Eight years after a freak accident left him paralyzed, Noland Arbaugh is not only playing chess with the help of a chip in his brain but he's also invited by Chess.com to attend the Speed Chess Championship Finals in Paris and meet the world's che...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is moving from its traditional 21-round Swiss format in the 2024 World Blitz Championship in New York, introducing a combined Swiss and knockout format.
Just a week after FIDE announced a change of sched...
French WGM Andreaa Navrotescu achieved a feat that not even GM Magnus Carlsen could achieve before her. She won an event with a perfect 9/9 score.
Chess.com regularly covers impressive performances from the chess world, but there are times when ...
Four-time World Champion Ju Wenjun won the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Polina Shuvalova in the Final. The final score was 12.5-9.5 and Ju won every one of the three segments by a point.
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IM Polina Shuvalova and four-time World Champion Ju Wenjun are the two finalists of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova defeated GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 11.5-9.5 in a close match, while Ju nearly doubled GM Kateryna Lag...
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The first Titled Tuedays of September went to two regulars, GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, who both scored 10 points. It was Sarana's fourth win of the year and Deac's second. Sarana needed tiebreaks over GM Ian Nepomniachtchi...
GM Andreas Dueckstein, an Austrian grandmaster known as a dangerous attacker who defeated world champions Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik and Boris Spassky, died peacefully on August 28 at the age of 97. The news was confirmed by the Austrian chess fe...
IM Brewington Hardaway edged one giant step closer to becoming a grandmaster as he earned his final norm in Barcelona last week. The 15-year-old now only has one hurdle left to cross before he would make history as the second African American with...
The upcoming 2024 FIDE World Championship between defending champion GM Ding Liren and the youngest challenger in history, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, will have a few differences from previous editions. FIDE has announced the official regulations, i...