The Cinderella basketball teams busted your March Madness bracket to smithereens. Fortunately, the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Playoffs are just in time to give you another shot at office pool glory. The playoffs begin with wild card weekend on Saturday, March 25 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific/2:00 p.m and has a $10,000 prize pool. Eastern. Here’s …
You can now play chess against some of the strongest women players in history! Head over to our Play Computer page to challenge GMs Judit Polgar, Hou Yifan, Anna Muzychuk, and Irina Krush. These new bots will be in the Top Players section of the Play Computer page and will be a permanent fixture on …
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Boom! GM Hikaru Nakamura and Misfits Gaming Group are thrilled to announce a massive and thrilling chess tournament series: Hikaru’s Chess Decathlon. This epic ten-tournament contest kicks off with a format for which Hikaru is the reigning World Champion. That’s right, event 1 will be a Chess960 spectacular on Monday, March 27 at 9 a.m. …
GM Alexey Sarana won the European Individual Chess Championship on Monday in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster, who played under the FIDE flag, edged out GMs Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine) and Daniel Dardha (Belgium) on tiebreak. The three players all finished on 8.5 points out of 11 rounds in what was a large Swiss …
GM Magnus Carlsen will return to Norway Chess, his homecoming tournament, after he abdicates his world champion title, it was announced on Monday. Once again, the world number-one tops the lineup for the elite event—now in its 11th year—held in the southwestern city of Stavanger from May 29 to June 9. In a matchup that …
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In week four of the 2023 Pro Chess League, the Levitov Chess Wizards and the Garden State Passers won their matches against the Canada Chessbrahs and California Unicorns, respectively. The Chess Wizards qualify for the Playoffs, while the Passers move on to week five. GM Aleksandr Shimanov was unquestionably the MVP for the Chess Wizards …
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Blitz chess will be included in the upcoming inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 with Chess.com playing host to a unique qualifying event. The world’s leading online chess platform has been selected by FIDE, recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the game’s governing body, to run a mass participation pre-event tournament—and you are invited …
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GM Alejandro Ramirez announced his resignation on Monday from the Saint Louis Chess Club and will no longer coach the Saint Louis University chess team. On February 15, WGM Jennifer Shahade reported on Twitter that Ramirez assaulted her twice and that other victims told her their own stories of alleged abuse. She also alluded to …
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On Saturday, 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 of the game of chess together with Daryl Morey, the President of basketball operations …
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The Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) has completed its historic switch to Asia in a move branded by the European Chess Union (ECU) as a “shameful day” for the game. The Asian Chess Federation (ACF) formally adopted the CFR into its ranks at a meeting of its General Assembly in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The …
