GM Magnus Carlsen won the first game, of two, in his Freestyle Chess Match against Fabiano Caruana. It was a full-fledged war on the 64 squares after Caruana sacrificed a pawn on move 11, but Carlsen found his groove: The game just flowed—...
GM Magnus Carlsen and IM Tania Sachdev proved to be the dream team in "Head & Hand" as the duo defeated GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maurice Ashley 2-0. Day one was a promotional event for the Freestyle Chess Match: Carlsen vs. Caruana in Singapore...
On November 19, GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player ever to win four straight Titled Tuesdays, and nearly became the first to win five in a row and sweep two consecutive weeks. Nakamura was able to just squeak out a win on tiebreaks over GM...
Four-time Serbian National Champion GM Aleksandar Indjic convincingly won the 2024 European Chess Championship with 9/11 and a performance of 2820. The champion, undefeated, led the tournament from round six all the way to the end, at one point sc...
Chess.com and partner CloseUp360 are excited to announce a bot for one of the National Basketball Association’s rising stars, Jaime Jaquez Jr.! To celebrate, Chess.com and Jaime are teaming up for a special blitz tournament on November 19t...
The 2025 Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters group has 2020 winner GM Fabiano Caruana as the top seed in a field that includes five top 10 players. Many eyes will be on the 11-year-old IM Faustino Oro from Argentina, who will be playing in the C...
GM Magnus Carlsen has added the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz title to his Rapid crown after beating GM Arjun Erigaisi in the penultimate round. He confessed it was a "really, really nervy day," since a five-game drawing streak enabled Ar...
Missouri and Saint Louis were victorious in the Quarterfinals of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season on Saturday. Missouri scored 9-3 vs. Yale, supported by 3-0 scores from GM Mikhail Antipov and IM Isik Can. GM Dambasuren Batsure...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has made Chess.com history by becoming the first player to win Bullet Brawl and both editions of Titled Tuesday in the same week. Nakamura capped off a perfect week and secured a 33rd crown after scoring 252 points on Satur...
When GM Magnus Carlsen began with 5.5/6, crossed 2900, and took the sole lead in the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, it looked like another perfect day at the office, but the world number-one ended with a 20-move loss to GM Arjun Erigaisi ...
GM Anish Giri defeated IM Alice Lee, IM Ryo Chen, GM Shreyas Royal, and GM Andy Woodward 2.5-1.5 in the third edition of Kids vs. Stars 2024, a simul where he played all four of them at the same time. Never before has the Star won a match in this ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen was on fire as he posted a six-game winning streak to win the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid with a round to spare. A thrilling battle against GM Vincent Keymer was followed by a grinding win against GM Dani...
"Today couldn't have gone better!" said GM Magnus Carlsen as he powered to wins over GMs Narayanan S.L., Wesley So, and Arjun Erigaisi to take the sole lead after day two of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is j...
The 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) playoffs are upon us, and you can join in on the excitement by predicting who wins! Can Saint Louis defend their championship title for the fourth time in a row, or will SRM IST from India win it all ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the sole leader of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid after beating GMs Vincent Keymer and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on day one to score 2.5/3 in Kolkata. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, and Narayanan S.L. are ju...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has done it again, winning both tournaments of Titled Tuesday on November 12. It is his eighth time achieving the feat of double victory since the second weekly event was added in February 2022—no one else has done it more...
GM Maurice Ashley is establishing a new initiative aimed at nurturing the talents of young chess players from underserved communities in the United States. Ashley has made his move to address the persistent underrepresentation of African America...
SRM clinched first place in Division I of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season in the last week of the regular season. In Division II, UCLA defeated Illinois with a round to spare. SRM's top three boards, IM A Ra Harikrishnan, IM S...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as the winner of the 2024 Chennai Grand Masters after tying for first place with GMs Levon Aronian and Arjun Erigaisi and defeating Aronian in the final of the tiebreak with a 2-0 score. The format of the thre...
Kyla Zhao brings her own experiences to life in her new novel May The Best Player Win, delving into gender inequality and stereotypes, captivating readers within and beyond the chess community. “I just want to remind people that there are ...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's first win of the tournament in the sixth and penultimate round handed GM Arjun Erigaisi his first loss of the tournament, thus enabling GM Levon Aronian to join Arjun in the lead with four points in the Masters section o...
Two and a half decades after GM Maurice Ashley became the first African American grandmaster, GM-elect Brewington Hardaway has climbed to the top of the mountain. Born in the Bronx, New York, 15-year-old Hardaway has completed the requirements to ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky, who celebrated his 29th birthday on Saturday, showed that with age comes wisdom as he won his 24th Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrew Tang. Naroditsky notched 77.5/83 and scored...
GM Arjun Erigaisi continues to lead the Masters section of the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 with four points after a draw with GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the fifth round. Trailing him by half a point is GM Levon Aronian who defeated GM Maxime Vachier-...
GM Awonder Liang defeated GM Jeffery Xiong 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final to win the Seirawan Chess Championship 2024 and $600. It was an exciting clash between the two friends who together won the Bughouse Chess Championship earlier this year. GM Yas...
