GMs Pranesh M and Yu Yangyi qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-In 2 on Wednesday. Pranesh advanced directly by having better tiebreaks than GM Wesley So, the only other player to finish on 7.5/9. Yu, who finished the ...
Titled Tuesday on March 17 was decided on the clock, as GM Nihal Sarin took home the victory with a final-round win over GM Nils Grandelius, with just 0.7 seconds remaining when Grandelius' time expired in a drawn rook ending. Nihal started 8/8 an...
The State of Chess show returns on March 24, when Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch will once again share updates on Chess.com and the broader chess world. The show is also where you can ask us questions directly and get answers live during the…
Arsenal and England playmaker Eberechi Eze goes head-to-head against none other than GM Magnus Carlsen in a new ad for clothing brand New Balance. In a surprise twist, the world number-one gets checkmated!
The campaign, promoting New Balance&rsq...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So advance to the Champions Final of The American Cup 2026. After making draws in the classical portion, they overcame GMs Awonder Liang and Sam Sevian in blitz tiebreaks 1.5-0.5 each, respectively. In the Eliminatio...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-in 1 on Monday. Nepomniachtchi won the tournament outright, while Abdusattorov finished second and secured his spot by defeating third-pla...
GM Awonder Liang beat GM Hikaru Nakamura 6-4 in the Hikaru vs. Awonder Candidates Training Match held in the Saint Louis Chess Club on March 13-15, 2026. The players made two draws in classical chess, then Liang won 3-1 in rapid, before the final ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk entered the Bullet Brawl ring and emerged victorious for the second week in a row on Saturday after storming home and posting a score of 161 points, pocketing the $400 first prize for the 16th time.
In second place was GM Ar...
GM Pranav Venkatesh won his first Freestyle Friday of the new Freestyle Friday Championship on March 13, taking it outright with 9.5/11, as four different players have now won the first four tournaments of the new stakes (qualification for the 202...
Netflix has released the teaser for its upcoming documentary Untold: Chessmates, sparking widespread reactions across the chess world less than a month before its full release.
The 71-second clip, released on March 10, gives a first preview of t...