IM Aksel Bu Kvaloy is Norway's new national champion, copying the feat of GMs Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen by winning the title at age 15. The Norwegian Championship took place from June 28 to July 5 in the mountain resort of Gol, drawing ...
13-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus has added the Under 16 ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 title to the Under 13 title he won a week ago. The Turkish prodigy overcame fellow GM-elect Ivan Zemlyanskii 3-1 in the Final after Zemlyanskii had upset G...
FM Faustino Oro, dubbed the 'Messi of Chess,' has created a media frenzy in his native Argentina by setting a prestigious new world record. This week he followed up by beating none other than GM Hikaru Nakamura twice. Oro achieved his final norm...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus won the Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 a week ago and has now booked his place in the knockout Finals of the Under 16 Championship. Once again he won his group with 8/10, as did GM Abhimanyu Mishra, while GMs-ele...
The latest edition of Bullet Brawl, which was one of the strongest in the event's history, was won by GM Daniel Naroditsky, who outscored GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, and 125 other titled pla...
GM Fabiano Caruana ended up winning the $68,750 first prize at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania after a dramatic final day in Bucharest. Although he lost his classical game to a strong-playing GM Anish Giri, the American GM won all three games i...
TwitchCon, TwitchCon, TwitchCon. I just celebrated my first time at the convention as part of the Chess.com team. Sure, I expected things to be a little bit wild. But what I walked into was a vibrant ball of purple-drenched chaos, inflatable pawns...
Fifteen-time Bangladesh Chess Champion GM Ziaur Rahman has passed away today after suffering a stroke during his 12th-round game at the national chess championship, the Bangladesh Chess Federation has confirmed. The 50-year-old had a close-to-wi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is proud to announce Hikaru's Kickathalon of Chess - Sponsored by Kick.com. On Thursday, July 11 at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST, both titled and amateur players alike will have a chance to compete for a share of the $13,150 prize fund...
A fourth day full of draws means that GM Fabiano Caruana, who played GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu today, goes into the final round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania with a half-point lead. The longest game of the round, between GM Nodirbe...
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It was in serious mutual time trouble, but GM Fabiano Caruana did miss a chance to get at least very close to winning his third game at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania today, against GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The other American GM Wesley So had GM N...
The Chess.com team has been popping up all over the world recently and members of the team spent last Friday and Saturday promoting chess to mixed martial arts (MMA) fans in a crossover at UFC X. Hosted at the 200,000 square foot Las Vegas Conve...
Titled Tuesday belonged to GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Hikaru Nakamura on July 2, although both needed tiebreaks after scoring 9.5 points. GM Arjun Erigaisi pulled off the impressive but unenviable feat of finishing in second place in both events, wh...
British chess sensation WFM Bodhana Sivanandan continues to make chess history. Now the nine-year-old prodigy is set to become the youngest player ever to represent England in an international sporting competition. Sivanandan is one of five play...
A powerful victory against GM Wesley So brought GM Alireza Firouzja into joined second place at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania, which resumed on Tuesday following a rest day. After the sixth round, GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead by half ...
Meet nine-year-old Ethan Pang from London, U.K. The chess prodigy has just fulfilled a dream after a series of incredible results that earned him the title of candidate master and the record as the youngest player ever to cross the 2200-barrier. ...
The Collegiate Chess League is excited to announce our third annual summer season, proudly presented by Susquehanna, one of the world’s leading quantitative trading firms. The 2024 summer season will bring back both the bullet and Bughouse...
The talented youngsters dominated the first Kids vs. Stars match, but the experienced masters are not backing down and have brought in reinforcements. Can the stars turn the tide and outsmart their significantly younger opponents? Kids vs. Stars...
The $2.5 million 2024 FIDE World Championship between reigning World Champion Ding Liren and his challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Singapore between November 20 and December 15. FIDE announced on Monday that the southeast Asian cit...
Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand has won his 10th Leon Masters title after defeating GM Jaime Santos 3-1 in the final match. The 54-year-old Anand took over to win the last two games after a shaky start and has now won the event in northwest ...
Another round with five draws at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania saw several missed chances. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was completely winning for one move but failed to spot the required queen sortie against GM Wesley So. Another hard-to-fin...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus defeated FM Henry Tudor in the Final of the ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 for players under 13. While the Turkish prodigy was the clear favorite to win this event, Tudor managed to finish the regular games with a tied 2-...
10-year-old FM Faustino Oro, dubbed the 'Messi of Chess,' has become the youngest-ever international master and once again earned a place in chess history, securing the final norm today in Barcelona, Spain. The Argentinian prodigy is one of only t...
After progressing to the ChessKid Youth Championships Knockout earlier in the day, 13-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus has commanded another headline with a historic Bullet Brawl victory on Saturday. Scoring 220 points, he finished well ahead of s...
