GM Leinier Dominguez has pulled out of the Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2023 at halfway, explaining, “I’ve come to a point where I’m simply risking too much if I continue.” The U.S. star travelled to Spain hunting...
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a controversial motion to scrap presidential term limits leaving Arkady Dvorkovich, a former deputy prime minister of Russia, free to run for a third term in 2026.
Delegates from 108 national federa...
British chess prodigy WCM Bodhana Sivanandan continues her remarkable chess journey with a sensational result in the European Blitz Championship where she won the prize for the best woman player.
In late October, the eight-year-old prodigy made ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi showed his defensive skills in a slightly difficult middlegame position to outwit GM Alexandr Predke later in a long endgame, scoring his maiden win of the event in the third round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Erstwhile joi...
FIDE could be on the verge of scrapping its presidential term limit and allowing Russian incumbent Arkady Dvorkovich to run for four more years in office.
The world chess federation's current rules—brought in as an election promise by Dvor...
Bullet Brawl's undisputed king, GM Hikaru Nakamura, secured his 15th title and $1,000 in the latest edition of the tournament, finishing on 260 points with 71 wins, two draws, and eight losses. A 27-game streak, which included wins over chess pers...
Legendary fighting game champion SonicFox is best known for delivering brutal beatdowns in Mortal Kombat, but they're also a force to be reckoned with over the chess board—and now they've got an official Chess.com bot to prove it!
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GM Magnus Carlsen won his third title at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals on Saturday. He defeated GM Wesley So 2.5-1.5 and shared that the tour "came full circle" in the final game where he cracked So's super-solid opening line.
Carlsen won...
GM Sanan Sjugirov defended against ambitious play by GM Pavel Eljanov in the middlegame to score a patient victory and jumped into a joint lead with one and a half points after the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. He has joined GM…
GM Magnus Carlsen is one set away from winning his third title and $200,000 at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. On day one of the Title Match, he defeated GM Wesley So with the black pieces in game three, squeezing water from stone in…