Chess.com returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last weekend, hosting a packed program that explored chess, AI, and the intersection of mental and physical performance.
The annual gathering of leading sports executives,...
IM Alice Lee is once again the champion of The Women's American Cup 2026 for the third year in a row. IM Carissa Yip won the first Grand Final match on Wednesday, but in the Grand Final Reset, Lee won the first rapid game and…
GM Wesley So won his maiden title in The American Cup 2026 on Wednesday. After winning the first game against GM Levon Aronian, he held the necessary draw in game two to secure the match. He makes $75,000 plus another $15,000 bonus for winning the...
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the next game on...
The University Of Texas At Dallas (UTD) was the top team in the Fall 2025 regular season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). However, in the playoffs, they fell just short, losing to St. Louis University (SLU) in the finals, 8.5-7.5. In the spri...
Eleven-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan has added another milestone to her rapidly growing chess career, surpassing the 2300 rating barrier for the first time to secure the FM title. The British prodigy is now higher-rated at the same age as GM Jud...
GM Sina Movahed, the 15-year-old Iranian grandmaster coming off of victory in the Under-16 ChessKid Youth Championship, became the first player to score 10.5 points in a Titled Tuesday in 2026 on March 10, going to wire-to-wire to win the tourname...
GM Sina Movahed defeated last year's champion, GM Yagiz Erdogmus, in the 2026 ChessKid Youth Championship U16 finals. The two teenage GMs tied for first place in the A Group in the preliminary round robin tournament, before defeating the top finis...
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in…
Andrey Volgin defeated Henry Michael through the Final Reset route to win the eight-player final of the Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship 2026. Michael defeated Volgin in a fight between the two untitled players in the Winners Final of the doubl...