Chess.com’s Chief Chess Officer, IM Danny Rensch, hosted the latest installment of State of Chess on Thursday. He was joined by several colleagues to share exciting updates, including the highly anticipated return of PogChamps. The three-h...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen will play the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, while 50-year-old former world number-one Veselin Topalov returns to top-level chess to play the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. Other wildcards announced for ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in blitz tiebreaks to win the Champions Final of The American Cup 2025, which comes with a $15,000 bonus. In the Women's American Cup Champions Final, IM Alice Lee survived a dead-lost endgame ag...
GM Hans Niemann said he has withdrawn from a previously agreed-upon polygraph test, popularly known as a "lie detector test," following his loss against GM Daniil Dubov, citing the Russian's "disrespectful" behavior. [Updated March 21, 2025...
After an 18-move draw, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are tied ½-½ in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. In Open Elimination, however, we saw GMs Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez eliminated, respectively, by G...
GM Anna Muzychuk is the sole leader of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on the rest day after a time-trouble blunder by IM Stavroula Tsolakidou led to a third win in a row. GM Elisabeth Paehtz grabbed the day's only other win after GM Hari...
The North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) is coming to Chess.com this spring. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess competition in the world and includes some of the world's best-known companies as well as small businesses! What Is ...
GM Mamikon Gharibyan and GM Denis Lazavik are your winners for the March 18 Titled Tuesday tournaments, both winning outright by half a point. Lazavik came that same half-point from sweeping the day, finishing second in the early tournament and th...
We're excited to announce that Chess.com is now hosting the vast majority of games on our platform on the Realtime Chess Network, the only globally distributed chess server, which we've been developing over the last four years. This means many pla...
American numbers one and two, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, will clash in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. Nakamura advanced after scoring a classical win with Black against GM Leinier Dominguez, while it took Caruana ...
GM Anna Muzychuk's second win in a row, against IM Divya Deshmukh, saw her catch GM Zhu Jiner in the lead of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 3/4. It was a day of four wins for White, among them GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Harika Dronav...
We're excited to announce the next installment of State of Chess, our live show where we share all the exciting things that we've been working on and what's coming next. It's also the place where you can ask questions directly to us, so we can ans...
After two draws in the Open Champions Semifinals of the The American Cup 2025, no one was able to break ahead. There was more action in the Open Elimination Round 1, where GM Sam Sevian eliminated GM Ray Robson in blitz tiebreaks 3-1 and GM Wesley...
The BBC’s latest reality TV competition, Chess Masters: The Endgame, made its highly anticipated debut on March 10, marking a rare return of chess to prime-time television. However, the eight-episode series has provoked mixed responses from ...
GM Anna Muzychuk scored the only win of round three of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix, though a huge miss approaching move 40 meant she had to do it all over again before checkmating GM Nana Dzagnidze on move 86. GM Zhu Jiner continues t...
The University of the Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) started the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) playoffs with a bang against the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Athens entered the playoffs with a better regular season record but UT...
We're excited to announce the third installment of this year's Chess.com Community Championships! The Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship takes place March 27 and 28 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Atomic Chess is not for the faint of heart. I...
After four more draws in the classical portion, all of the matches in The American Cup 2025 Open went to blitz playoffs. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian have advanced to the Champions Semifinals. Th...
GM Zhu Jiner has taken the sole lead in the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 2/2 after GM Elisabeth Paehtz made a fatal move in an endgame she seemed to be holding. Only IM Stavroula Tsolakidou is within half a point after surviving a trick...
All four games in The American Cup 2025 Open ended in draws, but the top two seeds, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, missed critical chances in their games against, respectively, GMs Abhimanyu Mishra and Ray Robson. In stark contras...
GM Andrew Tang's purple patch has continued, with the hyperbullet exponent capturing his fourth Bullet Brawl title of 2025 and eighth overall after scoring 249 points. Tang eclipsed the scores of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Daniel Naroditsky, Arjun Eri...
IM Stavroula Tsolakidou pounced on a mistake by GM Elisabeth Paehtz to pick up a full point as the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix began. She was joined in the early lead by GM Zhu Jiner, who replaces her Chinese compatriot GM Lei Tingjie in ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi beat GMs Amin Tabatabaei and Richard Rapport to become the 12th and final qualifier for the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam that takes place April 7-14. He'll join fellow Indian stars World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs...
It was naturally a lot harder than winning one game of tic-tac-toe, but GM Arjun Erigaisi has nonetheless won three consecutive Freestyle Friday tournaments. Arjun, who is not a Chess960 specialist per se, is sure treating this variant as a p...
