We’re excited to announce the release of our newest feature, Life Review! Chess.com’s Game Review has become an incredibly popular tool to help chess players understand and improve their game. Life Review takes that same underlying tec...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams worked their way back to the Collegiate Chess...
On the road to the grandmaster title, IM-elect Tani Adewumi has only one stop left. In round five of the tournament NYC Chess Norms Spring 2025, the 14-year-old crossed 2400 by live rating and thus completed the final requirement for the internati...
GM Andrew Tang was denied a record-equaling four-peat in Saturday's Bullet Brawl by a dominant performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura that saw him capture his 38th title and the $400 first prize. Following a successful The American Cup campaign, N...
Liam Hereford won the 2025 Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship after winning both the Winners Final and Grand Final Reset. Eduardo Lorenzon lost to Hereford early on in the Winners Semifinals, but he climbed through three matches in the Losers Bra...
GM Kateryna Lagno has withdrawn from the 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix India in Pune, India, which is part of the women’s world championship cycle. FIDE published that Lagno, as well as IM Sara Khadem, withdrew from the tournament that'...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his first Freestyle Friday on March 28, scoring nine points and winning on tiebreaks against four other players on the same score: GMs Alexey Sarana, Jose Martinez, Jeffery Xiong, and Christopher Yoo. It was the third ...
What's more human than this? A recent study by a group of California researchers has shown than some artificial intelligence (AI) programs cheat at chess without any stakes on the outcome of the game.
In the study, several prominent chatbots wer...
GM Matthias Bluebaum is the first player to win the European Chess Championship two times. He previously won gold in 2022 and is also the only German to top the event in its 25-year history. He finished in a three-way tie on 8.5/11 with GMs…
GM Kirill Shevchenko, the world's 75th highest-rated player, has been handed a three-year worldwide ban from chess, with one year suspended. The 22-year-old has admitted to hiding a phone in the toilet but denied that he "effectively" cheated and ...