Chess.com’s Chief Chess Officer, IM Danny Rensch, hosted the latest installment of State of Chess on Thursday. He was joined by several colleagues to share exciting updates, including the highly anticipated return of PogChamps.
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World number-one Magnus Carlsen will play the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia while 50-year-old former world number-one Veselin Topalov returns to top-level chess to play the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. Other wildcards announced for t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 in blitz tiebreaks to win the Champions Final of The American Cup 2025, which comes with a $15,000 bonus. In the Women's American Cup Champions Final, IM Alice Lee survived a dead lost endgame ag...
GM Hans Niemann said he has withdrawn from a previously agreed-upon polygraph test, popularly known as a "lie detector test," following his loss against GM Daniil Dubov, citing the Russian's "disrespectful" behavior.
The 18-game blitz match took...
After an 18-move draw, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are tied ½-½ in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. In Open Elimination, however, we saw GMs Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez get eliminated, respectively, ...
GM Anna Muzychuk is the sole leader of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on the rest day after a time-trouble blunder by IM Stavroula Tsolakidou led to a third win in a row. GM Elisabeth Paehtz grabbed the day's only other win after…
The North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) is coming to Chess.com this spring. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess competition in the world and includes some of the world's best-known companies as well as small businesses!
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GM Mamikon Gharibyan and GM Denis Lazavik are your winners for the March 18 Titled Tuesday tournaments, both winning outright by half a point. Lazavik came that same half-point from sweeping the day, finishing second in the early tournament and th...
We're excited to announce that Chess.com is now hosting the vast majority of games on our platform on the Realtime Chess Network, the only globally distributed chess server, which we've been developing over the last four years. This means many pla...
Americans numbers one and two, GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Fabiano Caruana, will clash in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. Nakamura advanced after scoring a classical win with Black against GM Leinier Dominguez, while it took Carua...