GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi maintain their lead in the 2022 Candidates Tournament with 1.5/2. The eight candidates are fighting for the right to challenge GM Magnus Carlsen for the title of world champion. Round three begins at...
The Chess.com College Ambassador Program (CAP) was announced in early April, and the Summer Season has only just begun! Our Summer Season is a fun and rewarding way to keep college chess clubs active over the summer and give chess-loving college s...
The first round of the 2022 Candidates Tournament is in the books, with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi taking the lead. The eight candidates are fighting for the right to challenge GM Magnus Carlsen for the title of world champion.&nbs...
The first round of the 2022 Candidates Tournament begins at 6 a.m. Pacific/15:00 Central Europe. The eyes of the chess world are fixed on Madrid as the eight candidates are about to show what they have prepared for the most important tournament of...
More than any other chess event, the FIDE Candidates Tournament, which starts on Friday in Madrid, Spain, is a winner-takes-all tournament. Finishing first, and only first, means facing World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a match. GM Fabiano Caruana,...
Titled Tuesday on June 14 was won by American GM Jeffery Xiong in the early tournament and Ukrainian GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy in the late tournament. Both players won outright with scores of 9.5/11. Bernadskiy, seeded 51st in the late field, defeated...
IM Vaishali R defeated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion, IM Bibisara Assaubayeva, in the first round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Vaishali led through the blitz games but had to fight ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 17 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in the final blitz tiebreaker.
GMs Levon Aronian and Olexandr Bortnyk made it to the semifinals. GMs Hikaru ...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament.
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 18 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, edging out four other grandmasters by tiebreaks.
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"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess.
The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...