The University of the Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) started the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) playoffs with a bang against the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Athens entered the playoffs with a better regular season record but UT...
We're excited to announce the fourth installment of this year's Chess.com Community Championships! The Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship takes place March 27 and 28 and features a $2,500 prize fund.
Atomic Chess is not for the faint of heart. ...
After four more draws in the classical portion, all of the matches in The American Cup 2025 Open went to blitz playoffs. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian have advanced to the Champions Semifinals. Th...
GM Zhu Jiner has taken the sole lead in the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 2/2 after GM Elisabeth Paehtz made one fatal move in an endgame she seemed to be holding. Only IM Stavroula Tsolakidou is within half a point after surviving…
All four games in the 2025 American Cup Open ended in draws, but the top two seeds, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, missed critical chances in their games against, respectively, GMs Abhimanyu Mishra and Ray Robson.
In stark contrast, th...
GM Andrew Tang's purple patch has continued, with the hyperbullet exponent capturing his fourth Bullet Brawl title of 2025 and eighth overall after scoring 249 points. Tang eclipsed the scores of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Daniel Naroditsky, Arjun Eri...
IM Stavroula Tsolakidou pounced on a mistake by GM Elisabeth Paehtz to pick up a full point as the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix began. She was joined in the early lead by GM Zhu Jiner, who replaces her Chinese compatriot GM Lei Tingjie…
GM Vidit Gujrathi beat GMs Amin Tabatabaei and Richard Rapport to become the 12th and final qualifier for the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam that takes place April 7-14. He'll join fellow Indian stars World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs...
It was naturally a lot harder than winning one game of tic-tac-toe, but GM Arjun Erigaisi has nonetheless won three consecutive Freestyle Friday tournaments. Arjun, who is not a Chess960 specialist per se, is sure treating this variant as a p...
We're excited to announce Magnus vs. The World, an exclusive Vote Chess match between world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen and members of the Chess.com community. The event starts on April 4 and will mark the first time Carlsen ever participates in ...