Rejoice, daily chess fans: The 2026 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship (DCC) is now open for registration! It will soon be that time again for one of the biggest events of the Chess.com calendar. But even if you've never played daily chess before,...
The Ukrainian Open Team and the Polish Women's team lead the 2025 European Team Championships after round five of the nine-round event. The tournament is a semi-annual competition between European nations and a good test for countries to test line...
GM Viswanathan Anand had over a minute on his clock in a winning position but lost on time to GM Garry Kasparov as day two of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends got off to the worst possible start for the Indian legend. Kasparov went on to…
KiriyamaKazuo, coached by IM David Pruess, won the u1600 tournament of CoachChamps 2025 with 6/7. With only one loss in round four, against frank, coached by WGM Dina Belenkaya, he otherwise kept control throughout the entire event.
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We're excited to announce a series of changes to improve your puzzle-solving experience! We've reworked our Puzzles rating system so it's more reliable—giving you smoother level progression and generally more satisfying experience when solvi...
13th World Champion Garry Kasparov leads 15th World Champion Viswanathan Anand 2.5-1.5 after day one of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends, a three-day clash taking place 30 years after their world championship match. After two draws in rapid chess, Ka...
QQQ1M, IM Levy Rozman's student, dominated the second day of CoachChamps 2025, which featured the rating range of improvers between 800 and 1199. Playing quickly, the Algerian youngster and GothamChess fan—who displays his coach in his profi...
Nabbollini, student of GM Arturs Neiksans, won the u800 round-robin tournament in the inaugural CoachChamps 2025. Though he won with a 5.5/7 score, it wasn't totally smooth sailing. Hhart10k, IM Levy Rozman's student, beat him in the penultimate r...
GM Alireza Firouzja won a tense Titled Tuesday on October 7, taking it on tiebreaks ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda after they all posted a 9.5/11 score. GM Xiao Tong, a 16-year old grandmaster rated over 3100 in Chess.com...
WFM Anna Cramling blundered a piece against 12-year-old Zac Chua from Canada and didn't realize until three moves later, but she shrugged off that slip-up to win the 6th episode of Kids vs. Stars 2.5-1.5. "I would rather go skydiving!" she said of...