The recent decision by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change the long-debated 400-point rule for top grandmasters has sparked an outcry, with accusations of "stealing" rating points and warnings that the system is losing credibi...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals to earn $150,000, with the runner-up GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave taking the second $100,000 prize. Vachier-Lagrave won the first game, but Caruana went on a rampage to win three games in a row ...
GM Pranesh M won Freestyle Friday (his first) with a round to spare on October 3, gliding to a 9.5/10 start in the field of 116 players. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in second place with nine points after becoming the first player to finally beat...
WFM Anna Cramling is about to go around the world in four boards in the next episode of Kids vs. Stars! The popular streamer from Sweden will take on four kids from different continents in a clock simul on October 6, starting at 12 p.m.…
GM Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, scored a 6-0 clean sweep in a simultaneous display as her Global Chess Festival celebrated its 11th edition. The event, staged on September 30 in Budapest, attracted thousands of visit...
Both matches in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals enter the rapid and blitz portion with even scores. In the title match, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave squeezed for a bit but got no advantage against GM Fabiano Caruana in a rook endgame. GM Praggnanand...
Chess.com is excited to partner with Perplexity, the developer behind the cutting-edge, AI-integrated web browser Comet. The collaboration is designed to bring amazing benefits to our community, and will feature the 2025 Comet Open, a high-stakes ...
Despite the end result, game one of the title match between GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals was a true, five-hour-long struggle. Caruana reached a winning queen endgame, but it was too difficult t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's wins in state championships have taken him back to 2816, a peak he reached exactly a decade ago, but also provoked FIDE to change its rules. Elsewhere GM Anish Giri's victory in the FIDE Grand Swiss took him up to world number...
Arena Kings got a fresh new start on October 1; the new monthly version of Arena Kings continues to showcase the Chess.com streaming community as it always has, and only adds to that sense of community by allowing players to join together in a lar...