With a rating of only 1845, 17-year-old Velpula Sarayu from India scored one of the most sensational results in chess history, defeating masters rated more than 600 points higher. Teenagers such as GM Dommaraju Gukesh, GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Prag...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the early Titled Tuesday event on August 1 and then finished second late. It was GM Alexander Grischuk who won the late event. Both of them are playing in the second round of the 2023 FIDE World Cup on Wednesday, but decided ...
It was a day of mercilessness and confusion at PogChamps 5. Most of the matches were 2-0 sweeps. I did a thing did tricky things to defeat Fuslie. CDawgVA daydrank as he beat Franks-is-heres. xQc gained winning positions by move eight in b...
Top seeds GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun commence battle in the 2023 FIDE World Cup in Wednesday's round two, but first, there were 33 places to be decided in tiebreaks. It took six hours, with 18-year-old local star GM Aydin S...
Every month, there is a renaissance of sorts on Chess.com, when we release our new bots. Is chess an art? It will be when you play this month's artist bots! So grab a refreshment (a slice of pizza, perhaps?), take a seat on your art stool, and p...
Registration is now open for the Fall 2023 season of the Collegiate Chess League! This event returns with the CCL's tried-and-tested four vs. four team format, a $25,000 prize fund, and a presenting partner, Susquehanna International Group, L...
Another avalanche of unexpected plot twists marked the fourth day of PogChamps 5. Squeex defeated Jinnitty in his debut, later losing a close match with Tyler1. Like a superhero from any given movie, Sapnap defeated his overpowered opponent Wirt...
Peruvian IM Gianmarco Leiva survived a 136-move thriller to knock GM Anton Demchenko out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, but that was a rare success for an underdog. The favorites hit back, including GM Velimir Ivic, who smoothly outplayed 14-year-old...
Fourteen-year-old IM Ediz Gurel found a brilliant sacrifice to take down GM Velimir Ivic as the 2023 FIDE World Cup kicked off in Baku. Top seeds such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun start their campaigns in ...
Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won July's final Bullet Brawl after chalking up 70 wins in the two-hour arena en route to an insurmountable 261 score. His journey to the top was marked by a 26-game win streak in the final 30 minutes of the event. ...
With trash talk, surprise checkmates, and ruthless king hunts, the competitors went all out on day three of PogChamps 5. Franks-is-heres inspired himself into victory vs. the ever-calm Sykkuno, tying with CDawgVA for first in Group A. Sapnap def...
IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, more commonly known as Sara Khadem, gained Spanish citizenship on Wednesday. The 26-year-old international master, who left her native country Iran in January and transferred chess federations in July, is the number-o...
Update: The winners have been announced! Find the details below. The 2023 FIDE World Cup is the biggest over-the-board knockout event of the year, and you can punch your ticket to amazing prizes just by predicting who wins! GMs Hikaru Nakamu...
GM Liem Le has been crowned as the winner of the Grandmaster Triathlon at the 2023 Biel International Chess Festival for the second year straight after a dominant classical performance. Following his 5/7 score and 2853 rating performance in the ...
What a day it was for PogChamps 5. After two thrilling matches filled with plot twists and drama, I should probably consult with a heart doctor just to be safe. Today, it was the CDawg from Virginia who won his match against Jarvis in the ...
As of July 27, the 28-year-old Russian-born GM Vladimir Fedoseev's federation transfer is complete and he will represent Slovenia in future chess tournaments. With a 2676 published rating, the "Bigfish" (from his username on Chess.com) is the Slov...
The day is finally here. PogChamps 5, one of the most anticipated events of the year, welcomes 16 stars to the 64 squares. As fans barraged chat with emote walls and beautifully crafted copypastas, players fed the audience with hilarious moments a...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has had great success on the chess board recently, but everything appears to work out off the board as well. The world number-two confirmed to Chess.com that he married WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan. The chess world's newest super-c...
On July 25, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the third player to win both ends of a Titled Tuesday, after GM Hikaru Nakamura (who has done it five times) and GM Wesley So. Nakamura himself prevented Vachier-Lagrave from joining him and GM Magnus C...
On Friday, the FIDE Qualification Commission and mathematician Jeff Sonas proposed several changes to the rating system aimed at counteracting deflation―so that FIDE ratings more accurately represent players' strength. The commission is opening ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Amin Tabatabaei, and Pavel Eljanov emerged victorious in the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup Play-in on Tuesday. They will join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Denis Lazavik, who claimed their spots i...
GM Melikset Khachiyan won the 2023 U.S. Senior Chess Championship, IM-elect Alice Lee won the 2023 Girls' Junior Chess Championship, and GM Abhimanyu Mishra won the 2023 U.S. Junior Chess Championship. Khachiyan and Lee clinched their first n...
Jaylen Brown, the two-time All-Star for the Boston Celtics, is the latest star to join our ever-growing team of athletes and sports figures that you can tip off with at our bots page. Play the bot today! Chess.com is also collaborating with Brow...
The wait is nearly over—PogChamps 5 is about to kick off, and now Chess.com can reveal its sparkling line-up for the most exciting amateur event in chess. The two-week tournament starting on July 26 at 4 p.m. ET/21:00 CEST, will feature...
