In the most active Titled Tuesday since August, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov took home the victory with a 9.5/11 score, winning on the tiebreak system over second-place finisher GM Dmitrij Kollars. In a logjam on 9 points out of 11, two well-known GMs t...
GM Richard Rapport prevailed against GM Alexey Sarana 16.5-14.5 in a marathon 31-game match in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event and moves on to the quarterfinals. Rapport will face the winner of the next round of 16 match between GMs A...
There is no doubt that GM Fabiano Caruana is one of the strongest chess players in history. Since his dominant performance at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup, where he famously started with 7/7 in a field with a 2800 rating average before winning the tou...
It was a doubleheader Thursday at the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event with two matches: GM Alexander Grischuk vs GM Nihal Sarin followed by GM Levon Aronian vs GM Daniil Dubov. Nihal upstaged Grischuk impressively and will face GM Richard...
With the regular season over, the teams' standings have been finalized, and the playoff brackets have been set. The playoffs are finally here, and teams will fight for their share of the $25,000 prize pool. Be sure to tune in and watch the ultimat...
The second match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event went down to the wire as GM Ding Liren and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov fought a hotly contested battle. The Chinese GM ultimately won with a final score of 14-12 (an identical result to...
IM Levy Rozman, the popular streamer and content creator behind GothamChess, has recently announced the winners for his $100,000 chess scholarship program.
In a partnership with ChessKid.com, the scholastic branch of Chess.com, Rozman recently c...
In a thrilling opening match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event, GM Anish Giri defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with a final score of 14-12. The next match, between GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Ding Liren, starts on Tuesday, November 9...
GM Kirill Shevchenko became the surprise winner of the Lindores Abbey Blitz tournament in Riga, Latvia. The 19-year-old grandmaster from Ukraine clinched the $10,000 first prize as he finished half a point clear of GMs Fabiano Caruana ($8,000) and...
GM Alireza Firouzja won the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss on Sunday in Riga. The French-Iranian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 8/11 after all the key games ended in draws in the final round. Firouzja qualified for the 2022 FIDE Can...