Dejan Joveljic, the Seattle Sounders striker, boasts a chess.com rating of 2,600, placing him in the top 0.01% of users.

The 2026 Ballon d'Or winner has taken an all-round approach to his game, using external tools such as Chess to give him that ...

Hikaru Nakamura becomes the first player to reach a 3500 blitz rating on Chess.com, opening a 100-point gap over Magnus Carlsen after an extraordinary winning run.

Magnus Carlsen tops a proposed new world chess ranking system combining classical, rapid and blitz formats, while reigning world champion Gukesh is placed 26th.

In chess, most existing rating systems accounted only for win-loss outcomes and treated ties as half a win and half a loss. They did not explicitly model the probability of a draw—even though it was ...