IM V Pranav won the Qualifier 2 Swiss stage of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Monday, making him the only non-GM to advance to the knockout in either qualifier.
GMs Alexey Sarana, Vladislav Kovalev, Vincent Keymer, David Nav...
In the latest episode of his popular podcast, the American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman had a fascinating, two-and-a-half-hour conversation with GM Magnus Carlsen. The two discussed a wide variety of topics...
The halfway point of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz came to a close on Sunday with GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firouzja perched atop the leaderboard. An undefeated run with two wins was requisite for Vachier-Lagrave to join his ...
The 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz continued on Saturday with rounds four-six of the rapid segment taking place, and GM Alireza Firouzja is holding onto the top spot by a single point. An early scare against GM Fabiano Caruana almost saw his l...
Top-flight chess returned to one of America's premier chess venues on Friday with the commencement of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the penultimate event of the Grand Chess Tour, with the day's proceedings going the way of French GM Alir...
Mark your calendars for August 27-28 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CEST: PogChamps star Ludwig will be hosting the "dumbest" chess tournament yet. Yes, you read that right—Ludwig's Dumb Chess Tournament is coming this weekend! It is a collaboratio...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev defeated GM Eric Hansen in the Qualifier 1 final of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. These two imaginative and tenacious players fought to an armageddon playoff in this captivating chess variant.
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IM Tuan Minh Le won the early Titled Tuesday on August 23 with 9.5/11 and the best tiebreaks ahead of GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Aleskandr Lenderman. In the late event, GM Daniil Dubov finished first in the late event ahead of GM Jeffery Xiong on…
Chess.com is excited to announce that we have submitted an offer for Play Magnus Group (PMG) to join Chess.com. Magnus Carlsen and the management at Play Magnus are enthusiastic and have accepted the offer. We expect that it will take about 6-8 we...
GMs Eric Hansen and Vladimir Fedoseev advanced to the Qualifier 1 final of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Tuesday. Though they achieved the same result, the two players had vastly different journeys. Hansen literally danced to ...