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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The exciting Vishy vs. the World vote chess match against GM Viswanathan Anand is fast approaching, beginning on Monday, September 30. Chess.com has recruited a star squad of four coaching advisors to provide analysis and recommend moves (reflecti...
The fourth and last online event of the Champions Chess Tour is underway, and soon, the full field of eight players will be all set for the finals. While we don't yet know who'll join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrav...
Move over, record-breaking prodigies like GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, IM Faustino Oro, and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. Manuel Alvarez Escudero from Spain is 102 years old and celebrates eight (!) decades as a tournament player. He shows no signs of slowin...
Swedish chess player and influencer WFM Anna Cramling has revealed that she is among the many female players who were harassed by a male chess player, expressing her dismay at the punishment handed down to the perpetrator. Latvian IM Andrejs Str...
Few female players in chess history were able to win a round-robin classical event ahead of male grandmasters. IM Meruert Kamalidenova has now joined that elite group. The 19-year-old scored a stunning victory in the Karaganda Akim Cup, a closed...
The controversial Carlsen vs. Niemann scandal is confirmed to appear on Netflix in 2025, the streaming giant has announced. The news is setting the stage for what could be an explosive documentary on the drama and aftermath of the episode that sho...
We're excited to announce that you can now keep up with players' rating changes in real time right on our Events page! You can also quickly see players' performance ratings for that event. Learn more about these new features and how to turn them o...
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 ...
We're excited to announce our newest partner, Discord! One of the largest communication platforms in the world, Discord is among streamers' and gamers' favorite places to hang out while playing. To celebrate the occasion, we've just launch...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It was just a matter of time, but now it's finally official: GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has had his title confirmed, officially making him the world's youngest grandmaster. Several other rising stars also saw their titles approved. It's been almost ...
FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing several top female players, some of them children, by sending them obscene letters for over a d...
