GMs Jose Martinez and Jeffery Xiong were the victors in the August 13 editions of Titled Tuesday, Martinez finally breaking into the TT winners column in 2024 after coming close several times. "Ready for London," an apparent reference to his ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave led the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after day one, but GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi caught up to him to join a three-way tie after six rounds. Of the other seven players, GM Fabiano Caruana was the o...
FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing several top female players, some of them children, by sending them obscene letters for over a d...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju was gifted a car on Saturday at a spectacular celebration held by his school, Velammal Vidyalaya, on their Mel Ayanambakkam campus in Chennai. The world championship challenger turned 18 this year, which means he'll be able to ...
Sehba Shah overcame a severe physical handicap to become Pakistan Women's Champion. The 59-year-old will now lead the national team competing in the biggest chess event on the calendar. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which takes place in Hungary'...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader of the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of rapid games. After escaping vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura and turning the tide vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the French grandmaster defeated...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
Are you ready for piece placement pandemonium? Chess.com is excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship! Starting on August 19, anyone can battle for a piece of this month's...
We're excited to announce that registrations for the Fall 2024 season of the Collegiate Chess League are now open! The event features once more the beloved four vs. four team format, a hefty $25,000 prize fund, and presenting partner Susquehanna, ...
Famed commentator and GM Daniel Naroditsky added a 22nd Bullet Brawl title to his resume on Saturday after outscoring Turkish prodigies GM Ediz Gurel and IM Yaqiz Erdogmus, whose combined age of 28 is the same as the winner's. A 23-game unbea...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is the last player to make it to the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Finals. On Friday, he defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Quarterfinals with a 14.5-9.5 score. Nepomniachtchi got off to a three-point lead in the first segmen...
A lower-rated amateur has been kicked out of an open tournament in the Netherlands after being caught with a cell phone hidden in his sock after previously raising eyebrows by defeating much higher-rated masters. The 26th edition of the Hogescho...
GM Magnus Carlsen qualified for the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Semifinals, live in Paris on September 6, after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi with a 12-9 score. He will play GM Hans Niemann in the next match, the first time they will meet for a ga...
GM Hans Niemann can buy his ticket to Paris, as he's made it to the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Semifinals which will be live in France. He won his quarterfinal match against GM Wesley So 13-10. Notably, he gave a 30-minute interview after the m...
A chess player has been suspended by the Russian Chess Federation and is reportedly facing time in jail after she allegedly tried to poison her rival at the chessboard during a tournament. Amina Abakarova, a 40-year-old chess coach from Makhachk...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a perfect 11/11 in the late Titled Tuesday on August 6, the first flawless Titled Tuesday of the year and overshadowing GM Hikaru Nakamura's earlier win out of a four-way tie on 9.5 points. It was Carlsen's second 11/...
GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the first quarterfinal match of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 with an overwhelming score of 14.5-8.5. He is the first player to qualify for the Semifinals that will be held live in Paris. Th...
British tennis star Henry Patten, fresh off his Wimbledon doubles victory, opened up about his passion for chess in an exclusive interview with Chess.com and revealed the game has sharpened his mind and benefited his tennis career. Patten is a B...
GM Magnus Carlsen-led WR Chess Team beat GM Arjun Erigaisi's Team MGD1 in the Final to win the 2024 World Blitz Team Championship. WR Chess won all seven matches in the group stages and cruised into the Quarterfinals. There they defeated GMHans.co...
15-year-old IM Shreyas Royal, who faced eviction from the United Kingdom eight years ago due to his father's expiring work visa, has now achieved his dream of becoming the youngest British chess grandmaster in history. Royal is set to beco...
GM Daniil Dubov's only win of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships saw his team Al-Ain ACMG UAE take gold in a nail-biting finish. World Champion Ding Liren's Decade China Team took silver, with Pang Bo scoring 11/11 on board six, w...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his 26th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize after scoring 268 points and staving off a challenge from GM Daniel Naroditsky (253) on Friday. Rounding out the podium and claiming the $150 third prize was GM Andrew Tan...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen bounced back to beat GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren on day two of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, but his team WR Chess trails Al-Ain ACMG UAE by three points. GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the sta...
GM Luca Moroni Jr. has been crowned as Chess.com's top wizard after toppling IM Nhat Minh To in the Grand Final Reset of the 2024 Spell Chess Championship. Moroni, who was the only GM to qualify for the knockout, won $600 for his first-place finis...
