Champions Showdown

Wesley So has beaten Magnus Carlsen for the first time at a classical time control to blow Altibox Norway Chess 2018 wide open going into the fin...

Fabiano Caruana beat Sergey Karjakin in Altibox Norway Chess Round 5 to return to 50% while dragging his opponent down to the same level. That wa...

Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson's quest to solve the world's chess opening problems continues as he answers a third batch of questions posed by chess24 ...

World Champion Magnus Carlsen has beaten his upcoming challenger Fabiano Caruana in Round 1 of the 2018 edition of Altibox Norway Chess, opening ...

Magnus Carlsen tops the field as the 6th edition of Altibox Norway Chess begins today in Stavanger with the traditional blitz opener. The World C...

Vasif Durarbayli doubled up Varuzhan Akobian in a rapid tiebreak for first place in the top 'A' group of the St. Louis Summer Classic, winning both playoff games ...

Chess.com's overview of the strongest chess events of the year. Missing an event? Please let us know in the comments. Click here for results of earlier, ...

Find out when the top chess events and tournaments are taking place! Missing a strong event? Please let us know in the comments. FEBRUARY 2019 Date ...

The 2018 African Individual Chess Championship was a walk in the park for Egyptian GM Bassem Amin, the only African player to ever reach a rating of 2700.

The Saint Louis Chess Club continues to expand its offerings of world-class chess. Four times a year, for example, invitational tournaments are held, in which ...

20-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda has won the 2018 Polish Championship by a full point after a run of four wins in a row that included beating defend...

Sam Shankland is on a roll. He added to his recent U.S. Championship triumph by dominating the annual Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba from start to ...

Ju Wenjun takes a one-point lead into the final classical game of the Women's World Championship on Friday, meaning a draw is enough to make her ...

Shortly after winning a gold medal in the women's 60kg category at the Asian Cadet Championships in the Uzbek city of Tashkent, wrestler Anshu Malik received ...

Shortly after winning a gold medal in the women's 60kg category at the Asian Cadet Championships in the Uzbek city of Tashkent, wrestler Anshu Malik received ...

This year's Capablanca Memorial is missing 7-time winner Vassily Ivanchuk and Cuban no. 1 Leinier Dominguez, but it got a boost just before it be...

Russian Grandmaster Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) has passed away at the age of 85. The 6-time Moscow Champion only began to play chess at the age ...