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Chess.com is an internet chess server. The largest chess platform in the world, the site operates on a freemium model in which some features are available...

Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White"...

com global championship and was also banned from playing on Chess.com in any way. Chess.com published a report noting over 100 games on the site in which...

chess engines in the world for several years. It has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess...

such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...

admitted. Chess.com removed Niemann from their platform in the days after Carlsen's withdrawal from the Sinquefield Cup. FIDE, the international chess governing...

The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

GothamChess, is an American chess international master, entrepreneur, content creator, commentator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher"...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025–2026 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025–2026 by Chess.com. The tour started on 2 September 2025...

Chess.com as "M" Master samayraina also known as (Blunder Master "BM"). As of 5 May 2026[update], Raina has a rating of 1621 at rapid chess on chess.com...

Major chess events in 2026 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Prague Chess Festival, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. The Candidates Tournament...

via Chess.com at the 2023 Olympic Esports Week. Chess has yet to debut as a full sport at the Olympics. The first known attempt to include chess in the...

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will...

for LGBT 'propaganda'", Jerusalem Post, 26 April 2022 "Chess.com Banned By Russia". Chess.com. 24 April 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022. "Roskomsvoboda"...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

American chess grandmaster, internet personality, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he...

Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion...

Chess Championships are a family of annual blitz chess tournaments held and hosted by the online chess platform Chess.com. The reigning Speed Chess Champion...

2024. In online chess, he was a top player in blitz and bullet, having been the No. 1 rated player at times in both formats on Chess.com and Lichess. He...

Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. The Grand Chess Tour was announced on April 24, 2015, at the Saint Louis Chess Club in...

Mittens is a chess engine developed by Chess.com. It was released on January 1, 2023, alongside four other engines, all of them given cat-related names...

also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM)...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025 by Chess.com. The tour started on 16 February 2025 and ended...

Advancements in computer performance and chess engine development have culminated in virtually all users of online chess sites having the means to access engine...

There are 44 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...

Major chess events in 2025 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun defended...

is also popular on internet chess servers such as Chess.com and Lichess. It is unknown specifically where three-check chess originated, but David Pritchard...

Toast. In June, White participated in the first PogChamps chess tournament, which Chess.com hosted. He won "one of the more anticipated games" in the...

Chessgames.com is a chess website that maintains a database of chess games combined with discussion forums. Chessgames.com co-founder Daniel Freeman described...

Dragon by Komodo Chess (also known as Dragon or Komodo Dragon) are UCI chess engines developed by Komodo Chess, which is a part of Chess.com. The engines...

American chess international master, event organizer, lecturer, and commentator. He is a co-founder and the chief chess officer of Chess.com. Rensch won...

Andy Austin Woodward (born 2010) is an American chess grandmaster and prodigy. Woodward earned his first IM norm in the 2021 North American Junior Championship...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It can move one vacant square directly forward, or one or two vacant squares...

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest...

article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed...

chess, Centaur chess or Cyborg chess Blindfold chess Chess handicap Correspondence chess Blitz chess Chess as mental training Chess boxing The Chess Variant...

A chess variant is any board game related to, derived from, or inspired by orthodox chess. Chess variants can differ from standard chess in many different...

bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range...

Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with...

Chess Arena (formerly FIDE Online Arena) is the official Internet chess server of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), operated by World Chess Plc...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square...

designed for rating chess players. It is a special case of the Bradley–Terry model. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system over...

The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title has been awarded since 1950 to players who have met the standards required by...

February 2024, he won "Best Chess Streamer" at the 2023 Streamer Awards. In March 2024, Steinkamp reached 1705 Elo on Chess.com, a rating that is in the...

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may...

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...

Andrew Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American chess player who held the title of International Master. He is the father of internet...

a commentator for Chess.com, covering events such as the World Chess Championship and Candidates Tournament. He also streams chess content on his Twitch...

Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2026. The tournament took place...

online chess. It is offered by many chess websites, including the Internet Chess Club, the Free Internet Chess Server, Chess.com, and Lichess. Chess.com allows...

The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...

participate in many international chess tournaments, he is active on various online chess platforms, including Lichess and Chess.com. On his channel, Radić reviews...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale...

conventional chess program. The Leela Chess Zero project was first announced on TalkChess.com on January 9, 2018, as an open-source, self-learning chess engine...

Queen of Chess is a 2026 American documentary film which explores the life and career of Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár. It was directed by...

Magnus in 2014, before merging with chess24 in 2019 and being acquired by Chess.com in 2022. In October 2013, Magnus Carlsen co-founded the Oslo-based Play...

The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...

The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It consisted of five "Grand...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

Lengyel started playing chess on his stream. In April, he received mentoring from chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. Twitch and Chess.com collaborated to organize...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com. The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on...

Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically...

unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; named opening lines, see List of chess openings;...

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...

Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy, International Master and grandmaster-elect. In 2023, when Oro was nine, he received...

Alice Teresa Lee (born October 13, 2009) is an American chess player with the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is...

Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League and abbreviated PCL) was an online rapid chess league operated by Chess.com. It was preceded by the...

The 44th Chess Olympiad (28 July – 10 August 2022) was a FIDE-organised international team chess event held in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India...

IPA: [jaˈɯz ka.an erˈdoːmuʃ] (born 3 June 2011) is a Turkish chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he was awarded the International Master title prior to...

chess24.com was an Internet chess server in English and ten other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman...

host cities. The first edition is being co-developed with online chess platform Chess.com and video-game publishers Electronic Arts, Krafton, Moonton, SNK...

