IM Nazi Paikidze and GM Sam Sevian are the sole leaders after the opening day of the U.S. Championships in St. Louis.
Paikidze scored the only victory in the women's division, defeating FM Ashritha Eswaran in tactical slugfest that featured thre...
Parents and mentors often believe that girls have a lower potential in chess than boys, a bias that is more pronounced among those who think chess success requires brilliance. These findings, the first large-scale evidence of bias against youth fe...
You can't keep GM Hikaru Namakura down for long. He won the early Titled Tuesday on October 3, his first since a perfect score on August 22 and his 57th overall since October 2020. Nakamura then nearly won the late event as well, but it…
The influential St. Louis Chess Club admits they've "remained silent for too long" and says that they "should have done more to address the allegations" of sexual misconduct against GM Alejandro Ramirez.
229 days after two-time U.S. Women'...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his third SCC title after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 13.5-12.5 in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase.
The match had many phases. Carlsen got off to a strong start, taking a two-...
Anastasios Koukas and Michael Duke emerged at the top of the 2000+ section in the qualifiers on Saturday and Sunday for the ChessPunks Champs 2023.
In the 1700-1999 division, EvertonEejit clinched the first qualifier with a round to spare ...
Athletes don't stop competing when their game ends! As Chess.com continues to engage with colleges and universities to bring the game of chess to more and more campuses, we've also found that football players seem to love the rich game of chess as...
A destructive performance by the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) has placed the three-GM team atop the lead after two weeks of play. Board two GM Mikhail Antipov surged to 4/4 while Mizzou's board one GM G...
It's the spookiest month of the year, October! To celebrate, we're re-launching five new versions of some of our most popular bots. Go to our Play Computer page to battle against Martin, Filip, Laura, Isla, and Morphy in all of their new glory.&nb...
GM Daniel Naroditsky was crowned as the winner of September's last Bullet Brawl after amassing a score of 288, 54 points ahead of the second-placed GM Hikaru Nakamura and third-placed GM Pranav Venkatesh. The total of 78 wins, three draws, an...