since October 2020. Nakamura then nearly won the late event as well, but it ended up g...
The influential Saint Louis Chess Club admits they've "remained silent for too long" and says that they "should have done more to address the allegations" of sexual misconduct against GM Alejandro Ramirez. 229 days after two-time U.S. Wome...
Anastasios Koukas and Michael Duke emerged at the top of the 2000+ section in the qualifiers for the ChessPunks Champs 2023. In the 1700-1999 division, EvertonEejit clinched the first qualifier with a round to spare while Tushar Anand won the se...
Athletes don't stop competing when their game ends! As Chess.com continues to engage with colleges and universities to bring the game of chess to more and more campuses, we've also found that football players seem to love the rich game of chess as...
A destructive performance by the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) has placed the three-GM team atop the lead after two weeks of play. Board two GM Mikhail Antipov surged to 4/4 while Mizzou's board one GM G...
It's the spookiest month of the year, October! To celebrate, we're re-launching five new versions of some of our most popular bots. Go to our Play Computer page to battle against Martin, Filip, Laura, Isla, and Morphy in all of their new glory.&nb...
GM Daniel Naroditsky was crowned as the winner of September's last Bullet Brawl after amassing a score of 288, 54 points ahead of the second-placed GM Hikaru Nakamura and third-placed GM Pranav Venkatesh. The total of 78 wins, three draws, an...
Chess.com is excited to announce our 2024 events calendar! 2023 has been a year full of groundbreaking formats and marquee tournaments. Recently, the 2023 Speed Chess Championship once again brought together GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamur...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has pulled off the mission impossible of beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen, not in just one match but two, to win the 2023 AI Cup and qualify for the Champions Chess Tour Finals in Toronto. "Maxime was strong and I ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was again in sparkling form as he defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 2-0 to earn another shot at GM Magnus Carlsen in Friday's 2023 AI Cup Grand Final. Nepomniachtchi had earlier knocked out GM Anish Giri 1.5-0.5. GM Vladim...
"This is the sort of thing that happens when you play Sicilians in every game," said GM Magnus Carlsen after four fighting Sicilians left his 2023 AI Cup Winners Final against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave level at 2-2. The world number-one clinched t...
