GM Wesley So has emerged out of the Losers Bracket victorious and will challenge GM Magnus Carlsen for the Division I Grand Final of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023. In a sacrifice-loaded match vs. GM Eduardo Iturrizaga, the America...
A heavily decisive round one with four victories out of five games commenced the Cairns Cup 2023 on Saturday. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk scored her first-ever classical victory vs. GM Humpy Koneru, the second-highest-rated woman in the world. GM ...
The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour, the Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz 2023, commenced on Sunday with three rounds of rapid chess culminating in GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Levon Aronian, and Wesley So sharing the lead on 2.5/3.0 and with five ...
The three-time and reigning Ukrainian champion, GM Andrei Volokitin, defeated the English number-one and seven-time British champion, GM Michael Adams, in the UK vs. Ukraine Match 2023, with a score of 4.5-3.5. The match concluded on Thursday. T...
The second leg of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women's Grand Prix kicked off with four decisive games in round one, featuring ferocious king attacks by GMs Tan Zhongyi, Nana Dzagnidze, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Elisabeth Paehtz. How to watch? The gam...
GM Grigoriy Oparin from Mizzou won the Collegiate Chess League's fifth season after defeating GM Mikhail Antipov, from the same university, in the Grand Finals. His clutch performance in a must-win game ultimately earned him the $1,600 first prize...
Chess.com is happy to announce that we've released 50 lessons on the most popular chess openings. Developed by our team of master players, these lessons will teach you everything you need to know to take your opening play to the next level. Many...
WGM Jennifer Yu was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Women's Chess Championship on Thursday after a thrilling tiebreaker that had to be decided by an armageddon game. After winning the opening game of the match against GM Irina Krush, Yu very n...
GMs Anish Giri and Jan-Krzysztof Duda overcame Pavel Ponkratov and Alexey Sarana, respectively, in the 2022 Chess.com Global Championship round of 16 on Wednesday, presented by Brave. The two matches featured pairings between players who, alt...
GMs Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Robert Hovhannisyan scored crucial wins to enable Armenia to prevail over India 2 with a 2.5-1.5 score and capture the lead with 12 match points at the end of the sixth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. GM Fabiano ...
After intense rapid and blitz play action in the Elimination Brackets on Tuesday, the sanity of the Championship Brackets returned on Wednesday with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian meeting in Group A while Group B saw a repeat of GM Iri...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals, brought to you by SIG, commenced today with GM Nihal Sarin taking on IM Christoper Yoo in an explosive encounter that ended with a 15-11 score in favor of the reigning champion. Proving dom...
In two hard-fought matches in the Elimination Brackets, day seven decided who would make it to the finals of The American Cup and face GMs Fabiano Caruana and Irina Krush. In group A, GM Levon Aronian outlasted GM Lenier Dominguez; in Group...
GM Sam Sevian is on the brink of a 2700+ rating after beating the reigning U.S. Champion Wesley So in the first round of The American Cup. This brand-new tournament, featuring a double-elimination bracket, started on Wednesday in St. Louis. How ...
GM David Navara just made it into the knockout phase of the Charity Cup as the Czech GM had the better tiebreak over GM Richard Rapport and GM Praggnanandhaa R., who won a brilliant game in the penultimate round....
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean continued today with the first round of the Losers Bracket. Although these players lost their first match in this double-elimination tournament, they are some of the fastest bullet chess...
GM Ding Liren beat GM Levon Aronian by a score of 15-11 in the second quarterfinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. In the semifinals, he will face the winner of GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Anish Giri. The last quarterfi...
GM Magnus Carlsen is on the verge of defending his world title after scoring his third win in the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi committed an even bigger blunder than in the previous game, this time allowing a...
Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, grandmaster as well as correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88. This was reported by The Guardian. ...
In round seven of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, two players joined GM Aleksandr Lenderman atop the standings: GM Sam Sevian scored another win, this time as Black versus GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista, while GM Wesley So beat GM John M.Burke, also w...
In round six of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, GM Magnus Carlsen reinforced his lead as he beat GM Anish Giri in the blitz tiebreaks, but GM Teimour Radjabov kept the chase alive, having won 3-1 against GM Wesley So. Besides those ma...
In round five of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals GM Magnus Carlsen recovered from yesterday's loss and remains the sole leader, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, and Teimour Radjabov keep chasing him. Today was very entertaini...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Saturday. The format is a round-robin event with 10 super-GM participants, namely Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim...
GM Teimour Radjabov and GM Wesley So are leading their two-day matches in the quarterfinals of the FTX Crypto Cup. Radjabov defeated GM Anish Giri in the fourth game, while So beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave twice. In a remarkable first match bet...
