Are you ready for free-for-all madness over 160 squares? Then mark your calendar and join the upcoming Chess.com 4 Player Chess Championship! This next event of the Chess.com Community Championships takes place from April 14 to April 18 and featur...
The 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam started with a bang on Monday. The first day featured six rounds of rapid chess and only six of the 36 games ended in draws! World number-one Magnus Carlsen and late addition GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov emerg...
GM Ju Wenjun survived heavy pressure on the board and on the clock to make a five-hour, 80-move draw against GM Tan Zhongyi that leaves the scores level at 2-2 after game four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Both players competed to s...
Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster, two-time Nordic Champion, six-time Icelandic champion, the oldest living candidate for the world chess championship and former FIDE President, passed away on Friday April 4 aged 90 after endurin...
GM Ju Wenjun ground out a win in a pawn-up endgame to defeat GM Tan Zhongyi and level the scores at 1.5-1.5 after three games of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Tan played fast in a Sicilian to pressure her opponent, but in the run-...
Less than 48 hours before the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons." The U.S. grandmaster is the second player to be replaced, after GM Alireza Fi...
16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel added a third Bullet Brawl title to his trophy cabinet on Saturday after a tense battle with his compatriot, 13-year-old GM Yagiz Erdogmus, and the nine-time Bullet Brawl winner, GM Andrew Tang.
Two hours o...
It took a few months for GM Hikaru Nakamura to win his first Freestyle Friday, but just a week later, he won his second. Whereas last week Nakamura needed tiebreaks after a final-round setback, this week he won outright with 10 points after achiev...
We're excited to announce that everyone's favorite chess tournament for amateurs is back! Starting April 29, PogChamps 6 will bring 12 celebrity creators and professional athletes together to participate in the world's funniest and most unique che...
The much-anticipated Magnus vs. The World match officially launched on Chess.com on Friday with GM Magnus Carlsen's first move. With 100,000 participants registered on Thursday, the event shattered the record for the largest online chess match eve...