The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC) is back with a new, always-on format and more chess engines as Chess.com makes a major investment in the future of computer chess. Update: CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble is now live! Watch and cha...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will be the next opponent for the Komodo Monte Carlo engine as France's top grandmaster will play the computer in an odds match on Sept. 5. Watch the man-vs-machine event live on on Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess for fu...
Chess.com announced today the return of its official Crazyhouse Championship this month with a total prize pool of $2,000. The championship will feature a week of qualifiers and a live-streamed final tournament to crown the crazyhouse champion. ...
The powerful, open-source chess engine Stockfish narrowly beat out two strong commercial engines to win the first Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week. Stockfish placed clear first in the 10-engine round robin to reach the superfin...
Garry Kasparov, the 13th world chess champion and one of the game's all-time greats, will give online chess lessons to students on the MasterClass platform, the company announced today. The course will be Kasparov's first-ever chess lesson onlin...
The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen will face a grandmaster named for a former world champion in the next GM Blitz Battle on June 23. GM Tigran L. Petrosian of Armenia bested a field of 99 players Tuesday in what can be conside...
Hikaru Nakamura won Titled Tuesday 11, taking home $750 of the $2,000 prize pool and besting a group of 83 titled players, including 17 grandmasters. The final payout in Titled Tuesday is a $125 Game of the Tournament prize, sele...
Titled Tuesday 10 was the largest and strongest to date, and its $2,000 prize pool helped attract 32 grandmasters and more than 100 titled participants. This Titled Tuesday will also be the first to award a $125 Game of the Tournament priz...
Magnus Carlsen scored the first win of the 2015 Grenke Chess Classic super tournament today in Baden-Baden, Germany. Carlsen notched the tournament’s only full point in round two, defeating English GM Michael Adams in -- appropriatel...
