Chess.com is excited to announce the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Starting on June 7, the most talented chess prodigies on the planet will clash to claim their piece of the highest prize fund for this event to date: ...
Chess.com is proud to announce Winner Stays, an exciting new event hosted by the ChessBrahs, GMs Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton. This unique and original format will feature three matches between superstar content creators in different rating cate...
Do you want to represent your chess community and compete against other incredible chess communities from around the world while winning premium prizes? The Chess.com Clubs League and Chess.com Nations League are the competitions you seek. These...
Chess.com is excited to announce our new series of monthly events for chess streamers, Chess Done Quick. In this first edition, we invite the best streamers to dash through our Puzzles on a race for cash prizes and bragging rights! The first eve...
Known for inviting everyone to savor life with those who matter most, Stella Artois is partnering with GM Hikaru Nakamura and Chess.com to bring the chess community together to once more make history! On June 1 starting at 2 p.m. Pacific/23:00 Cen...
Chess.com users can now take their endgame skills to the next level using our new Endgames feature. Visit Chess.com/Endgames to learn and master all of the endgames you'll need to know to become an endgame virtuoso! Get Better At Endgames Now! ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the upcoming CryptoChamps tournament powered by Coinbase, an event featuring star personalities from the world of cryptocurrencies. The event will happen on June 12 and 13, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific/19:00 CE...
GM Viswanathan Anand, as well as GMs Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Nihal Sarin, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, will be offering simultaneous exhibitions on Chess.com to support COVID relief in India on May 13 at 19:30 IST/7 a.m. PDT/16:00 CEST....
FIDE and Chess.com are excited to announce the 2021 Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online competition for top female chess players worldwide. The main event will happen from June 10 to July 3, preceded by eight qualifiers from May 28 to June...
Palo Alto, Calif., May 1, 2021—Chess.com is excited to announce Arena Kings Season 7 starting on May 12 with more than $40,000 in prizes. The season will run weekly on Wednesdays from May 12 through August 4 and feature a total prize ...
Palo Alto, Calif., April 20, 2021—ChessKid.com, the Scholastic branch of Chess.com, proudly announces the second-annual ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship that is set to take place in the summer of 2021. Like similar events such as the ...
We're excited to announce the winners of the Chess.com Immortal Game Contest. With more than 2,500 fantastic games submitted, we added 130 to Chess.com's official Immortal Games Collection in our Library. You can enjoy those games by clicking the ...
More than 2,500 fantastic games were submitted to the "Chess.com Immortal Game" contest, and Chess.com now needs you to select the victors. Which game do YOU think is truly immortal? You're invited to vote for your favorite game in each category...
Chess.com is proud to unveil Chess.com/events. We welcome you to test out the ultimate chess event viewing platform—the perfect place to follow all live tournaments, watch active games, see the results, easily follow your favorite player liv...
Update: Cast your votes now at https://www.chess.com/news/view/vote-chess-com-immortal-game. With more than 8,000,000,000 games played on Chess.com to date, there are doubtless many brilliant but little-known masterpieces hidden in our database....
Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life. If you love Chess.com and web design, then we have the perfect opportunity for you. We're happy to announce the Chess.com Redesign Contest, your chance to win up to $10,000 and maybe even...
NOTE: Chess.com has now reverted all rating adjustments referred to in this announcement. We appreciate all of the community feedback and are considering it carefully going forward Today, Chess.com made two significant changes to our Daily...
For many, chess is a fun hobby that allows them to have a good time with their friends. However, to Griffin McConnell, it's much more than that—chess helped him recover from brain surgery. Chess.com is proud to present "Griffin's Gambit," ...
Note: The new navigation bar has been reverted briefly to address an issue affecting some users and will be available again soon. Chess.com is pleased to have released a reorganized and more intuitive navigation bar, where everything is whe...
Hey, chess lovers! October is upon us, and you know what that means: It's time to review all the things that happened around the site in September 2020—and what a month it was! Let's dive in. Web We released a new version of Lessons, pu...
In the early stages of the COVID pandemic, Chess.com launched the first season of our official Chess.com Clubs League, an online competition league for interested clubs all around the world. In season one, 116 clubs competed from all over the worl...
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Today, Chess.com made two significant changes to our rating system. First, all 10-minute games (10|0) are now rapid rated instead of blitz rated. Second, all bullet chess ratings have been increased by 150 points. 10-Minute Chess Now Rapid Rated...
Hey, chess fans! September is here, and it's time to review our accomplishments from last month! So let's consider August 2020 with respect to product development, support, and fair play. Web Developments If you want to learn from y...
Hey, chess fans! August is upon us, and it's time to take stock of the month that was! Here's a look at July 2020 and what our product-development, support and fairplay teams were working on!... Web We added a new Fast option for mo...
