Parents and mentors often believe that girls have a lower potential in chess than boys, a bias that is more pronounced among those who think chess success requires brilliance. These findings, the first large-scale evidence of bias against youth fe...
Update: The ChessKid National Festival has expanded its scope and now features events for kids up to K-8! Other new additions include Hula Chess, Fencing Chess, a live band, and a guest appearance by WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez! Chess...
The summer holidays are coming to an end, and school is about to start again (or already has!). For parents and educators (or anyone with a chess-loving kid in their family), ChessKid is the best resource you can use to give them an extraordinary ...
Update: Unfortunately, due to the late-notice replacement of GM Ding Liren with GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, we have had to cancel the 2023 SCC Bracket Contest. The 2023 Speed Chess Championship is sprinting towards us, with only a week left before ...
Chess.com is pleased to announce the inaugural #ChessConnectsUs Championship, a special event held as part of GM Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival on October 14, 2023. This unique competition gives chess clubs and organizations from around th...
Update: The winners have been announced! Find the details below. The 2023 FIDE World Cup is the biggest over-the-board knockout event of the year, and you can punch your ticket to amazing prizes just by predicting who wins! GMs Hikaru Nakamu...
Imagine a sun-filled day with an over-the-board game in a picturesque park such as Columbus Park in New York City. It’s a scene we all enjoy watching. Would you be surprised to see tennis great Roger Federer on one side of the chessboard fac...
TwitchCon Paris takes place on July 8 and 9, 2023, and chess will be well-represented as one of the internet's most popular games. Some of the biggest names in chess content creation will be present at the convention to meet their fans and...
Ukrainian grandmaster Vadim Malakhatko, two-time Kyiv champion, winner of Olympic bronze and world championship gold medals, open tournament warrior, and passionate organizer of chess tournaments in Ukraine, suddenly died on Monday of a heart atta...
Have you watched Bullet Brawl yet? This two-hour monthly arena sees titled players compete against each other at lightning speed using a 1+0 time control. While you might not be able to compete with GM Hikaru Nakamura in the titled event, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won't be the world champion starting next week, but he's still looking for new ways to grow the game of chess. On Thursday, Norway Chess announced their new joint venture called Pawn, together with Iterate, Norway's premier ventu...
A mysterious participant in the women's section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament. The player, whose identity was not made public, admitted to the cheating and sai...
Do you only watch an award show if someone gets slapped in the face? Well, you're in luck (again)! Back for its second year, The Streamer Awards are happening on Saturday, March 11, starting at 3 p.m. PT, and it's being presented by and strea...
Eight women have accused GM Alejandro Ramirez of wrongdoing in an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. In the newspaper, the women claim that Ramirez used his status in chess to put himself in positions of influence and make re...
On Friday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management's annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth ...
The official FIDE ratings are in for March 2023, and at first glance they seem consistent with the February list, but look more closely and you see a notable name missing: GM Sergey Karajkin, who has now been inactive for a full 12 months and...
One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and started a war that has been going on much longer than expected and that is probably not ending soon. In March of 2022, Chess.com spoke to several Ukrainian chess players about how the terrible developments ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Singapore-based quantitative trading firm Quantbox. This marked Erigaisi's first-ever sponsorship deal in his chess career as a professional player of the sport. GM Arjun ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura filed a motion in the Eastern District of Missouri to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's lawsuit on December 7. This is the latest development in the defamation lawsuit that has received international attention, filed in late October. Ch...
Wearing a face mask during a game of chess decreases the quality of chess players' decisions, an effect that is relatively short and mostly hurts strong players. This is the conclusion of a study about the effect of masks on cognitive performance ...
Are you a member of the Chess.com Discord server? If not, now’s the time to join! We’ve just revamped our server, giving you lots of brand-new benefits and ways to be part of a community full of 35,000+ chess lovers. What’s new...
Chess.com has formally requested the Eastern Missouri District Court to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's defamation lawsuit. The motion to dismiss, filed on December 2, 2022, asserts that the lawsuit "could have been brought only as a public relations st...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two biggest stars of football (soccer), are playing chess in Louis Vuitton's latest campaign, launched on Saturday. Chess fans quickly discovered that the position on the board is from a real game. "Victor...
