15-year-old IM Shreyas Royal, who faced eviction from the United Kingdom eight years ago due to his father's expiring work visa, has now achieved his dream of becoming the youngest British chess grandmaster in history.
Royal is set to beco...
Bullet Brawl's third most prolific winner, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, added a seventh title to his resume and won $400 after outlasting Chess.com hyperbullet champion GM Andrew Tang and 21-time Bullet Brawl winner GM Daniel Naroditsky on Saturday. 14-y...
GM Daniil Dubov's only win of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships saw his team Al-Ain ACMG UAE take gold in a nailbiting finish. World Champion Ding Liren's Decade China Team took silver, with Pang Bo scoring 11/11 on board six, wh...
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...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen bounced back to beat GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren on day two of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, but his team WR Chess trails Al-Ain ACMG UAE by three points. GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the sta...
GM Luca Moroni Jr. has been crowned as Chess.com's top wizard after toppling IM Nhat Minh To in a grandfinal reset in the 2024 Spell Chess Championship. Moroni, who was the only GM to qualify for the knockout, won $600 for his first-place finish a...
GM Richard Rapport scored a stunning victory over World Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen as WR Chess, the defending champions and heavy favorites to win the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, sank to a 1-5 loss to fourth-seeded Chessy. ...
Missed your morning alarm? Heart beating out of your chest? Thought you’d overslept an exam? Well, my friend, this is not a drill. You’ve been enrolled at The Gambit Academy and your chess skills are ready to be tested. Can you defeat ...
Chess.com is excited to announce we're once more partnering with legendary GM Judit Polgar to support the 2024 Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival. The event will take place on September 17 at the Hungarian National Gallery and on September 18 at...
Potions and magic trumped ratings and titles in the 2024 Spell Chess Championship qualifiers as eight players with FIDE ratings between 1800 and 2558 booked their spots in the $2,000 Chess.com Community Championship Series knockout which will take...