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

BOH-tez; born 1995) is an American-born Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber. In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master...

Total Chess World Championship 2026 will be the first Total Chess World Championship, announced by Norway Chess on October 15, 2025, approved and endorsed...

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...

worldchess.com and by NRK. The classical time-control portion of the match ended with 12 consecutive draws, the only time in the history of the world chess championship...

2020, QTCinderella participated in the PogChamps 2 amateur chess tournament hosted by Chess.com, reaching the semifinals of the consolation bracket. On May...

In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...

The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge was an 8-player over-the-board classical Chess960 tournament that took place at Gut Weißenhaus in Wangels, Germany...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team...

The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards...

July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning and five-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2023 was a fast chess tournament circuit that was organized in 2023 by Chess.com. The tour started on 6 February 2023 and...

Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster...

FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 was the third official World Chess960 Championship, organized by FIDE and Freestyle Chess Operations. The...

Chess Club (ICC), Chess.com, ChessCube, PlayChess.com, and lichess.org. For most of 2011, Hansen was recognized as the highest-rated player on ChessCube...

Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to...

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player...

TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament is an annual chess tournament in Malmö, Sweden organised by Limhamns SK [sv], a local Malmö chess club. The tournament...

Norway Chess 2025 was the 13th edition of the annual closed chess tournament held in Stavanger. It was held from 26 May to 6 June 2025. The field of six...

August 2020, he participated in the livestreamed chess tournament Tournament Arc, hosted by Chess.com for anime YouTubers. He lost to Gigguk in the finals...

an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child...

every Friday. In August 2020, Maneetapho participated in a chess tournament hosted by Chess.com for anime YouTubers. Reaching the finals, Maneetapho beat...

The Grand Chess Tour 2025 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the tenth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of six tournaments with...

In chess, en passant (French for 'in passing') describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made...

Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 World Chess Championship, becoming the youngest undisputed world chess champion at the age of 18. The Candidates Tournament...

erroneously given the honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) is a series of elite online rapid chess tournaments organized by Chess.com. It was established in 2020 by the Play Magnus...

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...

Women represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and...

is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851...

Chess.com. June 24, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2025. "BlitzChamps III". Chess.com. May 23, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2025. "BlitzChamps IV". Chess.com....

is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion...

गिरि; Russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster...

chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess, or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug. The name Siamese chess is also used but...

uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The opening's name is thought to originate either from Chess.com user "Lenny_Bongcloud", who used the...

Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion...

[æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating...

German chess grandmaster. He is currently the 6th highest rated player in the world with an Elo of 2767. He was the No.1 in the FIDE World Chess Ratings...

of notable chess games sorted chronologically. 1475: Francesc de Castellví vs Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played...

was the first chess tournament at the Esports World Cup, which is part of a three-year partnership between online gaming platform Chess.com and the Esports...

This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code...

Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2024. The tournament took place...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...

rocket on January 14, 2025. CrunchLabs sponsored a leg of Chess.com's 2024 Champions Chess Tour. In 2025, it was announced that CrunchLabs would be launching...

Javokhir Sindarov (born 8 December 2005) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster in 2018 at the age of 12 years, 10 months...

October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who was the 17th World Chess Champion from 2023–24. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and was part of...

The Total Chess World Championship Tour, organized by Norway Chess and approved by FIDE, is an annual series of chess tournaments among top players combining...

French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. A chess prodigy...

2024. Team (CHESScom), Chess com. "Announcing BlitzChamps With NFL Stars Fitzgerald, Thibodeaux, Parsons, And More!". Chess.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022...

The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body...

Arjun Kumar Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years...

PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com. Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch...

Houston, Texas. In addition, Morey is an avid chess player and has his own chess bot on the website Chess.com. In 2002, Morey left EY-Parthenon to become...

accounts and banning us out of nowhere." In June 2020, Fu participated in a Chess.com tournament for Twitch streamers titled PogChamps. She made it to the quarterfinals...

Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, with the difference that all captures result in an "explosion" through which the capturing...

Cecilia Cristina Botez (/ˈboʊtɛz/ BOH-tez; born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ and internet personality. She is mostly known as...

Kasparov Chess is a commercial internet chess server, internet forum and social networking website. The former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is...

In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one...

Capablanca chess, also called Knighted chess, is a family of over twenty Western chess variants which incorporate two new pieces. The family includes...

Фазлиддин ўғли Абдусатторов; born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of...

acquired by Chess.com, an American company. In 2024 it was announced that New in Chess was sold to Quality Chess. The new group of chess book publishers...

Foundation and the All India Chess Federation. He was found to have used computer assistance to defeat Anand, prompting Chess.com to ban his account for a...

‹ The template Infobox musical is being considered for merging. › Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group...

(Russian: Роман Саврович Шогджиев; born 4 February 2015) is a Russian chess player. A chess prodigy, he became the youngest international master in history...

considered one of Anand's greatest masterpieces; Chess.com staff ranked it as the third-best chess game of all time, behind Kasparov's Immortal and the...

photographer for Chess.com. In 2025, Emelianova transferred to the Royal Belgian Chess Federation. "Kick Channel". Retrieved 31 May 2025. "Photo Chess". Twitch...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 was the 87th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 17 January to 2 February...

pronunciation; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is...

The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants. Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given...

Chess Super League is an online chess tournament organized by Samay Raina, ChessBase India, Nodwin Gaming. Players in the tournament, consist of some of...

David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess grandmaster and commentator. A three-time British champion (2009, 2013 and 2014), he...

masterpiece and Chess.com has listed it as the No. 1 chess game ever played. This section uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. White: Kasparov...

