GM Maurice Ashley is establishing a new initiative aimed at nurturing the talents of young chess players from underserved communities in the United States. Ashley has made his move to address the persistent underrepresentation of African America...
SRM clinched first place in Division I of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season in the last week of the regular season. In Division II, UCLA defeated Illinois with a round to spare. SRM's top three boards, IM A Ra Harikrishnan, IM S...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as the winner of the 2024 Chennai Grand Masters after tying for first place with GMs Levon Aronian and Arjun Erigaisi and defeating Aronian in the final of the tiebreak with a 2-0 score. The format of the thre...
Kyla Zhao brings her own experiences to life in her new novel May The Best Player Win, delving into gender inequality and stereotypes, captivating readers within and beyond the chess community. “I just want to remind people that there are ...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's first win of the tournament in the sixth and penultimate round handed GM Arjun Erigaisi his first loss of the tournament, thus enabling GM Levon Aronian to join Arjun in the lead with four points in the Masters section o...
Two and a half decades after GM Maurice Ashley became the first African American grandmaster, GM-elect Brewington Hardaway has climbed to the top of the mountain. Born in the Bronx, New York, 15-year-old Hardaway has completed the requirements to ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky, who celebrated his 29th birthday on Saturday, showed that with age comes wisdom as he won his 24th Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrew Tang. Naroditsky notched 77.5/83 and scored...
GM Arjun Erigaisi continues to lead the Masters section of the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 with four points after a draw with GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the fifth round. Trailing him by half a point is GM Levon Aronian who defeated GM Maxime Vachier-...
GM Awonder Liang defeated GM Jeffery Xiong 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final to win the Seirawan Chess Championship 2024 and $600. It was an exciting clash between the two friends who together won the Bughouse Chess Championship earlier this year. GM Yas...
The fourth round brought the two joint leaders to face each other: GM Amin Tabatabaei vs. GM Arjun Erigaisi, and it proved to be another big fight where Arjun prevailed to continue to lead the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 Masters section with 3.5/4....
Eight players have qualified for the Seirawan Chess Championship 2024 Knockout, the penultimate event of the Community Chess Championships. They are, in chronological order of when they qualified: Arian Rahimpour, IM Kacper Drozdowski, GM Mitrabha...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina has won the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix, 130 Grand Prix points, and €18,000 after making a draw with IM Nurgyul Salimova in the final round for a 7/9 score. GM Tan Zhongyi finished just half a point behind ...
IM Nurgyul Salimova's win over IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul was the only decisive game of round eight of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina's five-game winning streak was ended by GM Koneru Humpy, but when GM Tan Zhong...
The third-round encounter between GMs Arjun Erigaisi and GM Alexey Sarana at the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 had two distinct phases: the first 23 moves, flawlessly played by both sides, and the rest marred by tactical errors. But what mattered was...
GMs Anish Giri and Vidit Gujrathi consider GM Gukesh Dommaraju a big favorite to defeat the reigning World Champion GM Ding Liren. The two friends shared their candid predictions for the 2024 FIDE World Championship, set to begin in Singapore on...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina brushed aside IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to score a fifth win in a row in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix, but her lead remained at one point as IM Nurgyul Salimova's attack backfired against GM Tan Zhongyi. The ot...
In response to the tragic flood that has devastated the region in Valencia, Spain, Chess.com's Spanish team organized a fundraiser to bring food, clothing, and other essential resources to those who need it. Many prominent players and personalitie...
GMs Leon Mendonca and Pranav Venkatesh lead the Challengers with second straight wins, while there is a three-way tie in the Masters section between GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Amin Tabatabaei, all on 1.5, at the end of the sec...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your Titled Tuesday victors from November 5, the second straight week where both winners scored 10 points and neither winner needed the tiebreaks. In the early tournament won by Andreikin, however, t...
The Chennai Grand Masters 2024 got off to an exciting start with six decisive games combined from both sections in the first round, with many see-saw encounters and generally enterprising play, instead of typical cautious starts in the beginning. ...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina took a one-point lead with three rounds of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix to go after grinding out a win against the struggling GM Elisabeth Paehtz. GM Kateryna Lagno scored a first win, against second-placed I...
We're excited to announce the next installment of Kids vs. Stars, this time with a twist! On November 15, get ready to see none other than GM Anish Giri taking on four of the brightest young stars in chess—all at the same time! Starting at...
World Champion GM Ding Liren revealed that he considers himself the clear underdog in his title match against his challenger, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, admitting that he is worried that he will lose "very badly." With less than three weeks to the 202...
Forget Peppa Pig and Baby Shark. Three-year-old Anish Sarkar has different idols: chess stars IM Levy Rozman and GM Magnus Carlsen. The prodigy has become the world's youngest-rated player by earning his first FIDE rating, which is 1555. A...
In the process of winning his fourth U.S. Championship title, GM Fabiano Caruana has re-entered the 2800 club and overtaken GM Hikaru Nakamura as the world number-two. Caruana looks to have again found his flow, winning the national title with a 1...
