The Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid were inaugurated at a short evening ceremony in Kolkata, India. At its fourth edition, the iconic event with separate rapid and blitz sections and a total prize fund of $41,...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fifth match in a row at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals but lost his perfect score as GM Le Quang Liem went down only in the armageddon game of their tiebreak. The Vietnamese GM thus took one match point…
GM John Nunn won the gold medal in the 65+ section of the World Senior Chess Championships held in Assisi, Italy. Playing in the same group, GM Nona Gaprindashvili won the women's senior title for the eighth time. GM Zurab Sturua won the 50+ secti...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Sunday with a round of 16 clash between world championship challenger GM Ding Liren and SCC qualifier GM Alexander Grischuk. The match, which ultimately ended in a 14-12 victory for the Chinese supers...
In the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem, the surprise winner was the Chinese team, after winning both matches against Uzbekistan, the champions from the Chennai Chess Olympiad.
In the battle for the bronze medals, at the t...
China and Uzbekistan reached the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem. The two countries defeated Spain and India respectively, in the second match on Thursday, after both first matches had ended in a 2-2 tie. The final and the ...
Uzbekistan and China continue to perform exceptionally, knocking out Ukraine and Poland. Spain defeated the powerhouse Azerbaijan team. India pulled ahead of France in a riveting blitz playoff.
The semifinals begin on Thursday, November 24, star...
GM Fabiano Caruana was the first player to progress to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi in a nail-biting curtain-raiser for the main event.
Erigaisi built a strong lead early; ...
Chess.com is happy to announce that registrations are now open for the Spring 2023 season of the Collegiate Chess League! This season returns with the 4 vs. 4 team format most CCL players and fans are familiar with and a whopping $30,000...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...