GM Magnus Carlsen can now say that he has won every significant classical chess title that he's set his sights on. The five-time world champion won his first World Cup crown by defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 1.5-0.5 in the rapid tiebreaks ...
The last classical games of the 2023 FIDE World Cup could not have been more different from each other. In the final between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the drawn outcome was predicted as early as move five, while in the th...
After GM Hikaru Nakamura scored the first 11/11 in Titled Tuesday history on August 17, 2021, it took 98 weeks for someone to repeat the feat until GM Magnus Carlsen finally did so on July 4, 2023. But audiences only had to wait seven weeks f...
Go ahead ChessPunk, make my day! Now that the superb PogChamps 5 tournament is over, Chess.com is delighted to announce another exciting amateur event kicking off next month. ChessPunks Champs is the new PogChamps-style event for all of us norma...
Universally recognized as the single greatest woman to ever play chess, in outlets ranging from the New York Times in 1997 to Chess.com in 2021, GM Judit Polgar is now ready to share the best games of her career as you've never seen them before......
Neither player made progress toward their first World Cup victory as GM Magnus Carlsen held GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to a draw in the first game of the 2023 FIDE World Cup final. A well-prepared Praggnanandhaa posed some problems to the ...
GMs Yu Yangyi and Vidit Gujrathi have made it into the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after claiming two spots in the first Qualifier on Tuesday. Yu finished second in the Swiss on day one and, on the second day, w...
Indian sensation GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will play world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in the final of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after the 18-year-old defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 in a semifinal decided by a single tiebreak win. GM...
GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...
Eighty-three wins, five draws, and three losses was the astounding scorecard posted by GM Hikaru Nakamura in August's third Bullet Brawl, resulting in a record-breaking 313 score. The rampage, which saw him finish 73 points ahead of the second-pla...
After surviving 12 games of classical games against some of the world's best players without a single loss, GM Nijat Abasov finally fell at the hands of GM Magnus Carlsen on Saturday at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. Though the world number one secured ...
Drama, plot twists, and illegal moves marked the live PogChamps 5 Finals—the first in-person Pog event in history. As the remaining four creators gathered in Los Angeles to play for PogChamps glory, no one could've predicted how the matches ...
Strategy fans take note—a unique star-studded multi-game crossover event that pits big names in chess against stars of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale is coming to Chess.com. IM Levy Rozman and WFM Alexandra Botez, two of the most followed...
FIDE has come under heavy criticism after publishing a new policy that states that transgender women are banned from taking part in official female-only events until the federation conducts "further analysis" that can last up to two years. The c...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM Arjun Erigaisi were engaged in 1-1 deadlocks in three sets of tiebreak games at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. After two draws in the 25+10 rapid tiebreaks, Praggnanandhaa twice took the lead by winning the first game...
Chess.com is pleased to announce the inaugural #ChessConnectsUs Championship, a special event held as part of GM Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival on October 14, 2023. This unique competition gives chess clubs and organizations from around th...
IM Levy Rozman's first chess book is months away from being released, but it has already sold more than 12,000 copies and made it to #1 on Amazon's best-seller lists. The online chess streamer, popularly known as GothamChess, is the world's bigg...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a formidable challenge from GM Dommaraju Gukesh and held the draw he needed, while GM Nijat Abasov and GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Leinier Dominguez, respectively, to advance to the semifinals ...
Chess.com and Lichess will halt their relationships with St. Louis Chess Club and no longer provide support for or cover any of their tournaments in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct, The Wall Street Journal revealed on Wednesday. In ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat out GM Levon Aronian on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday on August 15, before GM Aram Hakobyan won the late event with the first 10/11 score in two weeks. For both Firouzja and Hakobyan, it was their second Titled Tue...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Arjun Erigaisi won in their typical styles against GM Dommaraju Gukesh and GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the first game of the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup Open section. While Carlsen outwitted his young oppo...
Chess.com’s flagship Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, the stellar event to find the world’s top player over fast time controls, will kick off next month with GM Hikaru Nakamura gunning for an incredible sixth title in a ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi outplayed number-four seed GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round-five tiebreaks to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, so that half of the remaining field now hails from the rising chess powerhouse of India. IM Nurgyul...
GM Alan Pichot, Latin America's strongest player for years, has moved from Argentina and become Spain's fifth-highest-ranked player. On his way out, he criticized the Argentinian Chess Federation and its president for the lack of financial support...
