GM Hikaru Nakamura tops the field in the first Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz, set for July 3–5 at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, United States. The event will bring together some of the world's strongest speed chess...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen is making a surprise early return to classical chess, as he headlines TePe Sigeman Chess 2026 on May 1-7. In Malmo, Sweden, he'll be challenged by some of the world's brightest young stars. Carlsen and 2024 winner...
Day one of The American Cup 2026 saw GM Fabiano Caruana draw blood against GM Abhimanyu Mishra in game one, while the three other games ended in draws. Mishra will have to win game two on Wednesday to stay in the Championship Bracket. We saw even ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is in last place of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters and has slumped to world number-20 after losing to Indian countryman GM Aravindh Chithambaram in round six. GM Jorden van Foreest still leads by half a poin...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won Titled Tuesday on March 3 as the Spring Split, the third and final portion of the 2025-26 Titled Tuesday season, opened. Sindarov defeated GM Nihal Sarin in the final round and emerged as the victor on tiebreaks after co-l...
IM Levy Rozman became the world's biggest chess YouTuber by teaching millions of players how to win at chess. Two and a half years after a massively successful book debut, he's taking it one step further by targeting readers who can't yet walk, ta...
Tata Steel Chess Masters 2026 and the Challengers, which started in mid-January and ended at the start of February, were responsible for most of the rating changes among the world's top players. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov followed up his 19-point ga...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won another rollercoaster game against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to join GM David Navara in second place in the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters after five rounds. Navara won a beautiful game against GM Nodirbek Ya...
GM Mikhail Antipov won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 7.5/9 to earn the $25,000 first prize. He and GM Fabiano Caruana were neck and neck going into the last round, and both had the black pieces. Antipov managed to win his last game against GM ...
GM Jorden van Foreest is now the sole leader of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters on 3/4 after beating GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, with the Dutch star overtaking World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju on the live rating list. Gukesh was frustrated by fin...
GM Andrew Tang secured his 15th career Bullet Brawl title on Saturday after laying down one of the best recent performances. Having stopped challenges by GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin, Tang stormed home to a 15th career victory. With 50 win...
GM Jorden van Foreest has now beaten both the top seed and the world champion in Prague after sacrificing a rook to defeat GM Gukesh Dommaraju in round three of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters. Van Foreest moved into a four-way tie for firs...
Argentinian prodigy IM Faustino Oro continues to break barriers. In recent weeks, he climbed to fifth on the Chess.com blitz leaderboard. On Saturday, the youngster begins his hunt for his final grandmaster norm, which could make him the youngest ...
IM Reza Mahdavi followed up his win in the final 3 0 Thursday the previous week by winning the opening 3 0 Thursday on February 26. Not to be outdone, IM Renato Terry won the second tournament of the day with his record seventh title overall. GM A...
IM Renato Terry won Freestyle Friday on February 27, the second week of the Freestyle Friday Championship, with a 9.5/11 score. Last week's winner GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished second on 8.5/11, giving him a commanding early lead on the Championsh...
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A little more than three years ago, in December of 2022, Chess.com reached 100 million members. It was a huge milestone at the time, and it still is, but now we are celebrating an even bigger number: a quarter of a billion. It's the 250,000,000 ch...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Lorenzo Lodici, and Vasif Durarbayli lead the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 3.5 points apiece after four rounds. It's nearly the halfway point of the nine-round tournament, and there are no fewer than nine players in the chasi...
Defending Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram looked to be in trouble again in round two of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters, but GM Hans Niemann couldn't find a hidden winning resource on low time and slumped to defeat. It was a similar story...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat Defending Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram in round one of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters to oust GM Vincent Keymer as world number-four. Keymer fell to GM Jorden van Foreest for a second event in a row, whil...
The lineup for Norway Chess 2026 has been finalized, setting the stage for another clash between world number-one Magnus Carlsen and reigning World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. The 14th edition of the prestigious tournament will take place p...
We're excited to announce that the Chess.com Global Championship is now called the Chess.com Open! The event, which starts on March 14, is set to be the world's largest open tournament. With $250,000 in prizes and up to three direct spots to the n...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the February 24 edition of Titled Tuesday to wrap up the winter split with his second win of the month, becoming one of eight qualifiers into the Chess.com Open. Vachier-Lagrave won in the final round to reach 9.5 poi...
Netflix officially announced on Tuesday that its highly anticipated documentary on the 2022 scandal, involving GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, will premiere on the platform on April 7, 2026. Untold: Chess Mates revisits one of the most explos...