Christopher Woojin Yoo (born December 19, 2006) is an American chess grandmaster. He became the youngest International Master in American history in February...

against other popular Twitch streamers in the amateur chess tournament PogChamps of Chess.com, placing second in the consolation bracket. Ahgren subsequently...

Internet chess servers. Chess.com ChessBase Chessmaster Live FIDE Online Arena Free Internet Chess Server Internet Chess Club Kasparov Chess Lichess chess24...

Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster and politician. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's...

Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is a 2024 World Blitz Chess co-champion, alongside Magnus Carlsen. He is also a two-time Russian chess champion...

Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at...

Anna Rudolf (born 12 November 1987) is a Hungarian chess player, chess commentator, livestreamer, and YouTuber who holds the titles of International Master...

Simon Kim Williams is an English chess grandmaster and author who is best known under the pseudonym and Chess Server Nickname "GingerGM". In 1993, he received...

On 3 December 2021, in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2021, the defending world champion Magnus Carlsen (as White) defeated the challenger...

Kazakhstani chess grandmaster. She is the reigning three-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player...

2002) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 2012, and both the European U16 and World U16 Chess Championship in 2017...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

The open event at the 45th Chess Olympiad was held from 11 to 22 September 2024. It was contested by a record number of 197 teams, representing 195 nations...

The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine...

an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup...

draw In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, in which neither player wins. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including...

Chess.com, an internet chess server and social networking website GNU Chess, a free software chess engine Chess (2006 film), a Malayalam film Chess (2008...

Youth Chess Championships 2014". chess-results.com. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Bronstein memorial 2016". chess-results.com. Chess.com (News)...

The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri...

1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...

Hebrew: דינה ואדימובנה בלנקיה; born 22 December 1993) is a Russian-Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of...

Blitz Chess Championships. He finished 16th in the Blitz tournament and 42nd in the Rapid tournament. In January 2023, Lazavik won a Chess.com-hosted...

commercial computer chess mobile app available for the iOS and Android mobile operating systems. The software is named after former World Chess Champion Magnus...

Chess' As BBC's 'Chess Masters' Sparks Mixed Reactions Following Premiere". Chess.com. Retrieved 11 June 2025. Mangan, Lucy (10 March 2025). "Chess Masters:...

Martinez Martin | Top Chess Players". Chess.com. Retrieved 2025-12-21. GmbH, ChessBase. "David Martinez Martin player profile". ChessBase Players. Retrieved...

The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 was a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament...

destination. Premoving is available on chess websites such as the Internet Chess Club, the Free Internet Chess Server, Chess.com, and Lichess. To premove, a player...

Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and won the 2025 FIDE Circuit...

Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 0-19-280049-3. "Fork in Chess - Chess Terms". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09...

is a Canadian chess grandmaster, Twitch/Kick streamer, and Youtube content creator. He is a member of the 'Chessbrahs' (a Canadian chess entertainment...

Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international chess federation...

International Braille Chess Association (IBCA), the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA), and the International Chess Committee of the...

Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez (born 21 June 1988) is a Costa Rican-American chess Grandmaster and commentator. At the age of 15, he became the first Central...

born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster...

internet chess server that is free and open-source, run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously...

Anna Yolanda Bellón Cramling (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE...

Dubov (Russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the...

Wei Yi (Chinese: 韦奕; born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 11th...

qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on Chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited players in...

"IM Sina Movahed (Sina_Movahed) - Chess Profile". Chess.com. Chess.com. Retrieved 13 September 2025. "Iran's chess player Movahed wins Baku Open 2024"...

overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard with 32 pieces. Chess can be described as all of the...

Dark chess (also known as Fog of War chess) is a chess variant with incomplete information, similar to Kriegspiel. It was invented by Jens Bæk Nielsen...

ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996...

during the online charity event against five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand. Chess.com suspended their accounts for violating fair play. Sudeepa...

2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place...

November 2002) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25, She won individual Gold at Chess Olympiad 2024, She was ranked...

31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012...

Chess-results.com. "Prague Chess Festival Masters 2020". Chess-results.com. "Prague Chess Festival Challengers 2020". Chess-results.com. "Prague Chess Festival...

New Zealand-born chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She represented New Zealand in five Chess Olympiads and England...

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess...

The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 White offers a pawn to divert the black e-pawn. If Black accepts the gambit...

Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber/Twitch streamer. He had previously been nicknamed the...

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (born 24 October 1994) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Gujrathi attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the...

The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The 2025 tournament took place...

Richárd Rapport (born 25 March 1996) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 11 months...

The open event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), was held from 2–13 September 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan...

Горячкина; born 28 September 1998) is a Russian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the highest rated Russian woman in chess history with a peak FIDE rating of 2611...

points from 6 games" for 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw. Chess piece relative value FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss: Firouzja and Lei triumph in Riga, FIDE, 8...

Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Polish: [ˈjan ˌkʂɨʂtɔf ˈduda] ; born 26 April 1998) is a Polish chess grandmaster. A prodigy, he achieved the grandmaster title in 2013 at the...

January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the reigning five-time Women's World Champion, a former Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two-time...

Doping in chess involves the use of performance-enhancing substances in the game of chess, especially in a professional competitive context. Whether such...

Wang Hao (Chinese: 王皓; pinyin: Wáng Hào; born August 4, 1989) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang became the fourth Chinese player to...

Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600...

Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She is a two-time champion of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, winning...

is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She...

born 17 September 1984) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. A two-time national champion, he competed in two Chess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2008 and...

