"I'm really looking forward to the world championship match in Singapore," said GM Gukesh Dommaraju in a virtual press conference held on Tuesday, with journalists from different media able to ask questions in a Zoom call. Below we provide the que...
Five leaders were whittled down to one in the fourth round of the 2024 U.S. Championship as GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Abhimanyu Mishra and moved to 3/4. GM Ray Robson scored the only other decisive result of the round, thwarting a dubious paw...
Five Indian grandmasters are through to the Quarterfinals of the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup, which will feature the all-Indian clashes GM Arjun Erigaisi vs. GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Viswanathan Anand vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. GM Raunak Sadh...
We're excited to announce that GM Garry Kasparov has teamed up with Chessable to upgrade a timeless classic. In addition to the written content, chess players can now enjoy My Great Predecessors Part 4 in video, presented by the legendary Kasparov...
22-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko has been expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship with his draw against GM Bassem Amin in round one and win over GM Francisco Vallejo in round two turned into losses. When Shevchenko’s regular absence...
The 2024 U.S. Championship field has been blown wide open after GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hans Niemann, and Awonder Liang won their respective games against GMs Ray Robson, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian and have joined leading GMs Wesley So and ...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Sevian notched wins with White in round two of the 2024 U.S. Championship and have taken an early half-point lead over the pack. So won a pawn against GM Christopher Yoo and never let it go, while Sevian played creatively to ...
SRM and Athens prevailed in week three of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season. SRM took the sole lead as the only remaining perfect score after defeating Saint Louis. The Indian team turned in a well-rounded result to edge ahea...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has cracked the Bullet Brawl code. He outpaced GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim his second straight title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Amassing 69 wins, seven draws, and six losses in a performance that mirrored his...
GM Alireza Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings have retained their Tech Mahindra Global Chess League title after defeating GM Anish Giri's PBG Alaskan Knights 2-0 in the final. Firouzja thanked "key player" GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, the only player...
Draws on all boards in round one of the 2024 U.S. Championship have already dashed the chances of a player repeating GM Bobby Fischer's perfect score in the 1964 championship, but there are clear signs that the U.S. Championship title and $55,000 ...
Not GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine Sg Pipers but GM Alireza Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings secured the second spot in Saturday's Final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. The Kings will be playing for glory against the PBG Alaskan Knights,...
After they led for most of the event, it was unsurprising to see the PBG Alaskan Knights become the first team to secure a spot in Saturday's final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. The Knights defeated the Triveni Continental Kings, who n...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") defeated IM Kostya Kavutskiy and IM David Pruess ("ChessDojo") 2-0 in the third quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They slew the King's Indian Defense with a slow squee...
It's the spookiest month of the year, and with it comes the scariest event of the Chess.com Community Championships. Mark your calendars, for the Chess.com Fog of War Chess Championship is coming! The event happens on October 17 and 18 and will tr...
Chess.com has announced an agreement with the founders of Silver Knights Chess, Adam and Daniel Weissbarth, to transition Magnus Chess Academy to them. The deal will see one of the leading scholastic chess coaching providers in the U.S. rebrande...
Team "Oh Yes My Queen," IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou, won their 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 quarterfinal match 2-0 against Team 'Dandinavian,' IM Danny Rensch and IM John Bartholomew. Although Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer blamed the outcome on ...
A week into the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League, only three teams still have a chance to reach one of the two much-coveted spots in Saturday's final. On Wednesday, the PBG Alaskan Knights lost their second match but are still three points ahead ...
GMs Kirill Shevchenko and Frederik Svane are your winners for the October 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. While Shevchenko led wire-to-wire and won outright with 10 points, victory did not come easily for Svane, who came out of a four-way, 9.5-point...
48-year-old CM Demis Hassabis, a former child chess prodigy and the founder of DeepMind, the company that revolutionized computer chess, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize For Chemistry. He shared half the 11m Swedish kronor ($1.06m) prize with Professo...
GM Anish Giri scored his first win on Tuesday to lead the PBG Alaskan Knights to their sixth win in seven matches as the team is on the brink of securing a spot in Saturday's final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. It was a strange day tha...
The mother-daughter duo of GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling reigned supreme in the first quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They controlled the match against Team ChessKid—IM Alice Lee and FM Mike Klein—for the mo...
The Alpine Sg Pipers were the first team to beat the PBG Alaskan Knights on Monday at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League in London. The Pipers are now just three points behind the leaders, along with the Triveni Continental Kings. Scoring their...
The PBG Alaskan Knights won their fifth match on Sunday to lead the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League with a six-point margin halfway through the round-robin stage. The Triveni Continental Kings and the Alpine Sg Pipers are sharing second place wi...
