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...
The University of Missouri delivered a 14-2 drubbing to Athens in the second week of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season and debuted the competition's new strongest player, GM Aryan Tari. Scores of 4/4 for GMs Mikhail Antipov and Lu...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has turned a good week into a great one after winning his eighth Bullet Brawl by a 39-point margin and claiming the $400 first prize following a Titled Tuesday masterclass earlier in the week. GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Ch...
Adding a fourth win in Saturday's early round, the PBG Alaskan Knights maintained their firm lead in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's round-robin phase. The leaders defeated the Ganges Grandmasters, who went on to score their first, narrow ...
The PBG Alaskan Knights celebrated a dream start to the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season by winning their first three matches in the round-robin stage. Two were scheduled on Friday when the Knights defeated both the American Gambi...
All buckled up? Logic is taking you on a sci-fi adventure for the books–and your final destination is Paradise. Celebrate the release of Logic’s ninth studio album and graphic novel, Ultra 85, with not one–but five–unique...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka GothamChess) sent waves across the Twittersphere recently when he toppled GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in Titled Tuesday. However, to a crowd of chess enthusiasts at the University of Florida (UF), his recent presence on their campus...
Beating reigning champions Triveni Continental Kings with a dominating 15-3 score, the PBG Alaskan Knights started the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season impressively. The no-increment time control of 20 minutes for the whole game s...
GM Zenon Franco Ocampos, the first Paraguayan grandmaster and a legendary author and chess coach, has passed away at the age of 68. He died in a hospital in Vigo, Spain on Tuesday, October 1 after suffering a heart attack. Franco was born in the...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup, meaning he's won two out of the four Champions Chess Tour events this year. We also saw GM Wesley So win Division II and GM Fabiano Caruana Division III. Let's go over what we've lear...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Magnus Carlsen won the first Titled Tuesdays of October on the first of the month. Bortnyk scored 10/11 early to win outright, while Carlsen scored 9.5/11 late and won on tiebreaks over GM Grigoriy Oparin, whom he also ...
This October, five new (and familiar) faces have landed on Chess.com. Martin Krueger, Jack, Ghost Giri, Cramaline, and Beetlejuicer may seem like an unlikely group of friends—but they all have one thing in common: a cunning passion for chess...
Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju has broken into the world top-five for the first time on the October 2024 FIDE rating list after scoring double gold at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, while also growing the gap to his world championship oppon...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. After three hard-fought draws, the world number-one found a brilliant way to break through (40.e6!!) in the fou...
Mark Crowther, the founder of The Week in Chess (TWIC), single-handedly changed the chess landscape in the 90s and has provided an invaluable free resource for chess enthusiasts and professionals for 30 years. He has no plans of slowing down. Si...
We're a few days away from the second season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024, taking place October 3-11 in London. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Hou Yifan, and Vaishali Rameshbabu are among the players in wh...
GM Alireza Firouzja has advanced to play GM Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Levon Aronian showed tremendous form when he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5 but was met with an immovable Firo...
Chess.com is excited to announce the second edition of Team Chess Battle. Starting on October 7, the banter-fueled event will feature a $10,000 prize fund and some of the biggest celebrities in chess. The event continues with its entertaining fo...
At just 13 years of age, GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has become the youngest-ever player to record a rating of 2600, demolishing the previous record by close to a year. Upon returning to school in Turkiye, he received a hero's welcome. The Turkish pr...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a spirited challenge from GM Alireza Firouzja to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Bracket Finals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. He will now face the Losers Bracket winner in the tournament's Gran...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 10th edition of the Gashimov Memorial on Saturday in Susha, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster, who played in the tournament for the first time, finished ahead of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. ...
The underdogs roared as the 2024 Collegiate Chess League Fall (CCL) began on Saturday. The bottom boards led Saint Louis to victory over Athens. In an even bigger twist, Virginia defeated the top-seeded Missouri team. Boards three and four, GM D...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
GM Magnus Carlsen's dramatic match against GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's brilliant attacking masterpiece against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi were the highlights of day four of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. GM Alireza Firouzja...