1996) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster in 2018 by winning Magistral Acre and won the title of Brazilian Chess Champion in 2021....

The Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam was a Chess960 tournament that took place in Paris, France from 7 April to 14 April 2025. It was the second leg of...

September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In September 2019, she...

is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He co-founded ChessBase India in late...

(Georgian: სოფიკო გურამიშვილი; born 1 January 1991) is a Georgian and Dutch chess player, author, and commentator who holds the titles of International Master...

books Chess Bitch, Play Like a Girl, Chess Queens, and most recently, Thinking Sideways. She is also co-author of Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. From...

There were several concerns and controversies related to the 45th Chess Olympiad, which took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to 23 September 2024...

The participation of transgender people in chess refers to transgender individuals who compete in chess tournaments. As of 2025[update], it is a controversial...

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...

to 10. All qualification matches were played online and were hosted by Chess.com. All non-titled players started qualification in one of two separate open...

our Savior." Awuzie is an avid chess player who commonly plays 1. e4 and plays on Chess.com. He has compared his chess game to his play on the football...

The 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls...

English chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 2025 and the title of FIDE Master in 2026. Sivanandan began playing chess during...

Female chess players in the modern era generally compete in a mix of open and women's tournaments. With women representing a low fraction of all chess players...

chess-results.com. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad". chess-results.com. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com -...

"Chessable Masters 2025". Chess.com. Retrieved 2025-05-25. "Chess.com Classic 2025". Chess.com. Retrieved 2025-05-25. "DreamHack Dallas 2025". Chess.com...

Grenke Chess Festival is an annual chess event held in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden and sponsored by Grenke AG. The Grenke Chess Classic...

In chess, prophylaxis consists of a move or series of moves done by a player to prevent their opponent from taking some action. Such preventive moves...

Rapid Chess Championship 2024 was the 2024 edition of the annual World Rapid Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champions in chess played...

commentator for high-profile chess events. He also spent many years teaching chess. On April 13, 2016, Ashley was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame. Ashley...

1983) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and five-time Georgian champion (2003, 2007, 2012, 2024, 2026). He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in...

Iranian-American chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. Pourkashiyan began playing chess when she was 8...

March 18, 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has...

a Brazilian chess grandmaster, streamer, and the current Director of Portuguese Content for Chess.com. He is a two-time Brazilian Chess Champion. Born...

Tata Steel Chess India is a chess tournament held in Kolkata, India. It is held using rapid and blitz chess time controls. The venue for the event is Dhanadhanya...

No Castling Chess is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and thoroughly explored by DeepMind...

bughouse chess. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Though the four-player "bughouse" chess became prominent in western chess circles...

June 2019. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Master Tournament (MTO)". chess-results.com. Retrieved 5 August 2021. "The Week in Chess 1431". theweekinchess...

a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against 1.e4. The Caro-Kann Defense reflects general chess principles...

chess grandmaster and former World Rapid Chess Champion. Originally from Nizhny Tagil, Murzin lives in Khimki. Murzin won the 2024 World Rapid Chess Championship...

In chess, the threefold repetition rule states that a player may claim a draw if the same position occurs three times during the game. The rule is also...

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. As of July 2025,[update] he is Azerbaijan's highest rated chess player. His personal best rating of...

Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairy chess piece...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the...

Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-system chess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship. The players who qualified...

The 42nd Chess Olympiad (Azerbaijani: 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des...

Three-player chess (also known as three-handed, three-man, or three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. Many...

American chess player, trainer and author known for being the trainer of his stepson Hikaru Nakamura, an American grandmaster. Weeramantry became a chess master...

Irene Kharisma Sukandar (born 7 April 1992) is an Indonesian chess player and a two-time Asian women's champion. She is the first female player from Indonesia...

The Global Chess League 2025, known for sponsorship reasons as the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025, was the third season of the annual over-the-board...

Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com. It was...

play the board game. Playing online chess became a passion for him. He was selected as a player for Chess.com's BlitzChamp tournament, a rapid tournament...

Sachdev | Chess Celebrities". Chess.com. "The evolution of women's chess in India". ChessBase India. 8 March 2021. "Tania sachdev wins Asian chess title"...

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, closed chess tournament hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It was first held...

The Las Vegas Freestyle Chess Grand Slam was a Chess960 tournament that took place in Las Vegas, United States from 16 July to 20 July 2025. It was the...

1983 novel by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created...

The 43rd Chess Olympiad (Georgian: 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, 43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024 was the 86th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee from 13–28 January 2024. The competition...

exclusive contract with YouTube expired. In April 2025, Lupo competed in the Chess.com $100,000 prize pool PogChamps tournament alongside other content creators...

李超; pinyin: Lǐ Chāo; born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013. In 2007, he became China's 23rd...

Samuel L. Shankland (born October 1, 1991) is an American chess grandmaster. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018. Shankland was California State Champion...

[tejˈmuɾ boˈɾis oɣˈlu ɾæˈdʒæbof]; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. A former child prodigy, he earned the title of Grandmaster...

The Gashimov Memorial is a chess supertournament played in Azerbaijan in memory of Vugar Gashimov (24th July 1986– 11th January 2014). The Gashimov Memorial...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2026 was the 88th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 16 January to 1 February...

2025. "Josephite Chess Club - Chess Club". Chess.com. Retrieved 25 June 2025. "Chess Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman dies at 50". bdnews24.com. 5 July 2024. Retrieved...

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak Elo rating...

cities from around the world, moved to the website chess.com, and renamed the Professional Rapid Online Chess League. At its peak, the USCL comprised twenty...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...

