A degenerative condition has taken away most of his eyesight, but that didn't stop IM Daniel Pulvett from scoring his third GM norm at the Valencia Open on Sunday. With an Elo rating already over 2500, gaining his GM title should be only a technic...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Benjamin Bok were the winners of the seventh and eighth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. GMs Raunak Sadhwani and Rauf Mamedov each won second place respectively, joining the winners in advancing to the knock...
A seven-year-old boy's finger was broken by an automated chess-playing robot during the Moscow Open in a video posted on July 21st. The original video, featured on the Baza channel on Telegram, has circulated on several social media platforms and ...
The Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase entered its 22nd week on Sunday and was won by a rampant GM Hikaru Nakamura who toppled GM Fabiano Caruana after winning all of his games en route to his seventh knockout victory.
A generational...
GMs David Paravyan and Nikolas Theodorou were the winners of the seventh and eighth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship.
Paravyan and Theodorou advance to the main event along with GMs Gata Kamsky and Jose Martinez, victors...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday. After the rapid segment, the world champion was in second place behind Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but scoring 11.5/18 in the blitz was enough to finish in sol...
An online "round-table" discussion organized by the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) on Thursday saw three FIDE presidential candidates, the incumbent president Arkady Dvorkovich, GM Andrii Baryshpolets, and GM Bachar Kouatly, debating ove...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament.
GM Fabiano Caruana won the week 22 Swiss of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase.
Participating in the event were 53 competitors&mdas...
IM Vaishali R overcame GM Harika Dronavalli in their quarterfinal match in the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. Vaishali dueled fiercely against her compatriot, the highest-rated active woman player in India. After...
It wasn't a bolt from the blue, but GM Magnus Carlsen's decision not to defend his world title still came as shock to many. A day after the news came out, Chess.com gives an overview of reactions from the chess world.
GM Vishy Anand, FIDE…