GM Raunak Sadhwani earned the win in the third week of the ninth season of Arena Kings on Wednesday, holding off IM Le Tuan Minh in the finals with a score of 3-2, which just stopped Le from a second consecutive victory.
The semifina...
GMs Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Richard Rapport, and Leinier Dominguez are the "full tour participants" of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour. World champio...
The second game of the final between GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura ended in a draw in only 29 moves after a threefold repetition, leaving the scores tied at the end of the classical games of the final of the 2022 FIDE Grand…
Chess.com is happy to foster the growth of the royal game by giving $25,000 to help fund the 2022 North American Chess Cup for Youth With Disabilities happening June 21 through 26. This amount will help the organizers to invest in staff for the ev...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won his first Titled Tuesday in nearly a year, while GM Hans Niemann earned his first-ever victory. For the first time in the three weeks since Titled Tuesday expanded to two tournaments, no one placed in the top five in both ...
GM Borislav Ivkov, the first World Junior Champion, three-time Yugoslav champion, and former world championship candidate who defeated five world champions of chess, died on Monday at the age of 88. The news was confirmed by FIDE.
"To be honest,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Levon Aronian were involved in a memorable clash in the first game of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg finals in Berlin. Both the players had the upper hand at different points of the game which ended in a…
The Chess.com Players League has been wildly popular, leading to a 20% increase in games played in December 2021 alone. Leagues have also given the Chess.com community another way to track progress in its favorite game. With Leagues came an opport...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the knockout phase of the inaugural 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Anish Giri finished second in the knockout—after taking first in the preliminary Swiss tournament—while GMs Jose Edua...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura comfortably neutralized the challenges of GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport respectively in the second game of the semifinal matches to set up an all-American clash in the final of the first leg of...