Grand Chess Tour 2015 was the inaugural edition of Grand Chess Tour, an annual circuit of chess tournaments. It was won by incumbent World Chess Champion...

Standings – FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022". Retrieved 2022-11-25. Hansen (chansen64), Carsten. "China Wins World Team Chess Championship". Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25...

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...

January 2002) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. Yakubboev was born in Tashkent on 23 January 2002. He has won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship three times;...

Rapid Chess Championship tournament. The tournament was held in Doha, Qatar, along with Women's World Rapid Chess Championship 2025, World Blitz Chess Championship...

The Cairns Cup is an annual round robin chess tournament, founded in 2019, for the leading women's chess players held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United...

The Week in Chess (TWIC) is a chess news web site. It was founded in 1994 and is based in the United Kingdom. TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since...

is a Latvian chess grandmaster. He is a five-time Latvian champion, one of the leading Latvian chess players, an FIDE-accredited chess trainer, author...

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster and the reigning nine-time British Chess Champion. His highest ranking is world No. 4,...

The American Cup is an annual invitational double-elimination chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The tournament is 8 player double...

with Chess.com, Lufthansa Airlines and other bodies. Chess in Africa Nigeria Chess Federation Tunde Onakoya Evelyn, Watta (10 October 2021). "How chess became...

The Grand Chess Tour 2019 was a series of chess tournaments, held in from 6 May to 10 December 2019. It was the fifth edition of Grand Chess Tour. The...

The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double...

The London System is an opening system in chess characterized by the moves (with any first move by Black): 1. d4 2. Bf4 In addition to these moves, in...

Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to...

The 1985 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in Moscow, Soviet Union from September 3 to November 9, 1985. Kasparov...

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...

1990) is a Croatian chess grandmaster. He earned his IM title in 2007, and his GM title in 2008. He won the Under-18 European Youth Chess Championship in...

World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion...

Maroroa Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess grandmaster and three-time British Chess Champion. He was awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE...

Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess. Woody Allen The...

Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived...

The Women's Chess World Cup 2025 was a 107-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Batumi, Georgia from 5 July to 29 July 2025. It...

Master of chess. He founded the New York Masters and the U.S. Chess League and is a former member of the executive board of the United States Chess Federation...

The World Rapid and Blitz Team Chess Championships 2025 was a team chess tournament organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to determine...

Champions Chess Tour 2021, known for sponsorship reasons as the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was a 10-month long series of 10 online chess tournaments...

Enigma is a Spanish chess player, content creator, and author of unknown identity. He has played matches against important figures in chess such as Garry Kasparov...

Tingjie (Chinese: 雷挺婕; pinyin: Léi Tǐngjié, born 3 March 1997) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. She was the 2021 Women's Grand...

Nigerian chess player and coach, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest marathon chess game. As the founder and convener of Chess in Slums...

Handicaps (or odds) in chess are setup or rule modifications which enable a weaker player to have a higher chance of winning against a stronger one. There...

determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks...

(Ukrainian: Кірілл Сергійович Шевченко; born 22 September 2002) is a Ukrainian chess player who later played for Romania. He was awarded the title International...

The Hong Kong China Chess Federation (HKCF; Chinese: 香港國際象棋總會) is the governing body for chess in Hong Kong. Founded in 1960, the HKCF joined FIDE in 1961...

The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was...

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...

Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until...

artificial intelligence research company DeepMind to master the games of chess, shogi and go. This algorithm uses an approach similar to AlphaGo Zero....

The Stonewall Attack is a chess opening system characterized by White playing pawns to d4 and e3, bishop to d3, knight to d2, and then completing the...

is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and four-time Norwegian Chess Champion. He was the main second for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2013...

March 24, 2023. "BlitzChamps III". Chess.com. May 23, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2025. "BlitzChamps IV". Chess.com. June 16, 2025. Retrieved June 16, 2025...

(Russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Алексеенко; born 22 June 1997) is a Russian-born chess grandmaster who currently plays for Austria. Alekseenko was born in Vyborg...

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...

a Russian chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2014. Artemiev is the 2019 European Chess Champion. He...

The Candidates Tournament 2016 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament, held in Moscow, Russia, from 11 to 30 March 2016. The winner,...

This list of chess players is ordered by their peak FIDE rating, an implementation of the Elo rating introduced by FIDE in 1971. The cut-off value is...

1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...

Grenke Freestyle Chess Open is an annual open Chess960 tournament. It is held in Karlsruhe, Germany, concurrently with the Grenke Chess Open as part of...

ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 "Records in chess". Chess.com. 14 April 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2013. International Correspondence Chess Federation player details....

Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster. The ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969, he was nicknamed "Iron Tigran"...

Scholastic chess in the United States has progressively grown in recent years, evidenced by the increasing membership numbers of school-aged children...

Grand Chess Tour 2016 was a second edition of Grand Chess Tour, a series of chess tournaments, that took place from June to December 2016. It consisted...

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the...

Chess.com. Retrieved September 5, 2022. Doggers, Peter (October 24, 2020). "From Igors Rausis To Isa Kasimi: Interview With A Chess Cheater". Chess.com...

The London Chess Classic is a chess festival held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London. The flagship event is a strong invitational...

The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run online chess platform. When the original Internet Chess Server (ICS) was commercialized and rebranded...

(born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022...

including Chess.com and SNK, as part of the tournament’s commercial and competitive expansion. In November 2025, MOONTON announced the first Magic Chess: Go...

Ediz Gürel (born 5 December 2008) is a Turkish chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2024. Gürel became the youngest ever Turkish...

