Chess.com is excited to announce that we will be hosting the 2022 U.S. Collegiate Rapid and Blitz Championships. The rapid championship will be held on November 13 and the blitz championship on November 20.
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GM Anna Muzychuk reached the semifinals of the 2022-2023 Candidates Tournament after winner her tiebreak match vs. Humpy Koneru on Sunday. After three draws, the Indian grandmaster blundered a full piece and instantly got eliminated.
Muzychuk wi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Having split the points on offer in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura save...
GM Anna Muzychuk defeated GM Humpy Koneru on demand in Saturday's fourth game of their Women's Candidates quarterfinal, thus forcing a tiebreak to be played on Sunday. The winner will face GM Lei Tingjie, who reached the draw she needed again...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins.
Nakamura only needed three games ...
GM Fabiano Caruana was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Wednesday after scoring an unbeaten 8.5/13 in St. Louis. GM Ray Robson did all that he could to equal Caruana's score but couldn't break through against GM Jeffery X...
IM Michael Basman, a strong British player in the 1960s and 70s, founder of the UK Chess Challenge, prolific author, and most of all an innovator both on and off the chessboard, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday, aged 76. Most famous for his ...
On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced his invention―a brand new version of the game―Fischer Random.
Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory...
By reaching the semifinals of the Aimchess Rapid tournament, GM Magnus Carlsen has secured overall victory in the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The world champion knocked out GM Arjun Erigaisi and will face GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda next. The o...