2024 has been an eventful year for chess. We saw quite some movement in the FIDE's top 10 list, with a new generation of young talents cementing themselves among the chess elite. We all cheered on as legendary players put on some thrilling perform...
GM Savva Vetokhin scored an impressive victory in the 2024 Sunway Sitges Chess Festival after cruising through the tournament undefeated and winning 2-0 in the blitz playoff against 22-year-old GM Ido Gorshtein. The teenager's first victory i...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the third player to win 10 Bullet Brawl titles and the $400 first prize on Saturday after denying Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel, courtesy of a dramatic flagging against GM Christopher Yoo in his final game.
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GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive Champions Chess Tour title. Again earning the $200,000 first prize, Carlsen has won every edition of the Champions Chess Tou...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi advance to the title match of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Carlsen defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-1.5, even after missing a checkmate-in-two threat he could have played in the final game. Nep...
We’re excited to announce another official partner for the Champions Chess Tour Finals, currently underway in Olso, Norway! Rubik’s Cube, the company behind the most iconic puzzle in the world, is once more teaming up with Chess.com to...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja made it to the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Semifinals by finishing as numbers one and two in the round-robin, while GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advanced through the Survival Stage....
A week after both Titled Tuesday tournaments were decided by tiebreaks, this week both tournaments were full-point triumphs for the victors. Those winners were GM Volodymyr Onyshchuk in the first event of the day and GM Jeffery Xiong in the s...
The best athletes in the world can react to a situation in less than a second. GM Axel Smith has proven that in chess, it's not much different. We're happy to announce that you can now work on your chess instincts with the Woodpecker Method…
GM Daniel Naroditsky on Monday won the Tournament of the Accused, an event organized by runner-up GM Hikaru Nakamura and sponsored by streaming platform Kick.com. Several of the participants had been "accused": they were players whose recent resul...