GM Hikaru Nakamura will lead the new American Gambits team when the Global Chess League returns for a second season, to be held this October in London. The other Icon players leading their teams are GMs Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepom...
GMs Jose Martinez and Jeffery Xiong were the victors in the August 13 editions of Titled Tuesday, Martinez finally breaking into the TT winners column in 2024 after coming close several times. "Ready for London," an apparent reference to his ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave led the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after day one, but GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi caught up to him to join a three-way tie after six rounds. Of the other seven players, GM Fabiano Caruana was the o...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader of the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of rapid games. After escaping vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura and turning the tide vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the French grandmaster defeated...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
Are you ready for piece placement pandemonium? Chess.com is excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship! Starting on August 19, anyone can battle for a piece of this month's...
Famed commentator and GM Daniel Naroditsky added a 22nd Bullet Brawl title to his resume on Saturday after outscoring Turkish prodigies GM Ediz Gurel and IM Yaqiz Erdogmus, whose combined age of 28 is the same as the winner's. A 23-game unbea...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is the last player to make it to the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Finals. On Friday, he defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Quarterfinals with a 14.5-9.5 score. Nepomniachtchi got off to a three-point lead in the first segmen...
GM Magnus Carlsen qualified for the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Semifinals, live in Paris on September 6, after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi with a 12-9 score. He will play GM Hans Niemann in the next match, the first time they will meet for a ga...
GM Hans Niemann can buy his ticket to Paris, as he's made it to the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Semifinals which will be live in France. He won his quarterfinal match against GM Wesley So 13-10. Notably, he gave a 30-minute interview after the m...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a perfect 11/11 in the late Titled Tuesday on August 6, the first flawless Titled Tuesday of the year and overshadowing GM Hikaru Nakamura's earlier win out of a four-way tie on 9.5 points. It was Carlsen's second 11/...
GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the first quarterfinal match of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 with an overwhelming score of 14.5-8.5. He is the first player to qualify for the Semifinals that will be held live in Paris. Th...
GM Magnus Carlsen-led WR Chess Team beat GM Arjun Erigaisi's Team MGD1 in the Final to win the 2024 World Blitz Team Championship. WR Chess won all seven matches in the group stages and cruised into the Quarterfinals. There they defeated GMHans.co...
GM Daniil Dubov's only win of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships saw his team Al-Ain ACMG UAE take gold in a nail-biting finish. World Champion Ding Liren's Decade China Team took silver, with Pang Bo scoring 11/11 on board six, w...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his 26th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize after scoring 268 points and staving off a challenge from GM Daniel Naroditsky (253) on Friday. Rounding out the podium and claiming the $150 third prize was GM Andrew Tan...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen bounced back to beat GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren on day two of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, but his team WR Chess trails Al-Ain ACMG UAE by three points. GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the sta...
GM Luca Moroni Jr. has been crowned as Chess.com's top wizard after toppling IM Nhat Minh To in the Grand Final Reset of the 2024 Spell Chess Championship. Moroni, who was the only GM to qualify for the knockout, won $600 for his first-place finis...
GM Richard Rapport scored a stunning victory over World Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen as WR Chess, the defending champions and heavy favorites to win the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, sank to a 5-1 loss to third-seeded Chessy. C...
Potions and magic trumped ratings and titles in the 2024 Spell Chess Championship qualifiers as eight players with FIDE ratings between 1800 and 2558 booked their spots in the $2,000 Chess.com Community Championship Series knockout which will take...
Two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu narrowly avoided a last-round disaster against Julia Schulman to win the 2024 Botez Chess Camp with a dominant 6/7, half a point ahead of WFM Alexandra Botez. Co-organizer Alexandra won her last four ...
GMs Hans Niemann and Fabiano Caruana move on to the Quarterfinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating, respectively, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexey Sarana in the last two Round of 16 matches of the season. Bullet chess se...
The world's official top two blitz players, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja, won the two Titled Tuesday tournaments on July 30. Firouzja won the early tournament, his third victory of the year, and Carlsen took his fifth win late. W...
GM Alireza Firouzja kicked off his Speed Chess Championship 2024 campaign in style with a 13.5-10.5 victory over GM Alexander Grischuk in a Round of 16 match that was packed to the brim with enterprising opening play and time scrambles. Fo...
Bullet Brawl's third most prolific winner, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, added a seventh title to his resume and won $400 after outlasting Chess.com hyperbullet champion GM Andrew Tang and 21-time Bullet Brawl winner GM Daniel Naroditsky on Saturday. 14-y...
