WFM Anna Cramling blundered a piece against 12-year-old Zac Chua from Canada and didn't realize until three moves later, but she shrugged off that slip-up to win the sixth episode of Kids vs. Stars 2.5-1.5. "I would rather go skydiving!" she said ...
In the spring season of the Collegiate Chess League, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) lost to St. Louis University (SLU) in the Finals, to finish in second place. This year they are looking for more and are off to a good start, winning their fi...
It's now less than a month until the $2 million 2025 FIDE World Cup begins on November 1, with a 206-player field topped by the Indian trio of World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. The event will tak...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) will discuss the possible reinstatement of Russian national teams at its General Assembly meeting in December, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has confirmed. A proposal will be on the agenda for the Gen...
Team USA beat Team India 5-0 on Saturday evening at the highly innovative Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas. In the last game of the day, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Gukesh Dommaraju, literally grabbed his opponent's king, and t...
GM Daniel Naroditsky was the deserving winner of October's first Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after he toppled 30 players with Chess.com bullet ratings over 3000 en route to a dominant victory. Naroditsky scored 55/73 overall and accumu...
In September, IM Nhat Minh To won the 2025 Duck Chess Championship. In October, he conquered another variant, winning the 2025 Seirawan Chess Championship. Minh To did it the hard way, losing his very first match, and then having to win the Grand ...
The recent decision by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change the long-debated 400-point rule for top grandmasters has sparked an outcry, with accusations of "stealing" rating points and warnings that the system is losing credibi...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals to earn $150,000, with the runner-up GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave taking the second $100,000 prize. Vachier-Lagrave won the first game, but Caruana went on a rampage to win three games in a row ...
GM Pranesh M won Freestyle Friday (his first) with a round to spare on October 3, gliding to a 9.5/10 start in the field of 116 players. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in second place with nine points after becoming the first player to finally beat...
WFM Anna Cramling is about to go around the world in four boards in the next episode of Kids vs. Stars! The popular streamer from Sweden will take on four kids from different continents in a clock simul on October 6, starting at 12 p.m. ET / 18:00...
GM Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, scored a 6-0 clean sweep in a simultaneous display as her Global Chess Festival celebrated its 11th edition. The festival, staged on September 30 in Budapest, attracted thousands of vi...
Both matches in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals enter the rapid and blitz portion with even scores. In the title match, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave squeezed for a bit but got no advantage against GM Fabiano Caruana in a rook endgame. GM Praggnanand...
Chess.com is excited to partner with Perplexity, the developer behind the cutting-edge, AI-integrated web browser Comet. The collaboration is designed to bring amazing benefits to our community, and will feature the 2025 Comet Open, a high-stakes ...
Despite the end result, game one of the title match between GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals was a true, five-hour-long struggle. Caruana reached a winning queen endgame, but it was too difficult t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's wins in state championships have taken him back to 2816, a peak he reached exactly a decade ago, but also provoked FIDE to change its rules. Elsewhere GM Anish Giri's victory in the FIDE Grand Swiss took him up to world number...
Arena Kings got a fresh new start on October 1; the new monthly version of Arena Kings continues to showcase the Chess.com streaming community as it always has, and only adds to that sense of community by allowing players to join together in a lar...
IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess, has just made chess history. Two moves into the GothamChess vs. The World match on Chess.com, he has officially broken the world record for the largest online chess match, surpassing 144,000 participant...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play the title match of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. Caruana won his match 15-13 against GM Levon Aronian, while Vachier-Lagrave won 17-11 against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. In a cruel tu...
GM Magnus Carlsen, perhaps the greatest player to ever play the game, has become a father for the first time. The five-time world champion and his wife Ella Victoria Carlsen have welcomed their first child on September 27. The joyful news was fi...
"HN" won another Titled Tuesday on September 30, but this time it was GM Hans Niemann who took home the victory, while last week's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura was runner-up this week. Only two draws kept the undefeated Niemann from a perfect score, ...
FM James Canty III is the Super Heavyweight Chessboxing World Champion after winning two chess-and-boxing bouts in the 7th World Chessboxing Championships in Loznica, Serbia. He ducked and weaved in the ring and was just too fast for his opponents...
Last season, Saint Louis University, SLU, won the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) in convincing fashion. On September 30, they began their title defense by winning their first match of the Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 just as convin...
In a round that barely lasted two hours, we saw two draws in both semifinal matches of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. The scores, in GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Levon Aronian, remain ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a change to its rating regulations that will already take effect on October 1, removing the so-called 400-point rule for players rated above 2650. The change was triggered by GM Hikaru Nakamu...
