Tarjei J. Svensen is a Norwegian chess journalist who worked for some of the country's biggest media outlets and appeared on several national TV broadcasts. Between 2015 and 2019, he ran his chess website mattogpatt.no, covering chess news in Norwegian and partly in English.
In 2020, he was hired by Chess24 to cover chess news, eventually moving to Chess.com as a full-time chess journalist in 2023. He is also known for his extensive coverage of chess news on his X/Twitter account.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has handed GM Kirill Shevchenko a temporary 75-day suspension following last weekend's expulsion from the Spanish Team Chess Championship, where two locked phones were found in a bathroom. The...
17-year-old GM Christopher Yoo expresses deep remorse following his expulsion from the 2024 U.S Chess Championship where he struck a videographer. Update October 21: In a new statement released by Christopher Yoo, he says: I am really sorry fo...
Chess.com has announced an agreement with the founders of Silver Knights Chess, Adam and Daniel Weissbarth, to transition Magnus Chess Academy to them. The deal will see one of the leading scholastic chess coaching providers in the U.S. rebrande...
Mark Crowther, the founder of The Week in Chess (TWIC), single-handedly changed the chess landscape in the 90s and has provided an invaluable free resource for chess enthusiasts and professionals for 30 years. He has no plans of slowing down. Si...
At just 13 years of age, GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has become the youngest-ever player to record a rating of 2600, demolishing the previous record by close to a year. Upon returning to school in Turkiye, he received a hero's welcome. The Turkish pr...
Move over, record-breaking prodigies like GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, IM Faustino Oro, and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. Manuel Alvarez Escudero from Spain is 102 years old and celebrates eight (!) decades as a tournament player. He shows no signs of slowin...
Russian and Belarusian chess teams will remain banned, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) decided at the General Assembly on Sunday. Instead, delegates voted in favor of a motion to consider lifting some restrictions for vulnerable groups. ...
Two days before the General Assembly of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) prepares for a possibly pivotal vote to decide whether to lift sanctions on the Russian and Belarusian chess federations, the U.S. State Department has issued a stat...
Swedish chess player and influencer WFM Anna Cramling has revealed that she is among the many female players who were harassed by a male chess player, expressing her dismay at the punishment handed down to the perpetrator. Latvian IM Andrejs Str...
GM Magnus Carlsen made headlines for a short but powerful speech while accepting the FIDE award for Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T). Carlsen used the moment to express humility and send a strong message against reinstating the Russian and Belarusia...
Few female players in chess history were able to win a round-robin classical event ahead of male grandmasters. IM Meruert Kamalidenova has now joined that elite group. The 19-year-old scored a stunning victory in the Karaganda Akim Cup, a closed...
The controversial Carlsen vs. Niemann scandal is confirmed to appear on Netflix in 2025, the streaming giant has announced. The news is setting the stage for what could be an explosive documentary on the drama and aftermath of the episode that sho...
Nine-year-old CM Ethan Pang, the youngest-ever 2200 player, defeated three grandmasters in a recent classical tournament in Hungary and came close to breaking the 2300 rating barrier for the first time. Pang, who made headlines in July when he b...
Eight years after a freak accident left him paralyzed, Noland Arbaugh is not only playing chess with the help of a chip in his brain but he's also invited by Chess.com to attend the Speed Chess Championship Finals in Paris and meet the world's che...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is moving from its traditional 21-round Swiss format in the 2024 World Blitz Championship in New York, introducing a combined Swiss-and-knockout format. Just a week after FIDE announced a change of sched...
French WGM Andreaa Navrotescu achieved a feat that not even GM Magnus Carlsen could achieve before her. She won an event with a perfect 9/9 score. Chess.com regularly covers impressive performances from the chess world, but there are times when ...
IM Brewington Hardaway edged one giant step closer to becoming a grandmaster as he earned his final norm in Barcelona last week. The 15-year-old now only has one hurdle left to cross before he would make history as the second African American with...
A new study by one of the world's leading statisticians has found that GM Hikaru Nakamura's impressive streaks against high-level opponents on Chess.com are well within the expected probabilities. GM Vladimir Kramnik strongly criticizes the report...
FIDE has announced a significant change to the schedule of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Championships, taking place in New York in the last week of December, adding a rest day so that the event ends on New Year's Eve. FIDE announced in June ...
It was just a matter of time, but now it's finally official: GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has had his title confirmed, officially making him the world's youngest grandmaster. Several other rising stars also saw their titles approved. It's been almost ...
FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing several top female players, some of them children, by sending them obscene letters for over a d...
Sehba Shah overcame a severe physical handicap to become Pakistan Women's Champion. The 59-year-old will now lead the national team competing in the biggest chess event on the calendar. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which takes place in Hungary'...
A lower-rated amateur has been kicked out of an open tournament in the Netherlands after being caught with a cell phone hidden in his sock after previously raising eyebrows by defeating much higher-rated masters. The 26th edition of the Hogescho...
A chess player has been suspended by the Russian Chess Federation and is reportedly facing time in jail after she allegedly tried to poison her rival at the chessboard during a tournament. Amina Abakarova, a 40-year-old chess coach from Makhachk...
