Dear chessfans, Vincent Keymer won also his last game against Ray Robson and thus dominated this years Chennai Masters with a spectacular performance! 5 wins and 4 draws - not bad with these opponents!

Dear chess fans, next week it is again chess Freestyle time! Or rather chess960 or Fischerrandom, you name it. And this time the lineup of players is more than impressive! 8 from the current top 10 players

This is a historic debut! With this step competitive chess will be featured for the very first time in the Esports World Cup (EWC), the world’s largest gaming and esports festival. The event will take

Dear chess fans, not only is today evening round 2 of the Hivechess Season 20 played, but today is also the highly-expected start of the 2025 Chess960/Fischerrandom "Grand Slam" Tour, or

Dear chess fans, the first chess super-tournament of 2025 will start in 2 days, at 2pm CET, in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. These are the 14 players. Format is a single round-robin (so all 14 players play

Dear chessfans, Magnus Carlson clearly does not like classical chess too much these days, he will also skip the TATA Steel Masters 2025 (which starts this weekend), one of the most prestigious tournaments.

Shocking arbiter decision against the GOAT of chess

Dear chess fans, if Fischerrandom (or Chess960 or Freestyle Chess) is still too conventional for you, then you might want to go one step further and try out "Random Chess"! It is with normal

Reigning Chess World Champion Ding Liren scored his first victory and took an early lead (often the games 1 in WC matches end in draws). In this position Gukesh had to play Be1 to keep the balance, after

The 2024 Chess World Championship will take place in Singapore from November 25 to December 13! Current World Champion Ding Liren from China and challenger Gukesh Dommaraju from India will face each other

Anish Sarkar from Kolkata, India is just 3 years and 8 months old! He is the youngest player who has a FIDE rating (it is 1555)! This surpasses the record of Tejas Tiwari who was five when he got his first

Hi fans of Chess960, in St. Louis, this Monday 28th Oct., after just having completed the US championship (won by Fabiano Caruana) a socalled "Chess 9LX" round robin rapid tournament is starting:

this time it was not about cheating

The Global Chess League is an over-the-board rapid chess team tournament held in London which features 6 teams and the "strongest line-up of chess players in UK history". Each of these 6 teams

At the FIDE General Assembly in Budapest,Yolander Persaud was elected FIDE "Ethics and Disciplinary Commission Chairman". The CVs of the three candidates were given out to the delegates less

Dear chess fans, maybe chess players should just play chess and not touch politics? Magnus Carlsen 2 days ago was awarded a G.O.A.T trophy (greatest player of all time) by FIDE and in a little speech he

A team of surgeons recently succeeded in removing a 45-year-old patient’s highly invasive brain tumor, a glioblastoma, while also sparing areas linked to his chess-playing skills! The patient had asked

In round 6 of the 45th chess olympiad in Budapest the underdog from Austria at board one (Black) seemed to be in a hopeless position against the Polish no.1, GM Duda. 3 pieces are hanging at the same time

In round 4 of the Chess Olympiad Vasyl Ivanchuk was able to beat Wesley So (who blundered in in a winning position) and "so" helped to topple the top seeded US team! In this position Ivanchuck

Netflix users, watch out! The Carlsen vs. Niemann cheating scandal is confirmed to appear on Netflix in 2025! source Not as a standalone TV-show, but as an episode of the "Untold" project, which