The 2023 FIDE World Cup is the biggest over-the-board knockout event of the year, and you can punch your ticket to amazing prizes just by predicting who wins!
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi are among the top contend...
GM Le Quang Liem has been crowned as the winner of the Grandmaster Triathlon at the 2023 Biel International Chess Festival for the second year straight after a dominant classical performance.
Following his 5/7 score and 2853 rating performance i...
What a day it was for PogChamps 5. After two thrilling matches filled with plot twists and drama, I should probably consult with a heart doctor just to be safe.
Today, it was the CDawg from Virginia who won his match against Jarvis in the…
As of July 27, the 28-year-old Russian-born GM Vladimir Fedoseev's federation transfer is complete and he will represent Slovenia in future chess tournaments. With a 2676 published rating, the "Bigfish" (from his username on Chess.com) is the Slov...
The day is finally here. PogChamps 5, one of the most anticipated events of the year, welcomes 16 stars to the 64 squares. As fans barraged chat with emote walls and beautifully crafted copypastas, players fed the audience with hilarious moments a...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has had great success on the chess board recently, but everything appears to work out off the board as well. The world number-two confirmed to Chess.com that he married WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan.
The chess world's newest super-c...
On July 25, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the third player to win both ends of a Titled Tuesday, after GM Hikaru Nakamura (who has done it three times) and GM Wesley So. Nakamura himself prevented Vachier-Lagrave from joining him and GM Magnus ...
On Friday, the FIDE Qualification Commission and mathematician Jeff Sonas proposed several changes to the rating system aimed at counteracting deflation―so that FIDE ratings more accurately represent players' strength.
The commission is opening ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Amin Tabatabaei, and Pavel Eljanov emerged victorious in the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup Play-in on Tuesday. They will join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Denis Lazavik, who claimed their spots i...
GM Melikset Khachiyan won the 2023 U.S. Senior Chess Championship, IM-elect Alice Lee won the 2023 Girls' Junior Chess Championship, and GM Abhimanyu Mishra won the 2023 U.S. Junior Chess Championship. Khachiyan and Lee clinched their first n...