Registration is now open for the Spring 2024 season of the Collegiate Chess League! The world's premier university-level chess event returns next year, retaining its four vs. four team-based format and a $25,000 prize fund. The Collegiat...
The highly-anticipated 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals begin in just three days on December 9. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja, and Denis Lazavik are...
Less than a month after GM Hikaru Nakamura set a new record for Chess.com's highest blitz rating, GM Magnus Carlsen has gone one step further. On Wednesday, Carlsen achieved the all-time-high blitz rating of 3340, four points higher than Nakamura'...
GM Fabiano Caruana added the 2023 Sinquefield Cup to his year of victories on Thursday. In his final round vs. GM Richard Rapport, Caruana combined strategic clarity with dynamic execution to break his opponent's defenses.
Caruana dominate...
Recent Titled Tuesdays have been a time for the long-established veterans of the chess world to remind everyone they're not done yet. December 5 was no exception, with GM Levon Aronian and GM Magnus Carlsen both winning a tournament outright,...
The third ESpot B-Cup is scheduled to take place on December 9, 2023. This unique event blends online and in-person chess with the exciting addition of a live audience; it’s competitive chess, but not quite as you know it!
An additional to...
GM Mateusz Bartel beat IM Shreyas Royal in round five of the 2023 London Chess Classic to move into a four-way tie for second place. The sole leader, half a point clear, remains GM Michael Adams, but the England star seemed to miss a huge cha...
GM Leinier Dominguez made a sudden entry into the Candidates race. Now FIDE has responded to the criticism after their clarification of the rules drew reactions from the chess community.
With less than a month left in 2023, the race to the Candi...
GM Hans Niemann sacrificed a knight and two rooks to beat IM Shreyas Royal in round four of the 2023 London Chess Classic before commenting, "the sound of chess speaking overpowers jealousy." The day's other headline news was GM Gukesh Dommaraju b...
Chess.com is excited to announce our new upgrade to the move list feature. The new move list is now cleaner and clearer, making it easier for you to follow variations and annotations or to analyze your own games. It also resembles the move list yo...