GM Hikaru Nakamura and Kick are thrilled to present Chess 4 The Masses Sponsored by Kick, a two-tournament event for untitled players that will begin on January 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET/18:00 CET, following in the footsteps of past collaborations betwee...
For the first time since its inception, GM Ray Robson is not the winner of the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Championship. Fourteen-year-old GM Andy Woodward, who was the runner-up in 2024, reversed the narrative this year. He also picked up $1,500 ...
We're excited to announce our newest event, the NextGen Cup! The $20,000 event will take place on February 6 and feature 10 of the African diaspora's most prominent players and personalities.
Among the confirmed players, fans will see boy-...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju will play his first official game as world champion against GM Anish Giri on Saturday as the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters begins. Half of the top-10 are in action, with Gukesh joined by GMs Fabiano Caruana, Arjun Erigaisi, Nod...
GMs Ray Robson, Daniel Naroditsky, Pranav Venkatesh, Raunak Sadhwani, and Ray Robson, as well as IMs Liam Putnam, Yoseph Theolifus Taher, Anthony Atasanov, have qualified for the eight-player Knockout in the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Championship.
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World Chess Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Viswanathan Anand's talents extend beyond the chessboard, as they demonstrated in a hilarious new video ad.
Gukesh has been doing anything but playing chess since winning the title from GM Ding Lir...
On January 14, Titled Tuesday cracked 900 participants for the first time since June 2, 2020, with a total of 905 players. It was the second straight week setting the doubles era record (since February 1, 2022). Out of those 905 hopeful winners, t...
We're excited to announce Freestyle Friday, the new weekly tournament for Titled Players presented by Freestyle Chess. The event will take place every Friday at 11 a.m. ET / 17:00 CET / 9:30 p.m. IST starting January 24 and feature a $1,000 prize ...
A major cheating scandal has rocked the world of Chinese chess and tarnished the reputation of one of China's most cherished traditional games. A number of the game's best players have been handed lifetime bans.
Chinese chess, also known as Xian...
"It's of course very, very nice to start off married life as a chess player with a win!” said GM Magnus Carlsen after beating GM Max Warmerdam in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday. His first classical game in almost four months helped St. Pauli ...