Astronomical chess or Astrological chess is a game for seven players from the book Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games), written under king Alfonso X the...

Sokolov (Cyrillic: Иван Соколов; born 13 June 1968) is a Bosnian-Dutch chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE...

The World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO) is a governing body of the sport chessboxing. The WCBO was founded by Iepe Rubingh, founder of the sport, in...

Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Born...

The women's event at the 45th Chess Olympiad was from 11 to 22 September 2024. It was contested by a record number of 183 teams, representing 181 nations...

Ray Robson (born October 25, 1994) is an American chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title in 2010, at the time the youngest American player...

August 8, 1986, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian chess player and co-founder of modern-chess.com. G. Petar Arnaudov received the International Master...

born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018). He won the...

1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Koneru is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002...

that Quality Chess bought New in Chess and Popular Chess. The New in Chess website says that Quality, Everyman/Popular and New in Chess merged, and the...

1997) is a German chess grandmaster. He won the European Individual Chess Championship in 2022 and in 2025. Blübaum began playing chess at the age of six...

have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess. Chess gained popularity amongst Jews in the...

November 29, 1999) is an American chess grandmaster. He is also a popular streamer, known online for his speed chess skills especially in bullet (one minute)...

Jhr. Jorden van Foreest (born 30 April 1999) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2016 and 2025, and also the Tata Steel...

A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies...

The Judit Polgár's Global Chess Festival is an annual one-day festival celebrating the diversity of chess, held in Budapest, Hungary. The festival started...

best tie-break". Chess News. ChessBase. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2019. "Azerbaijan Chess Championship". s3.chess-results.com. Chess-Results. Retrieved...

Chess Championship Asian Youth Chess Championship "Asian Chess Federation". Chess.com. Facebook page Checkmate.live - Official ACF online speed chess...

Chithambaram Veerappan (born 11 September 1999) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He won the Indian chess championships twice, in 2018 and 2019. Aravindh Chithambaram...

In chess, a decoy is a tactic that lures an enemy man off its square and away from its defensive role. Typically this means away from a square on which...

by chess players on stream. The variant is also common in matches featuring celebrities or figures popular outside of the chess world. Chess.com and...

Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...

Петро́в; February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. Petrov was born in Biserovo (now part of Opochka...

The Chess Federation of Russia (Russian: Федерация шахмат России, romanized: Federatsiya shakhmat Rossiyi), known until 2018 as the Russian Chess Federation...

A chess opening book is a book on chess openings. This is by far the most common type of literature on chess. These books describe many major lines, like...

The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body of chess. Three different formats have been used: In 2000...

Announces Mogul Chessboxing Championship, Hambleton Vs. Trent Headlines". Chess.com. Rodgers, Jack (December 12, 2022). "Hambleton Scores TKO Over Trent,...

Chess has been recorded as played in Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, during which a chess club was established in Melbourne. The...

Adhiban Baskaran (born 15 August 1992) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was the 2008 World Under-16 Champion and the 2009 Indian champion. He is currently...

2017". Chess-Results.com. "23rd EUROPEAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2013 - GIRLS U12". Chess-Results.com. "World Youth Chess Championships 2018". Chess-Results...

November 1980) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the Russian team that won gold at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship. Born in Ivanovo...

[maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde...

(Chinese: 熊奕韬; pinyin: Xióng Yìtāo; born October 30, 2000) is an American chess grandmaster. He earned the Grandmaster title in September 2015 at the age...

States) is an American chess player from San Diego, California. Liu first earned distinction by winning the 2005 U.S. Under 16 Chess Championship, and with...

The 2024 edition of the United States Chess Championship took place at the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri from 10 October to 24 October...

A chess database is a database of chess games. Chess Assistant Chess Informant Expert Chess opening book (computers) Chess.com chess24 ChessBase Lichess...

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another...

10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Olympiads. He acted as a second...

Mike (January 4, 2019). "Can You Name the 1st Chess Player on the Cover of Sports Illustrated?". Chess.com. Retrieved July 5, 2019. Pedersen, Erik (July...

The women's event at the 44th Chess Olympiad was held from 29 July to 9 August 2022. It was contested by a record number of 162 teams, representing 160...

the game of chess, was an international team chess event that took place in Tromsø, Norway, between 1–14 August 2014. The organiser was Chess Olympiad Tromsø...

is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Slovenia. He won the European Rapid and Chess960 championships in 2024. He competed in the Chess World Cup in...

Wang Yue (Chinese: 王玥; pinyin: Wáng Yuè; born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess player. In 2004, he became China's 18th grandmaster at the age of 17. He...

Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004 and is the youngest holder...

often used as promotional merchandise in marketing. The chess term novelty is used for a move in chess which has never been played before in a recorded game...

Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 was a chess tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2022. It was an 11-round...

nicknamed as Buddy Pranav, is an Indian chess grandmaster and the 2025 World Junior Chess Champion. Pranav began playing chess at the age of 6, and had several...

Ikaros Chess Festival 2003 Olomouc Chess Summer 2011 Szymanski Wins Chess.com's 35,000 Player Daily Championship "2023 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship"...

for recreation. Chess in early literature Lewis chessmen Chess in Armenia Chess in Spain "The Little Chess Village, Part I". Chess.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14...

an Azerbaijani chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) through the International Chess Federation (FIDE)...

The 2023 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by the defending champion...

Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman (born September 23, 1989) is an American chess grandmaster. He won the 2005 World Under-16 Championship in Belfort with a score...

ratings.fide.com. "The chess games of Mark Plotkin". www.chessgames.com. Rosner, Cecil (July 22, 2022). "Originally set for Moscow, Chess Olympiad now...

