Chess.com and Lichess will halt their relationships with St. Louis Chess Club and no longer provide support for or cover any of their tournaments in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct, The Wall Street Journal revealed on Wednesday.
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The last classical games of the 2023 FIDE World Cup could not have been more different from each other. In the final between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the drawn outcome was predicted as early as move five, while in the th...
After GM Hikaru Nakamura scored the first 11/11 in Titled Tuesday history on August 17, 2021, it took 98 weeks for someone to repeat the feat until GM Magnus Carlsen finally did so on July 4, 2023. But audiences only had to wait seven weeks f...
Go ahead ChessPunk, make my day! Now that the superb PogChamps 5 tournament is over, Chess.com is delighted to announce another exciting amateur event kicking off next month.
ChessPunks Champs is the new PogChamps-style event for all of us norma...
GM Vidit Gujrathi outplayed number-four seed GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round-five tiebreaks to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, so that half of the remaining field now hails from the rising chess powerhouse of India.
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Universally recognized as the single greatest woman to ever play chess, in outlets ranging from the New York Times in 1997 to Chess.com in 2021, GM Judit Polgar is now ready to share the best games of her career as you've never seen them before......
Neither player made progress toward their first World Cup victory as GM Magnus Carlsen held GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to a draw in the first game of the 2023 FIDE World Cup final. A well-prepared Praggnanandhaa posed some problems to the ...
GMs Yu Yangyi and Vidit Gujrathi have made it into the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after claiming two spots in the first Qualifier on Tuesday.
Yu finished second in the Swiss on day one and, on the second day, w...
Indian sensation GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will play world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in the final of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after the 18-year-old defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 in a semifinal decided by a single tiebreak win.
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GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...