Speed Chess Championship Chess.com has held the
Speed Chess Championship annually since 2016, involving a single-elimination tournament featuring some of the world's best players.
Magnus Carlsen and
Hikaru Nakamura have both won five championships.
Tournament formula The most important elements of the tournament formula: • 16-player single-elimination bracket • Matches consist of three segments: 90 minutes of 5+1, 60 minutes of 3+1, and 30 minutes of 1+1. • The player with the most cumulative points at the end of the match wins. • Games that start before the time for a segment runs out count toward the final score. • Players can resign from the match within the last 10 minutes of the 1+1 segment, with the player's win percentage being capped at 35%. • In case of equal number of points – tiebreaks: • A four-game 1+1 match. • A single bidding armageddon game with a base time of 5 minutes.
Winners of Speed Chess Championships Daily Chess Championships Tournament formula The tournament starts on January 1 and, depending on the number of participants, consists of 4 or 5 rounds. All players are divided into groups (up to 12 people), and only the winners advance to the next round. Players play in each round a maximum of 22 games simultaneously (with each opponent as White and Black), with a maximum of one day allocated for each move. It can therefore be considered a form of
correspondence chess. The winner of the Championship is the player who accumulates the most points in the final round.
Winners of Daily Chess Championships PRO Chess League Winners of PRO Chess League Titled Tuesday Titled Tuesday is an 11-round
Swiss-system blitz chess tournament held every Tuesday, where all entrants must have a
FIDE or national master title and their full legal name registered on their Chess.com account. The event started as a monthly 9 round tournament. The first edition was held on October 28, 2014 with a total prize fund of $1,000, including $500 for first place, which was won by
Baadur Jobava. It became a weekly event on April 7, 2020, permanently became 11 rounds on October 20, 2020, and on February 1, 2022, the prize fund increased from $1600 to $2500, with $1000 for first place. Two events were also to be held every week instead of one. In June 2018, Chess.com held a special version of the tournament for which the winner would go on to participate in the Isle of Man International which had a prize fund of £144,000. Iranian GM
Pouria Darini won the event. By August 28, 2024, GM
Hikaru Nakamura had the most tournament wins since October 2020 with 77, followed by GM
Magnus Carlsen with 20, and GM
Dmitry Andreikin with 17. Other super grandmaster winners include
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave,
Alexander Grischuk,
Alireza Firouzja,
Wesley So,
Ian Nepomniachtchi, and
Fabiano Caruana. Among other changes made in September 2025 was the roll-out of
Proctor, Chess.com's "fair play"
anti-cheat software. Proctor would become a requirement for all players competing in prized events. Titled Tuesday was also announced to become a qualifying pathway to the 2026
Esports World Cup, and to be partnering with chess media start-up
Take Take Take. In 2025, the
After Party and
Untitled After Party were both added to the weekly roster of Tuesday events, with untitled players now also able to compete for a cash prize. Scheduled two hours after Titled Tuesday, these would be arena-style tournaments, last for two hours and feature a
3+0 game format. Their introduction aimed to provide new opportunities for untitled players and to encourage more broadcasting of Chess.com events through live-streaming platforms. An additional $1,500 was made available for 7 titled players and
streamers, $500 for the top 3 untitled players (streaming being a pre-requisite) and $100 for the "Top Woman". This increase in funding brought the weekly prize total for all Tuesday events to $5,000. There have been 38 deathmatches, participants including the grandmasters
Hikaru Nakamura,
Dmitry Andreikin,
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave,
Lê Quang Liêm,
Wesley So,
Fabiano Caruana,
Judit Polgár and
Nigel Short.
Chess.com Computer Chess Championship In November 2017, Chess.com held an open tournament, called the
Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC, later CCC), with the ten strongest chess engines, with $2,500 in prize money. The top-two engines competed in a "Superfinal" tournament between the two finalists –
Stockfish and
Houdini. In the 20-game Superfinal, Stockfish won over Houdini with a score 10.5–9.5. Five games were decisive, with 15 ending in a draw. Of the decisive games, three games were won by Stockfish, and two by Houdini.
PogChamps Chess.com has hosted PogChamps, an amateur online tournament featuring
Twitch streamers, since 2020. The first PogChamps featured streamers including
xQcOW,
MoistCr1TiKaL,
Ludwig Ahgren, and
forsen. New participants from PogChamps 2 included
itsHafu and
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. PogChamps 3, beginning in February 2021, debuted with a wider range of Internet personalities and celebrities, with new competitors including
MrBeast,
Neekolul,
Myth,
Pokimane, actor
Rainn Wilson, and rapper
Logic.
Coaches Chess.com provides an extensive feature for connecting with professional chess coaches. Users can search for coaches at Chess.com Coaches Club based on rating, language, and availability, and view detailed profiles that include teaching styles, experience, and rates. Coaches include top players like:
José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara,
Raunak Sadhwani, and
Benjamin Bok. == See also ==