Starting from this upcoming Friday, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will be enemies at the board—but they remained friends at today's opening press conference. The players expressed mutual respect and made jokes, while eagerly aw...
Are you looking for yet another way to have fun playing on Chess.com!? Then today is your lucky day, because we are glad to announce a new feature: Leagues are coming on December 13! Earn trophies just by playing games the way you normally do...
Two quarterfinal matches in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event occurred on December 6. In the first match, GM Ding Liren defeated GM Levon Aronian by a 15-11 score. You can read the full report for the Ding-Aronian match here.
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GM Ding Liren beat GM Levon Aronian by a score of 15-11 in the second quarterfinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. In the semifinals, he will face the winner of GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Anish Giri.
The last quarterfi...
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The 2021 FIDE World Championship is quickly approaching and everyone is ...
The ninth game of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship will begin on Tuesday, December 7, after a rest day on Monday. GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the eighth game to increase his lead. The match score is now at 5-3, with…
Game eight of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship is happening soon. With stunning performances and some of the most precise chess games the world has ever seen, GM Magnus Carlsen leads the match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by a 4-3 score at ...
The seventh game of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship will be an extremely important game, with the players returning to the board after the first decisive game. This game also marks the halfway point of the match, with GM Magnus Carlsen lead...
Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, honorary grandmaster, and correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88. This was reported by The Guardian...
GM Nihal Sarin beat GM Richard Rapport by a score of 18-9 in the first quarterfinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. On Monday, December 6 we will have a doubleheader as GM Ding Liren will face GM Levon Aronian at 6:00 a...