The last four Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024 were held on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and featured four individual tournament winners... plus one additional big winner. GM Magnus Carlsen celebrated Christmas Eve this year by winning th...
India's incredibly successful year is also reflected in a comparison of the FIDE rating lists of January 2024 and January 2025. Top 100 GMs Aravindh Chithambaram (+64), Arjun Erigaisi (+63), and Gukesh Dommaraju (+52) had the biggest rating gains ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have agreed to share the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship title after Carlsen's suggestion seven games into their final. After sensationally U-turning on his decision to withdraw from the event, ...
Chess.com is excited to continue growing our great game in collaboration with NFL Films and NFL players. This new year comes with the debut of a special TV presentation and two new playable bots. Now, Chess.com is happy to announce an upco...
As part of our announced partnership with Freestyle Chess, we are offering a qualification path for each event to any of our members, with the first qualifier starting on January 4! Qualifiers are open to all players who meet the following crite...
The top eight players of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship and FIDE Women's World Blitz Chess Championship have qualified for their respective knockout tournaments on day two. The following eight players advance in the Open: Russian ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has made a sensational U-turn and confirmed that he will participate in the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship in New York. The seven-time World Blitz Champion has now received the green light to play with jeans. The announceme...
NBA superstar Victor "Wemby" Wembanyama turned a rainy day in New York City into an unforgettable experience when he invited fans to play chess with him in Washington Square Park on Saturday. The 7'3" (2.21 cm) San Antonio Spurs sensation,...
GM Volodar Murzin won the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with an undefeated 10/13 score. At 18 years old, he is the second-youngest rapid world champion in history, after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who was 17 during his victory in 2021. ...
GM Ediz Gurel captured first place and $400 in 2024's final Bullet Brawl, one week after falling short of his second title. Following their tussle at the top in the previous event, GM Oleksander Bortnyk fell three points shy of wresting the title ...
GM Magnus Carlsen will no longer participate in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship or the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after a dress-code disagreement with FIDE. He finishes the Rapid with a 5/8 score and will not defend his doubl...
GMs Volodar Murzin, Shant Sargsyan, Leinier Dominguez, and Daniel Naroditsky lead the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after five rounds. GM Denis Lazavik, on 3.5/5, defeated pre-tournament favorite GM Magnus Carlsen, on 2.5/5, in our Game...
GM Magnus Carlsen has just won the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals in Oslo, Norway. It's Carlsen's fifth Champions Chess Tour title, and he's the only player to win the event since it began in 2020. He's added another trophy to the collection as ...
2024 has been an eventful year for chess. We saw quite some movement in the FIDE's top 10 list, with a new generation of young talents cementing themselves among the chess elite. We all cheered on as legendary players put on some thrilling perform...
GM Savva Vetokhin scored an impressive victory in the 2024 Sunway Sitges Chess Festival after cruising through the tournament undefeated and winning 2-0 in the blitz playoff against 22-year-old GM Ido Gorshtein. The teenager's first victory i...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the third player to win 10 Bullet Brawl titles and the $400 first prize on Saturday after denying Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel, courtesy of a dramatic flagging against GM Christopher Yoo in his final game. Indon...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive Champions Chess Tour title. Again earning the $200,000 first prize, Carlsen has won every edition of the Champions Chess Tou...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have advanced to the title match of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-1.5, even after missing a checkmate-in-two he could have played in the final game. N...
We’re excited to announce another official partner for the Champions Chess Tour Finals, currently underway in Olso, Norway! Rubik’s Cube, the company behind the most iconic puzzle in the world, is once more teaming up with Chess.com to...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja made it to the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Semifinals by finishing as numbers one and two in the round-robin, while GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advanced through the Survival Stage....
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Round-Robin with 5/6, despite dropping one loss to Alireza Firouzja on Wednesday. Three players follow just one point behind: GMs Firouzja, Denis Lazavik, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. ...
Two of the world's best blitz players added Titled Tuesday winner to their list of 2024 accomplishments on December 17, with GM Parham Maghsoodloo winning the early tournament outright on 10 points, followed by GM Daniel Naroditsky scoring 9.5 poi...
Chess.com is pumped and excited to announce a premier partnership for our premier event: Take Take Take, a new app cofounded by GM Magnus Carlsen, has joined as an official partner for this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Finals. The CCT Finals ...
The 2025 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship (DCC) is now open for registration! Start the new year right and join thousands of your fellow players in one of the world's biggest chess events. Join the 2025 DCC What is the Daily Chess Champion...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Denis Lazavik lead the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals round-robin after three rounds on the opening day, with perfect scores. GM Wesley So came as close as you can get to defeating the world-number one without actually win...
