NM Anthony Levin caught the chess bug at the "late" age of 18 and never turned back. He earned his national master title in 2021, actually the night before his first day of work at Chess.com.
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The State of Chess returned on Thursday with several important updates. Chief Chess Officer Danny Rensch led the discussion that focused on community updates, fair play changes, site updates, and big media developments. You can watch the fu...
GMs Hans Niemann and Fabiano Caruana move on to the Quarterfinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating, respectively, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexey Sarana in the last two Round of 16 matches of the season. Bullet chess se...
With just over half the year behind us, 2024 has already treated us to several masterpieces on the 64 squares. In this article, we review the seven best games of the year so far. The games are listed in sequential order, starting with the beginn...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave just won Division I of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 on Wednesday, while GM Alexander Grischuk won Division II and GM Arjun Erigaisi Division III. We'll go over the five biggest takeaways from the third leg, of four, of the...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won Division I of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final. After four draws, he won on demand in the armageddon game to claim $30,000, 100 tour points, and a return to the season...
Divisions II and III of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 came to a close on Tuesday. GM Alexander Grischuk rose from the ashes of the Losers Bracket and defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi in two matches to win Division II, while GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM ...
GM Alireza Firouzja has succeeded in setting up another all-French clash with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 2-1 in the Losers Semifinals, but the F...
The French numbers one and two will face off in the Division I Winners Final of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave once again proved to be GM Magnus Carlsen's kryptonite, while GM Alireza Firouzja overcame GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda...
GM Alireza Firouzja may have suffered a "once-in-a-lifetime" nine-move loss against GM Fabiano Caruana, but he still won his Division I Winners Quarterfinal match in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. He'll play GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the Winners Semi...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Dmitry Andreikin won their matches on day two of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 to make it into Division I. They join the players who qualified through the last Champions Che...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura, and Mikhail Antipov finished in a three-way tie with 7/9 in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Play-in, but it was Nepomniachtchi who had the best tiebreaks. Mizzou student and CCL star Antipov reaches Division I ...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia with five rounds to spare. Scoring a total of 27 points across the five days, he matched GM Magnus Carlsen's record from 2019 of most points earned in a Grand Chess Tour rapid a...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, now by 4.5 points after the first day of blitz. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored the most points on Saturday and is Caruana's closest rival, along with GM Wesley ...
The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships concluded on July 11 in Krakow, Poland with the U.S. finishing at the top of the 50+ section and England claiming the 65+ tournament. In total, 65 teams and 307 players, including 32 grandmasters, par...
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-...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus, Antoni Radzimski, FM Henry Tudor, and CM Aaron Mendes all move on to the four-player Knockout of the ChessKid Youth Championship 2024 for players under 13. The four players finished in the top two of their respective group...
GM Denis Lazavik sailed through day two of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship Play-in, winning all three of his matches to qualify for the main event. He played 14 games total on Friday—against GMs Yuriy Kuzubov, M Pranesh, and Dmitry Andreik...
GM M Pranesh finished with the highest score, 9.5/11, in the Swiss stage of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship Play-in. He and seven other players advance to a double-elimination Knockout. Just one player will earn the last qualifying spot availabl...
Thirteen-year-old FM Tani Adewumi won his first national title at the 2024 U.S. Cadet Championship, which concluded on Sunday. By live rating, he should be 14 rating points away from earning the international master title. Undefeated, he finishe...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the 2024 Chess.com Chess960 Championship, defeating GM Denis Lazavik 3.5-1.5 in the Final and winning $2,000 in the process. Four days of qualifiers culminated on Friday with an eight-player knockout. The next community ...
The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships are scheduled to take place in the last week of December in New York, FIDE announced on Monday. The two championships, traditionally held over five days between Christmas and the New Year, are the ...
"We don't need no... invitation," to loosely borrow the lyrics from Pink Floyd, could be the hook to GM Arjun Erigaisi's theme song in the year 2024. Despite playing in almost no closed super-tournaments, which are invitation-only, he has been dom...
A player was caught red-handed at the Chicago Open 2024, using a phone to win chess games over the board. Unlike other offline cheating cases, the player didn't use a device outside the playing hall; instead, he used his phone in his lap, right at...
GM Andrew Tang won the inaugural 2024 Hyperbullet Chess Championship, the first event of the Chess.com Community Championships, on Friday. After losing a close match against GM Daniel Naroditsky in the first round, he climbed through the Lose...
