It's always tough to stop GM Hikaru Nakamura, but it's becoming nigh impossible in Titled Tuesday. He swept both tournaments on May 14, the second time in just the past four weeks, giving him a total of 12 victories for the year when no one else h...
The 2024 Speed Chess Championship is fast approaching—and this year it will end with a live, in-person final staged in Paris. For the first time, Chess.com is taking the climax of its flagship fast time control event offline. The French ca...
Update June 10, 2024: GM Magnus Carlsen is no longer playing in the Bullet Chess Championship 2024, he is replaced by GM Fabiano Caruana. The Bullet Chess Championship has been reloaded, the safety is off, and it’s ready to fire! The yea...
Fast-fingers at the ready—the new 2024 Chess.com Community Championships series is launching later this month with the Hyperbullet Championship. The Community Championships is your chance to win a crown and cash on Chess.com and first up, ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won Division II of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024, earning $15,000, 50 tour points, and automatic entry into Division I of the next event. Although GM Wesley So won on demand to reach the match reset, the...
The hardest hitting event in chess is back: the mighty BlitzChamps, which pits NFL superstars against each other to find football’s top chess player. BlitzChamps III kicks off on May 22 with $100,000 at stake for charity, and that all-impo...
GM Alireza Firouzja eliminated GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Vincent Keymer to reach the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024 Division I Grand Final. On Wednesday, he will take on GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Wesley So lost his very first match in ...
GM Pranav V won the strong Masters section of the inaugural Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge, held May 4-12 in Dubai. The 17-year-old grandmaster from Chennai (born in Bangalore) edged out GM Aravindh Chithambaram on tiebreak, both with seven p...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Vincent Keymer in the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024 Division I Winners Final. In the Losers Quarterfinals, GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jan-Krzysztof Duda respectively eliminated GMs Denis Lazavik and Ian Ne...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen posted an incredible 10-game winning streak to overhaul GM Wei Yi and win the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland despite starting the day 2.5 points behind. Carlsen caught Wei by beating him in the fourth round ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's commanding Bullet Brawl run continued after the now-24-time winner picked up his third straight $400 first prize on Saturday. Facing a field of bullet chess titans including GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Nihal Sarin, and Daniel Narod...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer prevailed in the Division I Winners Semifinals of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024. Carlsen won with his uncanny ability to turn drawish positions into wins vs. GM Denis Lazavik. After losing to...
"I just sucked, honestly" said GM Magnus Carlsen about his play after losing his first game in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. He blundered a queen and lost the next game as well, but his 6/9 blitz scor...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer won their matches with a game to spare in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024. GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Denis Lazavik also won to continue in the Winners Bracket. Notably, Carlsen, ...
GM Wei Yi posted a five-game winning streak as he scored 13 of a possible 18 points to top the table after the rapid section of the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. World number-one Magnus Carlsen is just a point behind before the weekend's...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi said reigning world champion GM Ding Liren would be a "massive favorite" in the upcoming title match against GM Gukesh Dommaraju if he can recover his 2019 form, while GM Fabiano Caruana thinks one good result can make a huge...
GM Velimir Ivic had the performance of a lifetime on day two of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024. After surviving elimination from Division I thanks to a mouse slip by his opponent, he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in armageddo...
GM Magnus Carlsen came within a whisker of beating GM Gukesh Dommaraju and taking the sole lead in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but in the end, he had to settle for joint first place with GM Wei Yi, who won all three games on day tw...
GM Fabiano Caruana finished first in the Play-in stage of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024. It's a resounding comeback for the world number-two who had a disappointing final round in the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament but showed gr...
GM Kirill Shevchenko is the absolute underdog in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but he scored a perfect 6/6 on day one of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour after pouncing on blunders by GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and Vin...
GM Tuan Minh Le won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on May 7 with a score of 9.5/11, while the rest of Tuesday's highlights belonged to GM Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen first played a4/a5 on move one and Ra3/Ra6 on move two in all 11 games of the ea...
We're happy to announce the release of IM Jeremy Silman's classic The Amateur's Mind on Chessable. Replace the most common amateur strategic misconceptions with the decision-making process of the masters and start dominating your opponents! C...
If you're looking for some chess Entertainment, we have The Real Thing. Chess.com is excited to announce our newest bot, Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars! You can challenge the new bot by going to our Play Computer page. But beware—Thomas' bo...
GM Hikaru Nakamura secured his second straight Bullet Brawl and $400 after scoring 251 points ahead of GMs Jose Martinez and Daniel Naroditsky on Saturday. With this victory, Nakamura has taken his live Bullet Brawl earnings to just over $10,000 i...
