The Edinburgh Chess Club, the second oldest chess club in the world, celebrates its bicentenary today. Founded on November 4, 1822, over the two centuries the club has been visited by famous players such as Howard Staunton, Joseph Blackburne, Jose...
Chess fans will have one more reason to celebrate National Chess Day, which falls on October 8 in 2022. From October 8 to October 16, ChessKid.com is offering free access to all of its premium features: unlimited lessons, puzzles, videos, and bots...
The International Chess Federation has announced plans to form an investigatory panel with the intention to check both GM Magnus Carlsen's claims of alleged cheating by GM Hans Niemann and Niemann's own statement regarding online cheating. A wee...
The September FIDE rating list, published today on the website of the International Chess Federation, shows the rise of the new generation of chess. Especially India is doing well, with big jumps for GMs Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, as well as GM Nih...
Mark your calendars for August 27-28 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CEST: PogChamps star Ludwig will be hosting the "dumbest" chess tournament yet. Yes, you read that right—Ludwig's Dumb Chess Tournament is coming this weekend! It is a collaboratio...
The summer holidays are coming to an end, and ChessKid is giving all parents and educators a 20% discount on Gold memberships to make sure young chess players can get easy access to child-friendly game analysis, puzzles, video lessons, and more. ...
A seven-year-old boy's finger was broken by an automated chess-playing robot during the Moscow Open in a video posted on July 21st. The original video, featured on the Baza channel on Telegram, has circulated on several social media platforms and ...
The main event of this year's Women's Speed Chess Championship begins on June 13. That means it's time for another bracket contest! Still free-to-play and featuring cash prizes, we've streamlined the prediction system, so keep reading! The prize p...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, now more than two months ago, several Russian grandmasters have decided to leave their country or not return to it. Chess.com spoke to four well-known players about their views of the war and the personal cho...
Chess.com and ChessKid are collaborating with GM Anna Muzychuk in order to support the people of Ukraine, who continue to suffer the effects of the Russian invasion of their country. On Tuesday, May 17 at 9 a.m. Pacific/12 p.m. Eastern/18:00 CET...
The May FIDE rating list has GM Ding Liren back as the world's number-two player, 58 points behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen and just two points ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, who had been in second place before. Meanwhile, the list reflects th...
Yesterday, Chess.com was banned by the Russian government agency Roscomnadzor, the "Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media." Roscomnadzor is responsible for censorship within Russia, a busy occupat...
"Ukraine is now on the frontline of the global war of freedom against tyranny," was one of several powerful quotes from GM Garry Kasparov in a TED Talk published on Tuesday—the day before his 59th birthday today. The pro-democracy activist a...
The main event of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG gets going on Monday, April 11, and Chess.com is running a contest for you the viewer as well! We are offering $1,500 in cash prizes and over a dozen diamond mem...
In what has become an annual 24-hour charity chess marathon organized by the English Chess Federation, the British Red Cross Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) raised over £18,000 ($23,636) last weekend for its Ukraine c...
The 2022 Chess Olympiad, scheduled for July 26-August 9, won't take place in Russia. This was announced by FIDE following Russia's invasion into Ukraine. Note that you can find Chess.com's stance on this topic here. This year's Olympiad was su...
WARNING: This reporting includes disturbing information of a sexual nature. Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
Note: We initially announced this content on February 1, but due to changes in the Grand Prix field, have restarted the contest. IF YOU VOTED YESTERDAY AND STILL WISH TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE COMPLETE THE NEW FORM. Welcome to the Chess.com 2022 Gr...
The World Champion, a film directed by Alexey Sidorov that depicts the dramatic world championship match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Viktor Korchnoi in 1978, hits cinemas in Russia on Thursday. While the 1972 "Match of the Century" in Reykj...
The December FIDE rating list officially confirms the meteoric rise of GM Alireza Firouzja, who is the new world number-two player, 52 points behind GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Levon Aronian now represents the U.S. while GM Hikaru Nakamura was removed f...
AlphaZero's learning process is, to some extent, similar to that of humans. A new paper from DeepMind, which includes a contribution from the 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, provides strong evidence for the existence of human-understan...
IM Levy Rozman, the popular streamer and content creator behind GothamChess, has recently announced the winners for his $100,000 chess scholarship program. In a partnership with ChessKid.com, the scholastic branch of Chess.com, Rozman recently c...
Earlier this week, FIDE, the International Chess Federation, announced a sponsorship for women's chess with Establishment Labs, a company producing and marketing a breast implant product line branded as Motiva®. This is the first-ever corporat...
The Netflix hit series The Queen's Gambit won a total of 11 Emmy Awards, including the top prize for limited series. At Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards, director Scott Frank received a trophy as well, a week after the series had already clinched ni...
