Top-seed GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu got off to a winning start on his debut in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he won the opening Masters Chess960, edging out GM Haik Martirosyan, who he beat in their head-to-head clash. Martirosyan then went on...
World Chess faced criticism following the announcement of 'Clash of Claims 2,' a sequel to the controversial match between GMs Vladimir Kramnik and Jose Martinez. The company's CEO Ilya Merenzon, who expressed surprise at the reaction, has agreed ...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia with five rounds to spare. Scoring a total of 27 points across the five days, he matched GM Magnus Carlsen's record from 2019 of most points earned in a Grand Chess Tour rapid a...
IM Stephane Bressac won the first edition of the Blindfold Chess Challenge, a tournament with a unique format held July 9-11 in Valencia, Spain, where visually-impaired players faced off with non-impaired players. The 34-year-old Bressac was the o...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has moved one step closer to seizing the top spot on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after winning the latest edition ahead of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Hikaru Nakamura, and 132 other titled players. Now sitting on 21 v...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, now by 4.5 points after the first day of blitz. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored the most points on Saturday and is Caruana's closest rival, along with GM Wesley ...
Abdalrahman Sameh Mohamed played his first tournament in January, won the African Youth Championship in June, and on Thursday took it one step further to sensationally win the Egyptian Chess Championship. He's just ten years old. Abdalrahman, wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana has climbed to world number-two on the rapid live rating list after beating GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Anish Giri, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to end the rapid section of the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia on a towering 15...
The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships concluded on July 11 in Krakow, Poland with the U.S. finishing at the top of the 50+ section and England claiming the 65+ tournament. In total, 65 teams and 307 players, including 32 grandmasters, par...
GM Fabiano Caruana beat GMs Levon Aronian and Ivan Saric and escaped against GM Wesley So to climb into sole first place after day two of the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia. The previous leader, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, blundere...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2024 CrunchLabs Masters, the next leg of The Champions Chess Tour (CCT). Running from July 17 to July 24, this highly anticipated event, in partnership with CrunchLabs, will feature the world's top chess player...
Sigrun Øen (1963-2024), a chemical engineer and the mother of 16th World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, passed away in Oslo on Tuesday at the age of just 61. She died peacefully with her family around her after suffering a long illness. S...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came into the 2024 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz after drawing all nine games in Bucharest, but in Zagreb, Croatia he began by winning a wild game against the player who was replacing GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Levon A...
Chess.com is excited to announce the winners of the 2023 Create Your Own Course contest, authors IceBreaker and Benedictine! Their courses, Killer Kings: The King as a Fighting Piece in Chess and Advanced Chess Patterns, are now available on Chess...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura won the July 9 editions of Titled Tuesday. It's the fourth time the world's two best blitz chess players have each won one of the Tuesday events, but only the first time this year, last occurring on December ...
IM Aksel Bu Kvaloy is Norway's new national champion, copying the feat of GMs Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen by winning the title at age 15. The Norwegian Championship took place from June 28 to July 5 in the mountain resort of Gol, drawing ...
13-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus has added the Under 16 ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 title to the Under 13 title he won a week ago. The Turkish prodigy overcame fellow GM-elect Ivan Zemlyanskii 3-1 in the Final after Zemlyanskii had upset G...
FM Faustino Oro, dubbed the 'Messi of Chess,' has created a media frenzy in his native Argentina by setting a prestigious new world record. This week he followed up by beating none other than GM Hikaru Nakamura twice. Oro achieved his final norm...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus won the Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 a week ago and has now booked his place in the knockout Finals of the Under 16 Championship. Once again he won his group with 8/10, as did GM Abhimanyu Mishra, while GMs-ele...
The latest edition of Bullet Brawl, which was one of the strongest in the event's history, was won by GM Daniel Naroditsky, who outscored GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, and 125 other titled pla...
GM Fabiano Caruana ended up winning the $68,750 first prize at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania after a dramatic final day in Bucharest. Although he lost his classical game to a strong-playing GM Anish Giri, the American GM won all three games i...
TwitchCon, TwitchCon, TwitchCon. I just celebrated my first time at the convention as part of the Chess.com team. Sure, I expected things to be a little bit wild. But what I walked into was a vibrant ball of purple-drenched chaos, inflatable pawns...
Fifteen-time Bangladesh Chess Champion GM Ziaur Rahman has passed away today after suffering a stroke during his 12th-round game at the national chess championship, the Bangladesh Chess Federation has confirmed. The 50-year-old had a close-to-wi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is proud to announce Hikaru's Kickathalon of Chess - Sponsored by Kick.com. On Thursday, July 11 at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST, both titled and amateur players alike will have a chance to compete for a share of the $13,150 prize fund...
A fourth day full of draws means that GM Fabiano Caruana, who played GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu today, goes into the final round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania with a half-point lead. The longest game of the round, between GM Nodirbe...
