GM Magnus Carlsen became only the second player, and first in nearly two years, to score a perfect 11/11 in Titled Tuesday, achieving the feat in the late tournament on July 4, 2023. He won the event by two full points—a half-point better th...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had to fight hard to hold a draw in game one of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship Match after challenger GM Lei Tingjie opened with an aggressive pawn sacrifice in her first-ever match at the very highest le...
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. This means that, at least for the moment, the legal battle that follow...
GM Fabiano Caruana has been crowned the winner of the 2023 No Castling World Masters after scoring 4/6 in a double round-robin classical tournament in Dortmund, Germany, and finishing half a point ahead of GM Vladimir Kramnik.
As part of the 50t...
Chess.com’s blistering Bullet Chess Championship is back with a star-studded posse of the fastest gunslingers in the game ready to duel. This year’s quickfire one-minute chess tournament, which runs July 17 to 21, boasts its strongest ...
The Triveni Continental Kings completed their comeback story with a victory in the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 that went all the way down to sudden death. 19-year-old GM Jonas Bjerre was the hero for the Kings as he took d...
GM Daniel Naroditsky outclassed the field in the first weekly Bullet Brawl and convincingly won the event ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Saturday. Naroditsky scored 242 points during the two-hour arena, playing out 67 wins, six...
On a blockbuster final day of the regular season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, GM Levon Aronian's Triveni Continental Kings and the GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-led UpGrad Mumba Masters stole the two finals spots on offer from the lo...
Chinese GM Wei Yi remains the MVP of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 after scoring a third win in four games. It took his team Traveni Continental Kings up to second place, but five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand's Ganges Gr...
While humankind has yet to answer the age-old question "Who let the dogs out," there's one thing we do know: You can now play chess against humans' adorable best friends. Meet IM Levy Rozman's dog Benji, Wishboy, Buddy Buckets, Pinky, and GM Levon...