ChessKid Stars, IM Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match.
Starting off with a three-game winning streak, the p...
The London Chess Classic will return with its 13th edition this December in a field headed by Indian prodigy GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The event could potentially be decisive for the 18-year-old's hunt for a Candidates spot.
The return of the flagshi...
GM Ray Robson leads the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 11/18 in the rapid segment. 3/6 was enough for Robson to maintain the lead on Thursday, but GM Fabiano Caruana, who scored 4/6 on day three, looms one point shy of the…
GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 to secure her spot in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final.
The 22-game match saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one point at the end of each of the first two...
Chess.com is excited to announce the newest addition to our lineup of athlete chess bots, the Spanish tennis phenom Carlos Alcaraz. You can challenge the young prodigy on our Play Computer page.
But beware: Alcaraz will bring to the che...
GM Ray Robson scored a crucial win over GM Alireza Firouzja in round six of the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on the white side of the King's Indian Defense: Makogonov Variation on Wednesday.
Robson entered the sole lead thanks to day-one l...
GM Vincent Keymer celebrated his 19th birthday with a win over Armenia's GM Haik Martirosyan that gave Germany the sole lead after round five of the 2023 European Team Chess Championship and took the young star up to world number-17 on the live ra...
After standing for nearly four years, the record for the highest blitz rating on Chess.com (previously 3332) has twice been beaten by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura posted new rating highs of 3334 and 3336 while streaming live on Kick on Monday and ...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk advances to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating IM Vaishali Rameshbabu 13-8. She will play GM Hou Yifan in the Semifinals on Thursday.
The "Chess Queen," who's also participatin...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his first Titled Tuesday in over a month in the first tournament of November 14, while GM Arjun Erigaisi won his first ever in the late event. Both scored 9.5 points out of 11. Nakamura, coming off a peak record-breaking 333...