Three co-leaders, none of them playing each other, all made draws in the final round, but someone still had to win the Titled Tuesday tournament out of GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Hans Niemann, and Parham Maghsoodloo. And that is the order tiebreaks p...
More players, more pieces, and more tactics! The Chess.com 4-Player Chess Championship is the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The event kicks off with the qualifiers on April 6 and features a $5,000 prize fund and the variant'...
Just as collegiate basketball players compete in March Madness, college chess players are about to begin their own playoff bracket in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). The eight Division One teams have just completed the seven-week round-robin se...
All eight games were drawn in round two of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament and 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates. In the open tournament, the standings remain unchanged with GMs Fabiano Caruana, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and Javokhir Sindaro...
IM Polina Shuvalova and CM Aarit Kapil may be worlds apart in age and experience, but both have reached the same milestone: 3000 blitz on Chess.com—Shuvalova as the first woman, and Kapil as the youngest ever.
For most Chess.com members, b...
GM Fabiano Caruana ended his curse against GM Hikaru Nakamura when it mattered most by battling to a six-hour win in round one of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. There were two more wins, with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu surprising GM Anish ...
Turkiye's GM Ediz Gurel created Bullet Brawl history on Saturday after joining the arena 34 minutes late and still winning the event. Gurel finished ahead of 162 titled players, including the five-time world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, who also j...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 and FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2026 start this Sunday, on March 29, and they are the two most important over-the-board tournaments of the year. Each of them will determine a challenger for the world...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued a major ruling against the Chess Federation of Russia (CFR), ordering it to cease chess activities in occupied Ukrainian territories within 90 days—or face a three-year suspension from the ...
Since GM Jose Martinez won the inaugural 3 0 Thursday tournament in November, GM Fabiano Caruana has been the only player to win more than one of the three weekly events on the same day. Martinez joined him in impressive fashion on Thursday, March...