GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac profited the most from the absence of top GMs as he won the post-Christmas Freestyle Friday and its $400 first prize. The 24-year-old Romanian grandmaster edged out IM Eray Kilic and GM Jeffery Xiong on tiebreaks after all th...
GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac profited the most from the absence of top GMs as he won the post-Christmas Freestyle Friday and its $400 first prize. The 24-year-old Romanian grandmaster edged out IM Eray Kilic and GM Jeffery Xiong on tiebreaks after all th...
Twelve-year-old Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro is one step closer to making history by becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster. On Tuesday, he scored another fantastic performance and achieved his second norm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Vladislav Artemiev lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with 4.5 points out of five games on the first day. The group of 15 players that trails them by ...
On January 1, we will make some notable changes to vacation time for in Daily Chess, reducing the amount of vacation time available and simplifying the system.
Vacation time is an important part of daily games on Chess.com. It allows players to ...
GM Magnus Carlsen says he enters the World Rapid & Blitz Championship with motivation and a determination to "give it my all" after several months of doubts over whether he would even take part in the events at all.
The first day of the 2025...
GM Fabiano Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers have won the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 with a 2-0 sweep in the Final, where GM Anish Giri and Leon Luke Mendonca starred with 2/2. GM Alireza Firouzja at times fought a lone battle as the Triveni…
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won a dramatic Titled Tuesday on December 23, just barely winning on tiebreaks ahead of GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. It was Duda's first win in the event since February 18, and he got there by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in the...
GM Jonathan Hawkins, a two-time British Champion, author, and coach, passed away on Monday at the age of 42 after losing the battle with a rare form of cancer. His passing came just a week after GM Daniel Gormally had launched an appeal to help…
GM Hou Yifan's 20-move win over GM Kateryna Lagno gave GM Fabiano Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers a spot in the final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 despite the team suffering defeat. Their key rivals, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's up...