Champions Showdown

“Clearly the best educational book about chess” is how Alexander Grischuk once described Iossif Dorfman's “The Method in Chess”, and we're thrilled that the ...

Elina Danielian defeated Harika Dronavalli 15-13 on Thursday in the first Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinal. On Sunday, the other semifinal will ...

The Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship continues today with the first semifinal of the competition between GM Harika Dronavalli (India) and GM ...

In what was the most lopsided match in the round of 16, GM Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran was way too strong for GM Luca Moroni of Italy. The Iranian star won ...

GM Benjamin Gledura eliminated GM Awonder Liang on Tuesday in what was a thriller of a Junior Speed Chess Championship match. Gledura had lost the ...

It's been a good few days for the Russian class of 1998! 20-year-old Aleksandra Goryachkina won the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament with two r...

Today, the Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo and the Italian GM Luca Moroni are the next players to take part in the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess ...

Today GM Benjamin Gledura of Hungary plays GM Awonder Liang of the U.S. in what will be the last match in the round of 16 of the Chess.com Junior Speed ...

Magnus Carlsen convincingly retained his world chess champion title by beating Fabiano Caruana 3-0 in the rapid match at today's tiebreak in London.

Sponsored by ChessKid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Friday with its sixth match, this time between America's top junior GM ...

Despite losing the five-minute portion, Jeffery Xiong defeated Anton Smirnov by a wide margin in their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Friday.

Fabiano Caruana missed a golden chance to mate Magnus Carlsen in their classical game, but he still went on to win the Armageddon and become the ...

Fabiano Caruana played an excellent Armageddon game to become the only player to beat Magnus Carlsen at the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament ...

Magnus Carlsen has won his 7th tournament in a row after winning the classical game against Yu Yangyi in the penultimate round of Altibox Norway Chess.

Magnus Carlsen secured tournament victory in the penultimate round of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament. The world champion has a four-point lead ...

Magnus Carlsen now leads Altibox Norway Chess by two points with two rounds to go, after Wesley So blundered on move 16 of their Armageddon game....

Sponsored by ChessKid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Tuesday with its fifth match, this time between the two Russian talents ...

Magnus Carlsen has a chance to win the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament with a round to spare. On Wednesday, Levon Aronian defeated Yu Yangyi to ...

Making the difference in the three-minute segment, Alexey Sarana defeated Andrey Esipenko 15-12 on Tuesday. The next opponent for Sarana in the Junior ...