After years of uncertainty, 12-year-old FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family have been officially granted political asylum in the United States. The family fled from Nigeria to the U.S. in 2017 after Adewumi's father became a target of a religious...
On December 15, 2022, FIDE announced the paths of qualification for the next Candidates Tournament, which will be held in 2024 and will determine the challenger in the 2024 World Championship. The paths are:
Runner-up at the 2023 World Champio...
The showdown between two of Chess.com's pre-eminent blitz and bullet chess players in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship was comfortably won by GM Hikaru Nakamura on Thursday.
The defending champion took an early lead over GM Nihal Sarin and neve...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame GM Wesley So in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Early in the match, Vachier-Lagrave gained as high as a four-point lead, but So fought back to even the score in the bullet segment. With just ...
GM Nihal Sarin edged out GM Anish Giri in a tiebreak playoff in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. The two tenacious grandmasters created one brilliancy after another as they grappled for a spot in the quarterfinals.
GMs Wesley So a...
The December 13 edition of Titled Tuesday ended with two familiar winners, GMs Daniil Dubov and Hikaru Nakamura. Both won their tournaments outright.
Early Tournament (Dubov)
Late Tournament (Nakamura)
Early Tournament
Dubov outlasted t...
GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was crowned the winner of the 2022 Julius Baer Challenger Championship on Tuesday after overcoming rising star GM Pranav Venkatesh, requiring only three of their four scheduled mini-matches to do so.
Praggnanandhaa w...
The annual Chess.com Daily Chess Championship is back for 2023. Over 12,000 players have already signed up for the event, and that number continues to climb!
Do you want to join the largest tournament of the year? Then the Chess.com Daily Chess ...
GM Magnus Carlsen bested GM Fabiano Caruana with an undefeated 18-point lead in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Carlsen achieved this unprecedented feat by excelling at every facet of the game, including his trademark skill of capita...
Following a controversial ruling at the Mogul Chessboxing Championship, which took place on Sunday, the organizer's Twitter account "Mogul Moves" announced an updated result on Tuesday regarding the match between WGM Dina Belenkaya and Andrea Bote...