GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave led the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after day one, but GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi caught up to him to join a three-way tie after six rounds. Of the other seven players, GM Fabiano Caruana was the o...
FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing several top female players, some of them children, by sending them obscene letters for over a d...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his 26th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize after scoring 268 points and staving off a challenge from GM Daniel Naroditsky (253) on Friday. Rounding out the podium and claiming the $150 third prize was GM Andrew Tan...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju was gifted a car on Saturday at a spectacular celebration held by his school, Velammal Vidyalaya, on their Mel Ayanambakkam campus in Chennai. The world championship challenger turned 18 this year, which means he'll be able to ...
GM Luca Moroni Jr. has been crowned as Chess.com's top wizard after toppling IM Nhat Minh To in the Grand Final Reset of the 2024 Spell Chess Championship. Moroni, who was the only GM to qualify for the knockout, won $600 for his first-place finis...
Sehba Shah overcame a severe physical handicap to become Pakistan Women's Champion. The 59-year-old will now lead the national team competing in the biggest chess event on the calendar.
The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which takes place in Hungary'...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader of the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of rapid games. After escaping vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura and turning the tide vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the French grandmaster defeated...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
Are you ready for piece placement pandemonium? Chess.com is excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship! Starting on August 19, anyone can battle for a piece of this month's...
We're excited to announce that registrations for the Fall 2024 season of the Collegiate Chess League are now open! The event features once more the beloved four vs. four team format, a hefty $25,000 prize fund, and presenting partner Susquehanna, ...