Two of the world's best blitz players added Titled Tuesday winner to their list of 2024 accomplishments on December 17, with GM Parham Maghsoodloo winning the early tournament outright on 10 points, followed by GM Daniel Naroditsky scoring 9.5 poi...
Chess.com is pumped and excited to announce a premier partnership for our premier event: Take Take Take, a new app cofounded by GM Magnus Carlsen, has joined as an official partner for this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Finals. The CCT Finals ...
The 2025 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship (DCC) is now open for registration! Start the new year right and join thousands of your fellow players in one of the world's biggest chess events. Join the 2025 DCC What is the Daily Chess Champion...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Denis Lazavik lead the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals round-robin after three rounds on the opening day, with perfect scores. GM Wesley So came as close as you can get to defeating the world-number one without actually win...
Chess.com and GM Magnus Carlsen have announced a major partnership with the Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF), which means that competitive chess will be featured for the first time in the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC), the world’s largest ...
Before leaving Singapore, new World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju fulfilled his promise to bungee jump, but in terms of danger it seemed like nothing compared to the crush that greeted him in the airport when he arrived home a hero in Chennai, India. ...
We're excited to announce that the Chess.com Community Championships will continue next year with more events and a total of $40,000 in prizes! The 2025 cycle begins on January 13 with the Chess.com Puzzles Championship and will feature a differen...
GM Sam Sevian became the 12th player to win one of 83 Bullet Brawl's held since January 2023 after scoring 66 wins, three draws, and 11 losses during Saturday's event. In preparation for the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships, Sevian ...
The era of India's GM Gukesh Dommaraju as chess world champion has begun, after an incredibly hard-fought 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore suddenly ended when the Chinese reigning champion GM Ding Liren blundered in the final classical ga...
The 2024 Champions Chess Tour concludes with the CCT Finals, held from December 17 to December 21, 2024, at Screen Studios in Oslo, Norway. The event brings together eight of the world's best chess players to compete for a $500,000 prize fund and ...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Chess.com Chess Improvement Challenge! This is your chance to join a community of like-minded Chess.com members and coaches, reach your chess improvement goals, and win prizes! Sign up for the challenge and set...
Chess.com is happy to announce a new partnership with Freestyle Chess to support the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. Chess.com will host the live coverage of the Tour and offer a qualification path for each event to any of our members, with ...
If you play chess, chances are you've heard of IM Levy Rozman. Known as GothamChess, Levy is the world's biggest chess content creator, with millions of fans all around the planet. A Youtuber, commentator, and writer, Levy is now embarking on his ...
Another season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) is just around the corner, and we are excited to announce that registrations for the Spring 2025 season are now open! The CCL will once again feature a robust $25,000 prize fund, the popular four...
18-year-old Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju is the world champion after the defending title holder GM Ding Liren (32) from China collapsed in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh won 7.5-6.5, taking $1.35 million, after a game where Ding...
GM Andrey Esipenko on Thursday won the $25,000 first prize at the Qatar Masters, one of the strongest opens of the year. GM Arjun Erigaisi could only draw his final round game and finished in a tie for second place, which means GM Fabiano Caruana ...
The London Chess Classic (LCC) was one of the first tournaments I heard of when I first entered the chess world in 2020. Previously hosted in West London at the Kensington Olympia, a place I had only ever visited for Christmas markets, the Classic...
Chess is not the only sport forced to deal with cheating. Now the world of backgammon is rocked by its own scandal. The U.S. Backgammon Federation (USBGF) announced their decision last week, following an investigation into cheating during the 20...
World Champion Ding Liren was on the ropes in game 13, but down to four minutes for 10 moves he spotted the only defense to thwart GM Gukesh Dommaraju and now goes into the final game of the 2024 FIDE World Championship level at 6.5-6.5. Guke...
A week after both Titled Tuesday tournaments were decided by tiebreaks, this week both tournaments were full-point triumphs for the victors. Those winners were GM Volodymyr Onyshchuk in the first event of the day and GM Jeffery Xiong in the s...
The best athletes in the world can react to a situation in less than a second. GM Axel Smith has proven that in chess, it's not much different. We're happy to announce that you can now work on your chess instincts with the Woodpecker Method 2: Pos...
GM Daniel Naroditsky on Monday won the Tournament of the Accused, an event organized by runner-up GM Hikaru Nakamura and sponsored by streaming platform Kick.com. Several of the participants had been "accused": they were players whose recent resul...
For the first time, the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships are taking place in the United States. The premier speed chess tournaments will be held on Wall Street in New York City with a brand new format including a knockout in the Blitz. B...
World Champion Ding Liren played a flawless game from start to finish to beat GM Gukesh Dommaraju and level the scores in the 2024 FIDE World Championship at 6-6 with just two games to go. When Gukesh played fast in a seemingly quiet opening, ever...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Donchenko won the inaugural 2024 Saint Louis Masters with 6.5/9, each earning $17,500 without any tiebreaks. For Caruana, the reigning U.S. Champion, it was a bittersweet ending. He had led the nine-round tourna...
