GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
For the last couple of years the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) has been a battle between two giants, the defending champions, Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou). However, in week five, the University of ...
We're excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Crazyhouse Chess Championship starts on November 6 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Featuring a variant where initiative is everything, get ready for...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with four points out of a possible six on day one. After losing game one against GM Magnus Carlsen, he had the best day, scoring three wins and two draws in his remain...
This month only, Chess.com and Jagex have teamed up to bring you five limited-edition bots, a lineup of the most famous (and infamous) characters in all of Gielinor! As Old School RuneScape fans anxiously await the Sailing update coming on Novembe...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro, the youngest participant in the 2025 FIDE World Cup, is among the 20 players who advance to round two after tiebreaks after defeating GM Ante Brkic 5-3. The matchups only get harder from here, as the top 50 se...
GM Victor Mikhalevski of Israel won the 50+ section at the FIDE World Senior Championships in Gallipoli, Italy, on Saturday. IM Alexander Reprintsev of Ukraine edged out five other players on tiebreaks to win the 65+ group. In the Women's sections...
GothamChess vs. The World has blown past previously-established records and continues to set new ones, with now more than 200,000 players having joined in. That total is nearly 40% more than the previous record, which was set during Magnus vs. the...
Out of 78 matches in round one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, 20 will go to rapid and blitz tiebreaks on Monday. The upset of the day was IM Shixu Wang's (2402) match win against GM Leon Mendonca (2620). There were just two other cases…
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to a 14th career victory ahead of the 48-time winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura.
Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour ar...