GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu finally won a classical game at the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he defeated GM Sam Shankland to reenter the world top-10. It was almost a perfect day for the family as Vaishali Rameshbabu was on the brink of beating GM...
The French numbers one and two will face off in the Division I Winners Final of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave once again proved to be GM Magnus Carlsen's kryptonite, while GM Alireza Firouzja overcame GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is out of the world top-10 after losing to GM Vincent Keymer, who said he'd played 1.e4 for the first time "in like nine years" in round four of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Masters classical section. GM Liem Le took o...
Two-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion WGM Jennifer Shahade has filed a major lawsuit against US Chess, its president Randy Bauer, and chess writer Peter Tamburro, alleging defamation, retaliation, and discrimination after her public allegations of ...
GM Alireza Firouzja may have suffered a "once-in-a-lifetime" nine-move loss against GM Fabiano Caruana, but he still won his Division I Winners Quarterfinal match in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. He'll play GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the Winners Semi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura skips the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad that will take place in the Hungarian capital Budapest on September 11-22, but the U.S. team of GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez, Levon Aronian, and Ray Robson is still the top...
Chess.com is excited to announce a new partnership with Tech Mahindra to support the second season of the Global Chess League. The event will take place at Friends House in London from October 3 to 12 and feature a $1,000,000 prize fund. The Glo...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu just can't stop winning! The Indian star took the lead in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers and has entered the Women's Top-10 after defeating GM Ihor Samunenkov with a brilliant, if flawed, attack. GM Jonas Bjerre gr...
A new study by Chess.com's Fair Play Team has estimated the cheating rate in Titled Tuesday to be less than 2% for most events. However, the platform is introducing a new public closure policy to underscore the commitment to combat cheating. The...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Dmitry Andreikin won their matches on day two of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 to make it into Division I. They join the players who qualified through the last Champions Che...
The US Chess Federation announced on Monday that Shama Yisrael, a 20-year-old from Florida, has crossed the 2200 USCF rating barrier and will become the first female, African-American national master in the country's history when the rating lists ...
International chess arbiter Arild Rimestad from Denmark has been given a two-year ban by the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) following multiple reports of sexual harassment against a female FIDE employee. In its decision dated July...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Abhimanyu Mishra both won again in round two of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival despite being the lowest-rated players in their groups. Mishra leads the Masters after a long, grinding win against GM Sam Shankland, while Va...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura, and Mikhail Antipov finished in a three-way tie with 7/9 in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Play-in, but it was Nepomniachtchi who had the best tiebreaks. Mizzou student and CCL star Antipov reaches Division I ...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on July 16 outright with 10 points, his first since 2022. GM Javokhir Sindarov then won his first-ever Titled Tuesday late in a shocking turn of events. Like Xiong, Sindarov scored 10 points...
Get your potions ready! We're excited to announce the 2024 Spell Chess Championship, the next installment of this year's Chess.com Community Championships. Starting on August 1, anyone can be the next Chess.com Spell Chess Champion—and take ...
Lowest-seed GM Vaishali Rameshbabu stunned top-seed GM Jonas Bjerre to win with Black in the first round of classical games in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers, but her brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu suffered the opposite fate. The t...
The Kids, WFM Bodhana Sivanandan and CM Antoni Radzimski, defeated the Stars, WGM Nemo Zhou and FM Anna-Maja Kazarian, by a five-point margin in the second edition of Kids vs. Stars. While the Stars scored their share of victories, the Kid...
Top-seed GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu got off to a winning start on his debut in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he won the opening Masters Chess960, edging out GM Haik Martirosyan, whom he beat in their head-to-head clash. Martirosyan then went o...
World Chess faced criticism following the announcement of 'Clash of Claims 2,' a sequel to the controversial match between GMs Vladimir Kramnik and Jose Martinez. The company's CEO Ilya Merenzon, who expressed surprise at the reaction, has agreed ...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia with five rounds to spare. Scoring a total of 27 points across the five days, he matched GM Magnus Carlsen's record from 2019 of most points earned in a Grand Chess Tour rapid a...
IM Stephane Bressac won the first edition of the Blindfold Chess Challenge, a tournament with a unique format held July 9-11 in Valencia, Spain, where visually-impaired players faced off with non-impaired players. The 34-year-old Bressac was the o...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has moved one step closer to seizing the top spot on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after winning the latest edition ahead of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Hikaru Nakamura, and 132 other titled players. Now sitting on 21 v...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, now by 4.5 points after the first day of blitz. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored the most points on Saturday and is Caruana's closest rival, along with GM Wesley ...
