GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the Speed Chess Championship 2024, defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in front of a live audience in Paris. It was a dominant performance with a final score of 23.5-7.5; he lost just five games in four hours, d...
GM Andrew Tang achieved his third Bullet Brawl victory of the year on Saturday. He started and ended the tournament with winning streaks, ultimately scoring 68 wins and 241 points. With a 24-game winning run, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was close...
GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third in the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating GM Hans Niemann in the consolation match 21-9. He won all three segments, making his greatest gains in the 3+1 and 1+1 segments. Nakamura earns $13,500 for winn...
For the first time ever, GM Hikaru Nakamura will not be playing in the Speed Chess Championship Final. GM Alireza Firouzja is the first player not named Magnus Carlsen to defeat him since the tournament's inception, and the French number-one won i...
Eight years after a freak accident left him paralyzed, Noland Arbaugh is not only playing chess with the help of a chip in his brain but he's also invited by Chess.com to attend the Speed Chess Championship Finals in Paris and meet the world's che...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is moving from its traditional 21-round Swiss format in the 2024 World Blitz Championship in New York, introducing a combined Swiss-and-knockout format. Just a week after FIDE announced a change of sched...
French WGM Andreaa Navrotescu achieved a feat that not even GM Magnus Carlsen could achieve before her. She won an event with a perfect 9/9 score. Chess.com regularly covers impressive performances from the chess world, but there are times when ...
Four-time Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun won the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Polina Shuvalova in the Final. The match score was 12.5-9.5, and Ju won every one of the three segments by a point. The Chine...
IM Polina Shuvalova and four-time World Champion Ju Wenjun are the two finalists of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova defeated GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 11.5-9.5 in a close match, while Ju nearly doubled GM Kateryna Lag...
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The first Titled Tuesdays of September went to two regulars, GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, who both scored 10 points. It was Sarana's fourth win of the year and Deac's second. Sarana needed tiebreaks over GM Ian Nepomniachtch...
GM Andreas Dueckstein, an Austrian grandmaster known as a dangerous attacker who defeated world champions Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik and Boris Spassky, died peacefully on August 28 at the age of 97. The news was confirmed by the Austrian chess fe...
IM Brewington Hardaway edged one giant step closer to becoming a grandmaster as he earned his final norm in Barcelona last week. The 15-year-old now only has one hurdle left to cross before he would make history as the second African American with...
The 2024 India College Chess Championship (ICCL) began on August 22, 2024, with record-breaking registrations of 245 teams featuring more than 1200 players. The SRM Institute of Science and Technology, led by GM Pranesh M, convincingly dominated t...
The upcoming 2024 FIDE World Championship between defending champion GM Ding Liren and the youngest challenger in history, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, will have a few differences from previous editions. FIDE has announced the official regulations, i...
Reigning World Champion Ju Wenjun and three-time Women's World Blitz Champion Kateryna Lagno will face each other in the Semifinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Ju defeated IM Alice Lee 9.5-5.5, while Lagno eliminated ...
Just in time for the SCC Finals in Paris on September 6-8, Displate and Chess.com have partnered again to bring a brand-new collection of special magnet-mounted metal posters to chess fans. From now through September 30, fans can liven up their wa...
From accused to accomplished: GM Hans Niemann has stormed into the top-20 chess players in the world. On the September 2024 FIDE rating list, the 21-year-old American player has left seasoned grandmasters such as Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagr...
IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu prevailed vs. their women's world champion opponents in the Quarterfinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Shuvalova knocked out women's world number-one, GM...
Chess.com is excited to announce new partnerships with LG and Fubo for its ChessTV FAST channel. Now, chess fans in Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands can watch chess content on their smart television rig...
Wouldn't it be better if there were not separate chess titles for women? GM Judit Polgar, the strongest female player of all time, made this thought-provoking suggestion a few days ago in the latest New in Chess podcast, reigniting an old debate. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after scoring 251 points and outpacing his longtime rival, GM Daniel Naroditsky, on Saturday. Naroditsky was the only master in the 128-player field able to challenge...
IM Mai Narva almost pulled off the sensation of knocking GM Alexandra Kosteniuk out of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship, but there was heartbreak as she blundered a piece just as she was about to clinch victory in the armagedd...
A new study by one of the world's leading statisticians has found that GM Hikaru Nakamura's impressive streaks against high-level opponents on Chess.com are well within the expected probabilities. GM Vladimir Kramnik strongly criticizes the report...
GM Alireza Firouzja was crowned as the winner of the 2024 Sinquefield Cup and the Grand Chess Tour on Wednesday after securing a draw with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and finishing on 6/9. Following his round-one defeat to the winner, GM Fab...
