Get ready for the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships! The Chess.com 3-Check Chess Championship starts on February 18 at 9 a.m. ET / 15:00 CET / 7:30 p.m. IST and features a $2,500 prize fund—so get ready to indulge in ...
Current and former NFL players gathered before the Super Bowl for the second annual BlitzChamps Live tournament and festivities in San Francisco, California, on February 6. At the end of the celebration of football and chess, Will Davis, a former ...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are back for 2026! Following the same format as previous years, the event will bring together a stellar field of young talents in the Under-13 and Under-16 categories. Watch as the fu...
GM Magnus Carlsen succeeded in defending his fifth title at the 2025 Speed Chess Championship by defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 15-12 in the Final. It's his third title in consecutive years and Carlsen earned $38,888.89 for his efforts, while Firou...
In an exhibition of dynamism and speed, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his first Bullet Brawl title in five months after outpacing 154 titled players in Saturday's two-hour arena.
With GM Hikaru Nakamura unavailable to defend his five-week winnin...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja are the two finalists in the 2025 Speed Chess Championship. Carlsen prevailed in a one-sided match against GM Denis Lazavik 17-9, while Firouzja pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in SCC history to rea...
The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) has today officially announced that chess will be a part of the inaugural Esports Nations Cup (ENC), set to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from November 2-8, 2026.
Chess will be one of 16 esports titl...
The 7uice Educational Fair, held on January 31 in Boston, Massachusetts, brought leaders from seemingly unrelated fields to the 64 squares on the chessboard. The 7uice Foundation, founded by Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, partners with instit...
GM Vincent Keymer rode his 10th-round victory over GM Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Friday to a win in the tournament on February 6. Both players scored nine points but Keymer's tiebreaks put him in the lead. Keymer previously won on May 2, 2025, an...
It was a day for "M" names in 3 0 Thursday on February 5, as GMs Parham Maghsoodloo, Haik Martirosyan, and Jose Martinez took the top spots. It was Martinez's fifth victory in the tournament, Maghsoodloo's second, and Martirosyan's first. The wome...