Dorsa Derakhshani (Persian: درسا درخشانی; born 1998) is an Iranian-American chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master...

Ever". Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-01-16. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - FIDE World Junior Chess Championship "México 2023" OPEN". chess-results...

Chess in Alaska refers to competitive chess played within the state of Alaska. As of March 2026, Alaska only has 118 active players registered with the...

Infinite chess is any variation of the game of chess played on an unbounded chessboard. Versions of infinite chess have been introduced independently...

SuperPogChamps 2025 is a chess tournament from December 2 to December 5 hosted by Chess.com. Is it the first SuperPogChamps and, as per chess.com, includes the strongest...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020 was the 82nd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee from 10–26 January 2020. The...

The Boylston Chess Club is a chess club based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded on August 27, 1919, at the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, it is one...

Grand Chess Tour 2017 was a circuit of chess tournaments, which was the third edition of Grand Chess Tour. It took place from June 21 to December 12, 2017...

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel is a 2020 chess variant video game developed by Conor Petersen at American studio Thunkspace, released for Microsoft...

Houdini is a UCI chess engine developed by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart. It is a derivative of open-source engines IPPOLIT/RobboLito, Stockfish,...

"GM Supi vs GM Carlsen". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. "Announcing The Chess.com Immortal Game". Chess.com. Archived from the original...

Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of International Master (IM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship...

James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was an Irish-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen...

Ethan Pang (born 20 March 2015) is an English chess player. He began playing chess at the age of 5 during COVID lockdowns. At the age of 7, he was chosen...

1987) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005. Tomashevsky is a two-time Russian Chess Champion (2015, 2019)...

a chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan, played blindfold chess in a simultaneous exhibition against 48 opponents at the same time. In blindfold chess, players...

The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is an open communication protocol that enables chess engines to communicate with user interfaces. In November 2000...

arrondissement of Paris) is a French chess player holding the title of International Master. He is also a chess content creator, online club organizer...

The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000...

International Master chess player and commentator. Trent has host-commentated for major FIDE tournaments, including the World Chess Championship Finals...

Crown Affair". Chess.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2017. "Zeissl-Walthoffen". chessgames.com. Archived from the...

born 30 August 1985[citation needed]) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013. Ushenina...

1987) is a Ukrainian chess player and Grandmaster (2008). He is also a certified chess coach and the founder of the Remote Chess Academy, an online platform...

Candidate Master by the International Chess Federation. She reported on chess for American Chess Magazine, Chess Life, and SportsCenter. Quercia was born...

ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and five time Georgian women's chess champion. In 2012, she won the Group E (women's...

The open event at the 44th Chess Olympiad was held from 29 July to 9 August 2022. It was contested by a record number of 188 teams, representing 186 nations...

20-09-2010. World Youth Chess Championship - U 18 Girls. chess-results.com. World University Chess Championship 2012 - Women. chess-results.com. "Snowdrops Versus...

2022. Chess.com 2023b. ChessBase 2022. Reuters 2022. Chess.com 2024. ChessBase 2024. ChessBase 2025b. WorldChess 2026a. RBCUkraine 2026. ChessBase 2026...

Wars 2, Splatoon 2, Pokémon Showdown, Online-go.com, Free Internet Chess Server, Lichess, Chess.com, and Tetr.io. The Ratings Deviation (RD) measures...

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...

Opening, also known as the Orangutan and the Polish Opening, is an uncommon chess opening that begins with the move: 1. b4 According to various databases...

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...

Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...

The Fishing Pole is a chess opening trap most common in the Ruy Lopez (especially in the Berlin Defence and Exchange Variation); however, the trap can...

with the United States Chess Federation. The current USCF Florida state affiliate is the Florida Chess Association. The Florida Chess Association was established...

(Russian: Па́вел Влади́мирович Трегу́бов; born 21 December 1971) is a Russian chess player who represents France. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE...

2023-04-07. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – World Rapid Chess Championship 2021 – Open". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2021-12-27. "Chess-Results...

romanized: Aleksandr Sergéevich Morozévich; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Morozevich...

quarterfinals. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championship 2017". chess-results.com. Retrieved 15 September 2019. "Chess-Results...

David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002, he is a 14-time national champion (in...

Chess in Utah refers to competitive chess played within the state of Utah. As of January 2025, Utah has 646 active players registered with the United...

chess federation. Retrieved 5 June 2021. "Gunay Mammadzada". chess.com. World Chess federation. "Parham Maghsoodloo". chess.com. World Chess Federation....

Chess has a deep-rooted history in India, widely believed to have originated from the game of chaturanga during the Gupta Empire in circa 6th century...

Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...

In chess, a blunder is a critically bad mistake that severely worsens the player's position by allowing a loss of material, checkmate, or anything similar...

(Kazakh: Жансая Даниярқызы Әбдімәлік; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM) since 2021. She is the first...

consultant for Chess.com for the development of the chess engine Dragon by Komodo Chess. He has written that a variant of Capablanca chess – Grand Chess "is an...

In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks their opponent and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected...

Syrian-American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author...

annual chess tournament held in the Longgang District of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. In 2021, an online edition was held on Chess.com due to...

The Grand Chess Tour 2024 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the ninth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of five tournaments with...

Awonder Liang (born April 9, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy in his youth, he was the third-youngest American to qualify for the...

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World...

Opening, is an uncommon chess opening for White beginning with the move: 1. a4 It is named after Preston Ware, a U.S. chess player who often played uncommon...

