The Chess.com team has been popping up all over the world recently and members of the team spent last Friday and Saturday promoting chess to mixed martial arts (MMA) fans in a crossover at UFC X. Hosted at the 200,000 square foot Las Vegas Conve...
Titled Tuesday belonged to GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Hikaru Nakamura on July 2, although both needed tiebreaks after scoring 9.5 points. GM Arjun Erigaisi pulled off the impressive but unenviable feat of finishing in second place in both events, wh...
A powerful victory against GM Wesley So brought GM Alireza Firouzja into joined second place at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania, which resumed on Tuesday following a rest day. After the sixth round, GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead by half ...
The $2.5 million 2024 FIDE World Championship between reigning World Champion Ding Liren and his challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Singapore between November 20 and December 15. FIDE announced on Monday that the southeast Asian cit...
Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand has won his 10th Leon Masters title after defeating GM Jaime Santos 3-1 in the final match. The 54-year-old Anand took over to win the last two games after a shaky start and has now won the event in northwest ...
Another round with five draws at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania saw several missed chances. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was completely winning for one move but failed to spot the required queen sortie against GM Wesley So. Another hard-to-fin...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus defeated FM Henry Tudor in the Final of the ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 for players under 13. While the Turkish prodigy was the clear favorite to win this event, Tudor managed to finish the regular games with a tied 2-...
After progressing to the ChessKid Youth Championships Knockout earlier in the day, 13-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus has commanded another headline with a historic Bullet Brawl victory on Saturday. Scoring 220 points, he finished well ahead of s...
GM Jaime Santos came from behind to beat GM Arjun Erigaisi 2.5-1.5 in a thrilling second Semifinal of the 2024 Leon Masters. The Spanish grandmaster will now attempt to defend the title he won in 2023 as he takes on the legendary GM Viswanathan An...
The fourth round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania was a good day for GM Fabiano Caruana. The 31-year-old American grandmaster is back to being the number two in the world with a 2800+ rating after beating GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac. GM Praggnanand...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus, Antoni Radzimski, FM Henry Tudor, and CM Aaron Mendes all move on to the four-player Knockout of the ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 for players under 13. The four players finished in the top two of their respective group...
Perhaps it sounded too wild to be true. The $1 million buy-in tournament with GMs Hans Niemann, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi, scheduled for November 21, 2024, in Dusseldorf, Germany, has been cancelled by organize...
15th World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated one of his great rivals GM Veselin Topalov 2.5-1.5 on Friday to reach the Final of the 2024 Leon Masters. He'll face the winner of Saturday's Semifinal between GM Arjun Erigaisi and local hero G...
Despite lots of action on the boards, all of Friday's games in the third round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania ended in draws. GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will be somewhat disappointed after spoiling winning posi...
GM Denis Lazavik sailed through day two of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship Play-in, winning all three of his matches to qualify for the main event. He played 14 games total on Friday—against GMs Yuriy Kuzubov, M Pranesh, and Dmitry Andreik...
After his painful loss in the opening round, GM Alireza Firouzja recovered with a victory against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov on Thursday at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania. This time it was GM Fabiano Caruana's turn to spoil a winning position as...
GM M Pranesh finished with the highest score, 9.5/11, in the Swiss stage of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship Play-in. He and seven other players advance to a double-elimination Knockout. Just one player will earn the last qualifying spot availabl...
GMs Awonder Liang and Denis Lazavik won Titled Tuesday on June 25, and several more players locked up a spot in the 2024 Speed Chess Championship after their highly successful Titled Tuesday performances this year to date: GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, ...
The Superbet Chess Classic Romania, the second leg of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour, started on Wednesday in Bucharest with wins for GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana. In his first classical game since winning the Candidates, Gukesh defeated wi...
Thirteen-year-old FM Tani Adewumi won his first national title at the 2024 U.S. Cadet Championship, which concluded on Sunday. By live rating, he should be 14 rating points away from earning the international master title. Undefeated, he finishe...
Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand will be joined by Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and 14 more top players for the WR Chess Masters Cup, a 16-player knockout in London that runs October 14-18. That's just the start of a month of chess, wit...
GM Andrew Tang made a statement in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after winning 70 games and accruing 253 points on the way to claiming the $400 first prize and his second title. For the first time since March, a player not named GM Hikaru Nakamura,...
GM Tan Zhongyi was crowned as the winner and will receive the $50,000 first prize after a quick draw with GM Alexandra Kosteniuk secured her a 6/9 score in the final round of the Cairns Cup 2024 on Saturday. GM Anna Muzychuk finished on a high n...
GM Anna Muzychuk and IM Alice Lee both won their respective games against GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and IM Anna Zatonskih respectively at the Cairns Cup 2024 on Friday. For Muzychuk, this means she is now one point shy of leader GM Tan Zhongyi h...
