GM Arjun Erigaisi is the only player on 5/5 in the Open section of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad after his win over GM Rauf Mamedov helped India defeat Azerbaijan 3-1 in round five. Three more teams scored narrow wins to join India on maximum point...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won his 23rd Bullet Brawl title by a 35-point margin over his closest rival, GM Hikaru Nakamura. Finishing with a 16-game winning streak, Naroditsky ended with 271 points to clinch the $400 first prize. Nakamura finished secon...
55-year-old GM Vasyl Ivanchuk beat GM Wesley So as Ukraine pulled off a sensational win against 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad top-seed United States in round four. It came 15 years after an emotional Ivanchuk announced and then backtracked on retiremen...
GM Magnus Carlsen's first visit to the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad won't be forgotten in a hurry after he turned up late, on a bike, thinking he'd lost by default, but was smuggled in just in time to go on to win by checkmate. GM Fabiano Caruana move...
GM Fabiano Caruana is back above 2800 after beginning the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a sparkling win over Singaporean GM Jingyao Tin. There were also winning debuts for GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Richard Rapport, while World Champion Ding Liren w...
The controversial Carlsen vs. Niemann scandal is confirmed to appear on Netflix in 2025, the streaming giant has announced. The news is setting the stage for what could be an explosive documentary on the drama and aftermath of the episode that sho...
Google will be the title sponsor for the 2024 FIDE World Championship Match between GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju. Described as a "landmark collaboration," the news was announced today by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Sin...
GM Levon Aronian blundered a piece against 607-point-lower-rated FM Andre Mendez, but still went on to win as top-seed United States claimed a 3.5-0.5 victory over Panama—GM Wesley So's solid draw cost him a place in the top 10. None of the ...
We're excited to announce that you can now keep up with players' rating changes in real time right on our Events page! You can also quickly see players' performance ratings for that event. Learn more about these new features and how to turn them o...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on September 10 with a 9/9 start and 10/11 overall score after defeating both GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, who finished second and third in the strongest Titled Tuesday podiu...
The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad has been opened in Budapest, with the games starting Wednesday. As almost 2,000 chess players, from world number-one Magnus Carlsen to over 200 unrated participants, converge on the Hungarian capital, can India, top se...
We all know rubber ducks. They make your bath time more whimsical and magical. But on the chessboard, they bring nothing but chaos and madness. So you better be ready because the next event of the Chess.com Community Championship, the Chess.com Du...
Nine-year-old CM Ethan Pang, the youngest-ever 2200 player, defeated three grandmasters in a recent classical tournament in Hungary and came close to breaking the 2300 rating barrier for the first time. Pang, who made headlines in July when he b...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won his fourth Speed Chess Championship title, defeating GMs Alireza Firouzja and Hans Niemann along the way. Firouzja was the runner-up after he stopped GM Hikaru Nakamura from reaching the Title Match for...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the Speed Chess Championship 2024, defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in front of a live audience in Paris. It was a dominant performance with a final score of 23.5-7.5; he lost just five games in four hours, d...
GM Andrew Tang achieved his third Bullet Brawl victory of the year on Saturday. He started and ended the tournament with winning streaks, ultimately scoring 68 wins and 241 points. With a 24-game winning run, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was close...
GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third in the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating GM Hans Niemann in the consolation match 21-9. He won all three segments, making his greatest gains in the 3+1 and 1+1 segments. Nakamura earns $13,500 for winn...
For the first time ever, GM Hikaru Nakamura will not be playing in the Speed Chess Championship Final. GM Alireza Firouzja is the first player not named Magnus Carlsen to defeat him since the tournament's inception, and the French number-one won i...
Eight years after a freak accident left him paralyzed, Noland Arbaugh is not only playing chess with the help of a chip in his brain but he's also invited by Chess.com to attend the Speed Chess Championship Finals in Paris and meet the world's che...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is moving from its traditional 21-round Swiss format in the 2024 World Blitz Championship in New York, introducing a combined Swiss-and-knockout format. Just a week after FIDE announced a change of sched...
French WGM Andreaa Navrotescu achieved a feat that not even GM Magnus Carlsen could achieve before her. She won an event with a perfect 9/9 score. Chess.com regularly covers impressive performances from the chess world, but there are times when ...
Four-time Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun won the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Polina Shuvalova in the Final. The match score was 12.5-9.5, and Ju won every one of the three segments by a point. The Chine...
IM Polina Shuvalova and four-time World Champion Ju Wenjun are the two finalists of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova defeated GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 11.5-9.5 in a close match, while Ju nearly doubled GM Kateryna Lag...
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The first Titled Tuesdays of September went to two regulars, GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, who both scored 10 points. It was Sarana's fourth win of the year and Deac's second. Sarana needed tiebreaks over GM Ian Nepomniachtch...