The Grand Chess Tour 2022 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the seventh edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of five tournaments with...

The World Rapid Team Chess Championship 2023 was a team chess tournament organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to determine the world...

(German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'), also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk (Hungarian: A Török), was a chess-playing machine first...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3D chess) refers to a family of chess variants that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells...

(Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster who has represented England since 2023. He changed federations...

Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion (2012 and 2023), has won the Women's European Individual Chess Championship...

In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under immediate threat of capture on the very next turn. A king so...

section. Urschel competes in competitive online chess on Chess.com, and he has commentated for Chess.com's BlitzChamps event, a rapid tournament for NFL...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2013 was the 75th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Previously known as the Corus Chess Tournament, it was renamed...

Robin van Kampen (born 14 November 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. At the age of 14, he won the Dutch U20 Championship. He achieved his grandmaster...

chess champs". Viet Nam News. 2006-11-16. Retrieved 9 November 2015. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open". chess-results...

Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion. Topalov became FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship...

The women's event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), was held from 2–13 September 2016 in Baku...

طباطبایی; born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He has represented Iran in three Chess Olympiads (2018, 2022 and 2024). Born in 2001...

Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Algebraic notation is the standard method...

biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon. Each series consisted of three to six chess tournaments, which...

Сарана, born 26 January 2000) is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Serbia. He won the European Individual Chess Championship in 2023. His father is Ukrainian...

1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century...

is an American chess grandmaster. Brown was introduced to chess in the second grade. In July 2015, he won the Southern California Chess Championship. In...

Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was a Polish-American record company executive and the founder of Chess Records...

April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s...

Chinese chess grandmaster. He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years, 11 months and 23 days old in 2009. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion...

Polish chess grandmaster. He is a six-time Polish champion. Wojtaszek has acted as Viswanathan Anand's second, assisting the former world chess champion...

women's world blitz champion) in round 1 of the Women's Speed Chess Championship hosted by Chess.com. The match was a combination blitz & bullet format with...

The Dubai Open Chess Tournament, also known as the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Cup, is an annual open chess tournament in Dubai, UAE that is usually held...

is a chess opening variation of the Caro–Kann Defence beginning with the moves: 1. e4 c6 2. Bc4 Though historically considered an irregular chess opening...

a German chess Grandmaster (GM), 40th woman in history to earn the title of grandmaster. She has been among the strongest German female chess players since...

(born August 26, 1987) is a German-Uruguayan chess grandmaster who represents Uruguay. Due to the German Chess Federation's handling of his conflict with...

The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens...

commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Svidler has competed in three World...

York State Chess Association. The history of chess in New York reflects the broader development of organized chess in the United States. As chess clubs, tournaments...

Andreas Dückstein (2 August 1927 – 28 August 2024) was an Austrian chess master. He was awarded the International Master title in 1956 and Honorary Grandmaster...

measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games. People who played a chess game with Morphy have...

the NFL Blitz series Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted from three to five minutes (as noted chess.com) but loosely defined as from...

an English chess player, holding both International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) titles. She is five-time British Women's Chess Champion: 1986...

Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days...

Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The...

Putin", Chess.com, 3 March 2022 "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 38th Int. Chess Festival Città di Arco Open A". chess-results.com. Retrieved...

The Grand Chess Tour 2023 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the eighth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of five tournaments with...

Youth Chess Championships 2010 Open Under 18. chess-results.com. European Youth Chess Championship Albena 2011 - Boys Under 18. chess-results.com. "Sigeman:...

online chess tournament that ran from 18 April to 3 May 2020 as the first round of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. In addition to the world chess champion...

Emil Sutovsky chess games at 365Chess.com Emil Sutovsky player profile at Chess.com Emil Sutovsky at Supreme-Chess.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-11)...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 was the 83rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands from 15–31 January...

The 2020 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by Ju Wenjun (world champion...

com. Retrieved 17 November 2023. "Gujarat the first and only state government in India to start chess programs in Schools - Chess Forums - Chess.com"...

chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was Belarusian Chess Champion in 2016. Born in 1994, Kovalev won the Belarusian Junior Chess...

Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas. Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation...

Brewington Hardaway (born April 22, 2009) is an American chess grandmaster. He is the first U.S.-born African-American grandmaster. Hardaway was born...

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...

Gibyatovich Nezhmetdinov (15 December 1912 – 3 June 1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, International Master and checkers player. Although he never...

Glek (Russian: Игорь Владимирович Глек; born 7 November 1961) is a Russian chess player, trainer, writer and theorist. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster...

World Chess Plc (LSE:CHSS) (formerly Agon Limited) is a global chess organization and media company, incorporated in the United Kingdom. It is best known...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 was the 74th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Previously known as the Corus Chess Tournament, it was renamed...

Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double-round-robin tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2021, played in Yekaterinburg...

Many of the 1,327 named chess openings and variants listed by The Oxford Companion to Chess are named for geographic places. This article uses algebraic...

Aram Hakobyan is an Armenian chess grandmaster. Hakobyan began playing chess at the age of 6. He has won the Armenian Youth Championship for the U10,...

A World Chess Championship was played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal in Moscow from March 15 to May 7, 1960. Botvinnik was the reigning champion...

Bobby Fischer—widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time—his first chess set and taught him how to play the game. Joan Fischer...

David Sadler (born 15 May 1974) is an English chess grandmaster, chess writer and two-time British Chess Champion. Sadler has a French mother, speaks French...

Bogdan-Daniel Deac (born 8 October 2001) is a Romanian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 7 months...