A new study by Chess.com's Fair Play Team has estimated the cheating rate in Titled Tuesday to be less than 2% for most events. However, the platform is introducing a new public closure policy to underscore the commitment to combat cheating.
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GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Dmitry Andreikin won their matches on day two of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 to make it into th...
The US Chess Federation announced on Monday that Shama Yisrael, a 20-year-old from Florida, has crossed the 2200 USCF rating barrier and will become the first female, African-American national master in the country's history when the rating lists ...
International chess arbiter Arild Rimestad from Denmark has been given a two-year ban by the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) following multiple reports of sexual harassment against a female FIDE employee.
In its decision dated July...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Abhimanyu Mishra both won again in round two of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival despite being the lowest-rated players in their groups. Mishra leads the Masters after a long, grinding win against GM Sam Shankland, while Va...
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GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura, and Mikhail Antipov finished in a three-way tie with 7/9 in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Play-in, but it was Nepomniachtchi who had...
Get your potions ready! We're excited to announce the 2024 Spell Chess Championship, the next installment of this year's Chess.com Community Championships. Starting on August 1, anyone can be the next Chess.com Spell Chess Champion—and take ...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on July 16 outright with 10 points, his first since 2022. GM Javokhir Sindarov then won his first-ever Titled Tuesday late in a shocking turn of events. Like Xiong, Sindarov scored 10 points...
The Kids, WFM Bodhana Sivanandan and CM Antoni Radzimski, defeated the Stars, WGM Nemo Zhou and FM Anna-Maja Kazarian, by a five-point margin in the second edition of Kids vs. Stars.
While the Stars scored their share of victories, the Kid...
Lowest-seed GM Vaishali Rameshbabu stunned top-seed GM Jonas Bjerre to win with Black in the first classical games of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers, but her brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu suffered the opposite fate. The top seed i...