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...
A lower-rated amateur has been kicked out of an open tournament in the Netherlands after being caught with a cell phone hidden in his sock after previously raising eyebrows by defeating much higher-rated masters. The 26th edition of the Hogescho...
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...
A chess player has been suspended by the Russian Chess Federation and is reportedly facing time in jail after she allegedly tried to poison her rival at the chessboard during a tournament. Amina Abakarova, a 40-year-old chess coach from Makhachk...
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...
British tennis star Henry Patten, fresh off his Wimbledon doubles victory, opened up about his passion for chess in an exclusive interview with Chess.com and revealed the game has sharpened his mind and benefited his tennis career. Patten is a B...
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...
15-year-old IM Shreyas Royal, who faced eviction from the United Kingdom eight years ago due to his father's expiring work visa, has now achieved his dream of becoming the youngest British chess grandmaster in history. Royal is set to beco...
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...
Missed your morning alarm? Heart beating out of your chest? Thought you’d overslept an exam? Well, my friend, this is not a drill. You’ve been enrolled at The Gambit Academy and your chess skills are ready to be tested. Can you defeat ...
Chess.com is excited to announce we're once more partnering with legendary GM Judit Polgar to support the 2024 Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival. The event will take place on September 17 at the Hungarian National Gallery and on September 18 at...
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...
The State of Chess returned on Thursday with several important updates. Chief Chess Officer Danny Rensch led the discussion that focused on community updates, fair play changes, site updates, and big media developments. You can watch the fu...
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 ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2024 edition of the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship, Chess.com's premier chess event for women. This year's event will feature an expanded field of 16 of the strongest women chess players in the wo...
For the first time, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu has broken the 2500 barrier officially, with an 11th place on the August 2024 FIDE rating list. FIDE World Championship contender GM Gukesh Dommaraju returned to being the sixth highest-rated player in th...
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...
