The State of Chess returned on Thursday with several important updates. Chief Chess Officer Danny Rensch led the discussion that focused on community updates, fair play changes, site updates, and big media developments.
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Two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu narrowly avoided a last-round disaster against Julia Schulman to win the 2024 Botez Chess Camp with a dominant 6/7, half a point ahead of WFM Alexandra Botez. Co-organizer Alexandra won her last four ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2024 edition of the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship, Chess.com's premier chess event for women. This year's event will feature an expanded field of 16 of the strongest women chess players in the wo...
For the first time, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu has broken the 2500 barrier officially, with an 11th place on the August 2024 FIDE rating list. FIDE World Championship contender GM Gukesh Dommaraju returned to being the sixth highest-rated player in th...
GMs Hans Niemann and Fabiano Caruana move on to the Quarterfinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating, respectively, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexey Sarana in the last two round of 16 matches of the season.
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The world's official top two blitz players, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja, won the two Titled Tuesday tournaments on July 30. Firouzja won the early tournament, his third victory of the year, and Carlsen took his fifth win late.
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You can now play chess against Wallows, the indie rock band composed of Braeden Lemasters, Cole Preston, and Dylan Minnette. Their new bot is now available on our Play Computer page in the Musicians section.
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With just over half the year behind us, 2024 has already treated us to several masterpieces on the 64 squares. In this article, we review the seven best games of the year so far.
The games are listed in sequential order, starting with the beginn...
GM Alireza Firouzja kicked off his Speed Chess Championship 2024 campaign in style with a 13.5-10.5 Round of 16 victory over GM Alexander Grischuk in a match that was packed to the brim with enterprising opening play and time scrambles.
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Twitch streamer and IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher became the ninth player to win Bullet Brawl, scoring 72.5/86 and securing the $400 first prize ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky on International Chess Day. Peru's IM Renato Terry picked up the $150 third ...