Jorden van Foreest beat Gukesh in Round 3 of the Prague Masters, knocking the World Champion out of the live Top 10!

Argentinian prodigy IM Faustino Oro continues to break barriers. He's hit #5 on Chess.com blitz and can become the youngest grandmaster in history in March. www.chess.com/news/view/fa...

IM Reza Mahdavi, IM Renato Terry, and GM Arjun Erigaisi won 3 0 Thursday on February 26! www.chess.com/news/view/3-...

IM Renato Terry won #FreestyleFriday on February 27, the second week of the Freestyle Friday Championship, with a 9.5/11 score. www.chess.com/news/view/te...

The four GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Denis Lazavik had all been child prodigies themselves, but how much do they know about other rising stars? Think you know more? www.chess.com/article/view...

GMs Fabiano Caruana, Lorenzo Lodici, and Vasif Durarbayli lead the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 3.5 points apiece after four rounds. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Aravindh and Anton bounced back from losses in Round 1 of the Prague Masters to grab the wins in Round 2!

Round 1 in Prague saw 4 wins for White, a new World no. 4, and Gukesh holding a draw after a great knight sacrifice by Niemann!

Here are the top-10 on the #TitledTuesday Grand Prix after the Winter Split! The top eight qualify for the Chess.com Open Playoffs in March.

We're excited to announce that the Chess.com Global Championship is now called the Chess.com Open! The event, which starts on March 14, is set to be the world's largest open tournament. www.chess.com/news/view/an...

Carlsen & Gukesh will meet again as Norway Chess moves to Oslo this May!

GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the February 24 edition of #TitledTuesday to wrap up the winter split with his second win of the month, becoming one of eight qualifiers into the Chess.com Global Championship. www.chess.com/news/view/va...

Netflix officially announced that its highly anticipated documentary on the 2022 scandal, involving GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, will premiere on the platform on April 7, 2026. www.chess.com/news/view/ne...

At just 10 years old, English prodigy WIM Bodhana Sivanandan beat GothamChess three times in blitz. www.chess.com/article/view...

Happy 12th birthday to Supratit Banerjee, the winner of the ChessKid U13 Youth Championship—the future of English chess is bright after 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan reached the final with a stunning unbeaten 12/13! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

FM Vasilios Kasioumis, who was the runner-up last year, returned to win it all in the 2026 Chess.com 3-Check Championship! www.chess.com/news/view/ka...

It was @BortnykChess who grabbed the win as the race to qualify for the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship began!

Fabiano Caruana's response to narrowly missing out on a World Championship? Victory in Titled Tuesday and becoming the only player so far to win two of the three 3 0 Thursdays on the same day!

The Candidates pairings were announced today, including Caruana-Nakamura & Divya-Humpy in Round 1 on March 29!

"Jan Timman, a former world no. 2, multiple world championship candidate, 9-time Dutch Champion, prolific author, honorary editor of New in Chess magazine & endgame studies specialist, passed away on Wednesday after battling a serious illness. He was 74."

On February 14, 15-year-old American GM Andy Woodward broke the Chess.com bullet rating record, previously held by GM Hikaru Nakamura. www.chess.com/news/view/wo...

Fabiano Caruana won #TitledTuesday for the first time in nearly three years! www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

The University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) has added a new player and appears ready to regain the CCL championship form that they displayed in 2024! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

We take a last look back at how Magnus Carlsen won his 21st World Championship title!

37-year-old Chinese-born US GM Zhou Jianchao has set a new record streak of 158 classical games unbeaten!

Caruana looked sure to take the lead going into the final game, but Carlsen pulled off an incredible turnaround to clinch a 21st World Championship title!

Can Caruana stop Carlsen claiming a 21st World Championship title? We'll find out Sunday!

Magnus Carlsen won the group stage of the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship and picked Nodirbek Abdusattorov as his Semifinal opponent, while Vincent Keymer will take on Fabiano Caruana! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Matthias Bluebaum, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Jose Martinez won 3 0 Thursday on February 12! www.chess.com/news/view/ht...

GM Haik Martirosyan scored 10.5 points in #FreestyleFriday on February 13, the most of anyone since last July. www.chess.com/news/view/ma...

Can Magnus add to his collection of World Championship titles? The FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship starts tomorrow in Weissenhaus, Germany!

Days after its release, the Judit Polgar documentary Queen of Chess is already in the Netflix Global Top 10!

Javokhir Sindarov becomes the only player other than Magnus Carlsen to win Titled Tuesday twice in 2026!

We take a look at seven conclusions we can draw from this year's #SpeedChess Championship, won by Magnus Carlsen! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Magnus Carlsen defended his FIFTH title at, in his words, "probably the most fun #SpeedChess Championship match I've been a part of." Denis Lazavik upset Hikaru Nakamura in the match for third place. www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja are the two finalists in the 2025 #SpeedChess Championship! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

The 7uice Educational Fair, in partnership with Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, brought leaders from seemingly unrelated fields to the 64 squares on the chessboard. www.chess.com/news/view/7u...

Vincent Keymer warmed up for the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship by edging out Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Friday!

Congratulations to Maghsoodloo, Martirosyan & Martinez on clinching this week's 3 0 Thursday tournaments!

The documentary on the rise of Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, is out now on Netflix!

IM Polina Shuvalova set a new all-time Chess.com blitz rating record by a woman, surpassing the previous mark shared by IM Eline Roebers and WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya from last year. www.chess.com/news/view/sh...

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took home #TitledTuesday on February 3, becoming the first player all year to score 10/11 www.chess.com/news/view/va...

We take a last look back at a wild Tata Steel Chess 2026, where 10 of the 15 games played among the 2750+ players were decisive!

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus was recently described by Magnus Carlsen as the strongest 14-year-old in the history of the game. He's gained more points than anyone else among the world's top-100 players in the February rating list. www.chess.com/news/view/fe...

"I can’t express my happiness with words!" said Nodirbek Abdusattorov after finally winning the Tata Steel Chess Masters after 3 near misses!

Just as in 2023, Abdusattorov goes into the final round of Tata Steel Chess with a half-point lead. Can he clinch the title this time around?

Javokhir Sindarov has caught Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the lead with 2 rounds of Tata Steel Chess to go, with Hans Niemann joining the players only half a point behind!

Nakamura hit a new rating record of 3454 🤯 but it was Movahed, Carlsen & Lazavik who grabbed wins in yesterday's 3 0 Thursday!

Bluebaum crossed 2700 & moved into 2nd place in the Masters on the final rest day in Wijk aan Zee, while Gukesh & Keymer both hit back again. Ivanchuk beat the leader in the Challengers!

World Champion Gukesh and Defending GCT Champion Caruana are among the full participants of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour! www.chess.com/news/view/gr...