The machine-learning chess engine Lc0 won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship last weekend, making history as the first neural-network project to take the title. Lc0, which taught itself how to play chess, is now at the game's pinnacle ...
Romanian GM Constantin Lupulescu won the Reykjavik Open with the best tiebreak in a group of eight players finishing on 7/9. The 15-year-old Iranian GM Alireza Firouzja was second. Firouzja had won the European Fischer Random Champi...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com To Host Junior Speed Chess Championship Presented by ChessKid Palo Alto, Calif., April 15, 2019—Continuing the expansion of its Speed Chess Championship series, Chess.com will hold a Speed Chess Champions...
GM Jan Gustafsson (Germany) edged out GM Deep Sengupta (India) on tiebreak to win the Bangkok Chess Club Open. It was the second victory in Thailand for the 39-year-old German grandmaster. Both Gustafsson and Sengupta finished on an undefea...
The Women's Speed Chess Championship is kicking off in May, beginning with a qualifier which will be taking place May 8 at 10 a.m. PDT with the winner earning the right to face top seed GM Kateryna Lagno in the first round of the ch...
The rising star GM Alireza Firouzja of Iran is sharing the lead together with GM Robert Hovhannisyan, GM Sergei Movsesian (both Armenia) and GM Constantin Lupulescu (Romania) at the Reykjavik Open. After today's rest day, ...
A day earlier, and the numbers would have been suspiciously good, but Titled Tuesday on April 2 was no joke as it set the record for the largest Titled Tuesday ever with 432 titled participants, including Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Ian N...
With Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Peter Svidler in its lineup for the final weekend, the German chess club Baden-Baden clinched its 13th Bundesliga title in 14 years, more than any German club has ever achieved. In early March we co...
Having already secured victory yesterday, Magnus Carlsen finished the Gashimov Memorial in style. On Tuesday he defeated Alexander Grischuk to finish two points ahead of the pack, something the chess world hadn't seen for 4.5 years. Af...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com To Host Women's Speed Chess Championship Palo Alto, Calif., April 8, 2019—As part of an expansion of its Speed Chess Championship series, Chess.com will hold a women's championship tournament starting in ...
With one round to go, Magnus Carlsen has already won the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. In another excellent attacking game, the world champion defeated his main rival, Sergey Karjakin, with Black. Karjakin, half a...
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Oleksandr Bortnyk to win the 2019 Bullet Chess Championship on Sunday. Earlier, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came third after beating Levon Aronian. This article recaps a full weekend of bullet chess, with the quarterfinals an...
Magnus Carlsen is back to being the sole leader at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The world champion defeated Anish Giri today while the other four games ended in draws. In the Game of the Day (especially in terms of res...
Sergey Karjakin joined Magnus Carlsen in first place at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster used deep preparation and great endgame technique to beat Viswanathan Anand. It was a cute moment during the ...
He wasn't considered a favorite but GM Olexandr Bortnyk ended up winning the bullet round robin qualifier on Friday. The 22-year-old Ukrainian grandmaster won the $750 first prize and qualified for the main bracket of the Chess.com Bullet Champion...
The Argentinian GM Federico Perez Ponsa beat a daunting field Thursday to earn his way into the Bullet Chess Championship main bracket. In a tournament that included Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the newly-crowned European cha...
Scoring his second win, Vishy Anand is now tied with Sergey Karjakin in second place at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. David Navara scored an upset win vs Ding Liren, and Alexander Grischuk defeated Veselin Topalov. Magnus Ca...
GM Alireza Firouzja of Iran emerged victorious from an unsurprisingly difficult field on Wednesday, which saw some of the best bullet players in the world battling it out for a spot in the Bullet Chess Championship main bracket. You can ...
After losing a winning position the other day, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov avoided another loss today as he escaped from a difficult endgame against David Navara. All other games were also drawn in round four of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamki...
With Baden-Baden and Armenia both winning today, four teams have booked their ticket to the live PRO Chess Leagues semifinals in San Francisco this May. The Snowballs and the Eagles join St. Louis and Chengdu in qualifying for the event. Wi...
IM Eva Moser, Austria's first women's grandmaster, died unexpectedly at the age of 36 last weekend in Graz. The news was confirmed by the Austrian Chess Federation. Further details about the death of the player from the city of Spital ...
After three rounds, Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. Today the world champion beat David Navara, who put up a great fight. Vishy Anand was lost, but won anyway against Shakhriyar Mam...
Who's the fastest master on the chessboard? We'll find out in April as Chess.com hosts the Bullet Chess Championship, and all titled players have a chance to qualify for the event. All titled players are invited to participate in the ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com CCO Daniel Rensch to vacate position effective immediately. Palo Alto, Calif.—April 1, 2019 In a move that he described as "the best opportunity I've ever had," Daniel Rensch announced Monday that he wo...
Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin and Ding Liren won their games in round two of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. Those three now lead after two rounds. Today was the round when the two world champions in the field played.&n...