We're about to see the final games of one of the most exciting World Cups unfold. Whether you're rooting for the soccer giants France and Argentina, waiting to see Croatian veteran Modric take the cup home, or hoping Morocco makes history as the f...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, the two biggest stars in chess, will be among the participants at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As always, the tournament will be held during the last week of the ye...
GM Aman "Chessbrah" Hambleton was able to confirm a resounding, albeit controversial win over IM Lawrence Trent via technical knockout (TKO) during Sunday's landmark Mogul Chessboxing Championship, organized by Twitch's streamer of the year and Po...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Aleksandra Goryachkina on Saturday in the fourth game of their Women's Candidates semifinal in Khiva, Uzbekistan. In doing so, Tan qualified for an all-Chinese final vs. GM Lei Tingjie, which is scheduled for the first q...
GM Nihal Sarin emerged victorious from his intergenerational clash with world championship challenger GM Ding Liren in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals on Friday with a score of 17-9 after outpacing his opponent as the time control ...
GM Grigoriy Oparin from Mizzou won the Collegiate Chess League's fifth season after defeating GM Mikhail Antipov, from the same university, in the Grand Finals. His clutch performance in a must-win game ultimately earned him the $1,600 first prize...
Sports fans, mark your calendars for December 13 at 10:30 a.m. PT/19:30 CET. It's the crossover event you won't want to miss: Gordon Hayward vs. Larry Fitzgerald... fans included! These two big-time chess fans and star athletes will be playing in ...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Thursday with a high-octane double-header that saw GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So brush past their respective contenders, GMs David Paravyan and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
Nakamura was particularly i...
GM Hikaru Nakamura filed a motion in the Eastern District of Missouri to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's lawsuit on December 7. This is the latest development in the defamation lawsuit that has received national attention, filed in late October. Chess.c...
IM Elisabeth Paehtz is now GM Elisabeth Paehtz. Germany's number-one female player scored her third GM norm at the 2021 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga, but then an earlier norm was declared invalid. At a recent FIDE Council meeting she was awa...