GM Alireza Firouzja's topsy-turvy Tata Steel Chess Tournament continued on Sunday with another bounce-back victory, this time good enough to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in first place. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is not in that group any...
Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia has earned his place in the history books by becoming the first player under the age of nine to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess.
The chess world has recently been witnessing a surge in children scoring e...
The 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) kicked off on Saturday with two telling matchups. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley gained vengence vs. their UT counterparts in Dallas, led by top scorer IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux with 3.5/4.
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Black was more than OK in Saturday's opening round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament as GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Wei Yi all started with wins with the black pieces. The Challengers group also saw four de...
GM Ray Robson did it again, winning his fifth consecutive title at the 2024 Puzzles World Championship. The undisputed G.O.A.T. of Puzzle Rush has won every edition of this tournament since it started in 2020.
This seemed to be his toughest year...
With six rounds to go, the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament is wide open again after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Anish Giri on Saturday. In doing so, the 19-year-old Uzbek grandmaster caught Giri in first place. Soon after, GM Gukesh Dommaraj...
With the 2024 Candidates Tournament mere months away, GM Hikaru Nakamura has shown no signs of reducing his online tournament participation, taking out January's third Bullet Brawl with a commanding score of 269. Amassing 72 in two hours, Nakamura...
According to many (including GM Magnus Carlsen), GM Garry Kasparov is still the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in chess. Today, it is exactly 25 years since Kasparov played his most famous and possibly best ever game, against GM Veselin Topalov in Wi...
GM Alireza Firouzja is trailing GM Anish Giri by half a point again after Friday's sixth round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. While the tournament leader missed several chances to beat GM Parham Maghsoodloo, Firouzja did score the full p...
ChessKid, the scholastic extension of Chess.com aimed at a younger target audience, has reached the milestone of 10,000,000 individual child accounts.
To celebrate the achievement, ChessKid is offering free access to its Gold membership fe...