GM Gukesh D is expected to be the youngest player to have a published rating of 2750 in history when the next FIDE rating list comes out in 11 days (when he will be 17.17 years old). This news comes just off the heels of…
With the fourth leg of the $2 million Champions Chess Tour ending in a thrilling climax and International Chess Day celebrations now underway, Chess.com can reveal the title of its penultimate regular season event: the 2023 Julius Baer Generation ...
With swift and tricky play, GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Wednesday. GM Hikaru Nakamura bested GM Daniel Naroditsky in match loaded with dazzling tactics. Firouzja and Nak...
17-year-old GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continues to climb the highest rungs of professional chess. On Wednesday, he won the V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial | GM, held in Budapest, and will cross the 2700-rating threshold on the next official FIDE list....
Russian chess continues to lose its top players. Former Candidates player GM Kirill Alekseenko has now completed the transfer to Austria and becomes the country's highest-rated player.
The 26-year-old from St. Petersburg who was ranked amo...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie briefly threatened to take over in game 10 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but Defending Champion GM Ju Wenjun "took back" a questionable move and soon even had a nominal advantage before the game fizzled out...
GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Hikaru Nakamura won their matches by the highest margins in the quarterfinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Tuesday. They each defeated formidable grandmasters, Andrew Tang and Jose Martinez respectively, by an...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun played the Sicilian Defense for the first time in the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship and went on to make a comfortable draw with the black pieces, despite GM Lei Tingjie playing on until move 59.
The ...
The favorites swept the underdogs in the opening round of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Monday.
Debuting in the event, GM Magnus Carlsen won nearly every game vs. GM Eric Hansen. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk fought off GM Fabiano Caruana's ...
Imagine a sun-filled day with an over-the-board game in a picturesque park such as Columbus Park in New York City. It’s a scene we all enjoy watching. Would you be surprised to see tennis great Roger Federer on one side of the chessboard fac...