Missed your morning alarm? Heart beating out of your chest? Thought you’d overslept an exam? Well, my friend, this is not a drill. You’ve been enrolled at The Gambit Academy and your chess skills are ready to be tested. Can you defeat ...
Chess.com is excited to announce we're once more partnering with legendary GM Judit Polgar to support the 2024 Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival. The event will take place on September 17 at the Hungarian National Gallery and on September 18 at...
Potions and magic trumped ratings and titles in the 2024 Spell Chess Championship qualifiers as eight players with FIDE ratings between 1800 and 2558 booked their spots in the $2,000 Chess.com Community Championship Series knockout which will take...
The State of Chess returned on Thursday with several important updates. Chief Chess Officer Danny Rensch led the discussion that focused on community updates, fair play changes, site updates, and big media developments.
You can watch the fu...
Two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu narrowly avoided a last-round disaster against Julia Schulman to win the 2024 Botez Chess Camp with a dominant 6/7, half a point ahead of WFM Alexandra Botez. Co-organizer Alexandra won her last four ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2024 edition of the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship, Chess.com's premier chess event for women. This year's event will feature an expanded field of 16 of the strongest women chess players in the wo...
For the first time, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu has broken the 2500 barrier officially, with an 11th place on the August 2024 FIDE rating list. FIDE World Championship contender GM Gukesh Dommaraju returned to being the sixth highest-rated player in th...
GMs Hans Niemann and Fabiano Caruana move on to the Quarterfinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating, respectively, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexey Sarana in the last two round of 16 matches of the season.
Bullet chess se...
The world's official top two blitz players, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja, won the two Titled Tuesday tournaments on July 30. Firouzja won the early tournament, his third victory of the year, and Carlsen took his fifth win late.
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With just over half the year behind us, 2024 has already treated us to several masterpieces on the 64 squares. In this article, we review the seven best games of the year so far.
The games are listed in sequential order, starting with the beginn...