The Collegiate Chess League is officially over halfway through its fourth season. With only three rounds remaining, teams are already fighting for playoff spots, and every match from now on is even more important for the teams' standings leading u...
With two draws in yesterday's games, GM Richard Rapport qualified to the final by ousting GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Anish Giri booked another day of games, in a rapid chess format, to decide who would face Rapport...
On Thursday, February 24, 2022, 19-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko and his family woke up from the sounds of numerous explosions not far from them. They took their documents and went to the basement, where they stayed all day and tried to follow the...
The second round of the losers bracket of the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean ended in four decisive winners: GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Arjun Erigaisi, Brandon Jacobson, and Jose Martinez. Notably, t...
Wednesday's games of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade saw GM Richard Rapport win with the white pieces against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, whereas the game between GM Anish Giri and GM Dmitry Andreikin ended in a draw after wild complicati...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the sixth week of Arena Kings on Wednesday, just moments before beginning a quarterfinal match in the Bullet Chess Championship. He defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the Arena Kings final.
This week's semifinalists we...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean resumed today with a blockbuster lineup of matches that featured the world's number one bullet chess player GM Hikaru Nakamura as well as a masterclass from "The Prophet," GM&n...
From the pool phase of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade, GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Anish Giri, Richard Rapport, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave qualified to the semifinals, with Andreikin and Giri meeting in one match while Rapport and Vachier Lag...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on March 8, scoring 9.5/11 after defeating GM Daniil Dubov in the final round and winning on tiebreaks. Dubov went on to win the late edition and was the only player to reach the top…
Chess.com is thrilled to announce that the 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship has been confirmed and is set to start on May 24. The event was born from a partnership between Chess.com and FIDE and is the most important online tournament for tit...