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...
FM Brandon Burrows achieved his first IM norm by winning one game and making nine draws that lasted an average of 10 moves. Now the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has invalidated the Las Vegas tournament and US Chess has confirmed an investigation ...
It may not be a record, but the world has a new youngest grandmaster—14-year-old Ukrainian prodigy GM Ihor Samunenkov.
The teenager’s title has been confirmed by the world chess federation FIDE this month after he met all the require...
A draw in the fifth round was enough for GM Anish Giri to increase his lead to a full point at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Runner-up GM Alireza Firouzja suffered an unexpected loss against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun, who won a pawn...
Norway Chess always charms the year as one of the most compelling events to look out for, and 2024 is no different. 5-time winner and World no.1 GM Magnus Carlsen, last year's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura and the 17th World Champion GM Ding Liren ele...
There is no drama, and all the players have been consulted—that was the message from the world chess federation FIDE to dampen down any suggestion of controversy after the new regulations were released for its flagship Candidates tournament....
As Titled Tuesday gets more crowded, with 700+ players in the early tournament and 500+ in the late tournament both of the last two weeks, ties atop the standings seem to be getting more commonplace. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave emerged from a five-w...