GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
Girls who start with the same age and rating as boys will continue to play chess at a similar rate and at a similar level as those boys, especially in areas where participation is more gender-balanced. A new study, published in Chance and co-funde...
We're excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Crazyhouse Chess Championship starts on November 6 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Featuring a variant where initiative is everything, get ready for...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with four points out of a possible six on day one. After losing game one against GM Magnus Carlsen, he had the best day, scoring three wins and two draws in his remain...
GM Hans Niemann demolished former World Champion Ding Liren 18-6 to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Ding's first win came in game 12, when a 10-1 scoreline had already made a comeback all but impossible. Niemann will now fac...
SuperChess, the Romanian club with an in-form world champion on top board, won the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday. Scoring an undefeated 4/5, GM Gukesh Dommaraju is back in the world's top 10. Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won t...
GM Javokhir Sindarov collected his first Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize after outpacing seven challengers on Saturday. Sindarov posted a score of 159 and eclipsed IM Yoseph Taher, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and IM Reza Mahdavi for ...
GM Fabiano Caruana and IM Carissa Yip repeated their U.S. Championship victories once again on Friday in St. Louis. Caruana was the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to win four consecutive U.S. titles, earning $67,000, while Yip has now won it ...
IM Renato Terry won Freestyle Friday on October 24 by taking his last six games, breaking a tie with GM Jules Moussard in the final round by winning head-to-head with Black. The win was Terry's second in Freestyle Friday, the first coming back in ...
GM Fabiano Caruana kept his half-point lead over GM Wesley So as both top GMs won their games in the penultimate round of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship on Thursday in St. Louis. GM Levon Aronian drew his game and is now a point behind So. By ...
With two rounds to go at the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, GM Fabiano Caruana is the sole leader thanks to a win against GM Sam Shankland on Wednesday. In the only other decisive game, GM Hans Niemann recovered from back-to-back ...
The chess world is mourning after the heartbreaking death of GM Daniel Naroditsky, a loss that has sparked an unprecedented wave of tributes from fans and top players such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Levon Aro...
A key match in the fourth week of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) saw the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) cement their place atop the league with a dominant 12-4 victory over the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). T...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday on October 21, scoring 9.5 points and winning on the tiebreak score over GM Hikaru Nakamura after Nakamura and GM Magnus Carlsen made a draw with each other in the final round. In his post-tournam...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So drew their games on Monday and are still leading the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship going into the second rest day. GM Levon Aronian, who beat GM Sam Shankland, is the only player now trailing by half a point. ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29. The news has sent shockwaves around the chess community, which is grieving the loss of one of...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the October 17 Freestyle Friday in fine fashion, scoring 10 points to clear the field by 1.5 points. It was Carlsen's first win in the event since August 15, which was also the last time anyone scored 10 points. He hadn't rea...
GM Fabiano Caruana bulldozed his pawns through GM Hans Niemann's kingside to reach a forced checkmate on Saturday in St. Louis. America's number two now leads with GM Wesley So, who put an end to GM Andy Woodward's winning ways. A very adventurous...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won $45,000 in the inaugural 2025 Comet Open, an event that concluded on Sunday, October 19. He didn't lose a single one of his six matches, finally defeating GM Denis Lazavik 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. He earns $45,000, while ...
GM Fabiano Caruana missed a huge chance to grab the sole lead at the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis on Saturday, failing to force a checkmate in nine moves against GM Wesley So. Alongside several more draws, GM Andy Woodward won his sec...
The 16-year-old Turkish prodigy and GM Ediz Gurel has moved to fifth on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after picking up his third win of 2025. Gurel scored 177 points, comprising 49 wins, six draws, and seven losses, giving him a winning ma...
GM Hans Niemann ended GM Abhimanyu Mishra's 71-game unbeaten streak to join GMs Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead after round five. So's sole lead ended with a 15-minute draw against GM Levon Aronian, and he wa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Liem Le 13.5-11.5 in the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Round of 16 on October 17. Though Nakamura dominated the first two portions of the match, it was in the bullet segment, surprisingly, that Le nearly made a heroi...
We're excited to announce our newest partner, the highly anticipated first-ever Broadway revival of the musical CHESS! To celebrate the occasion, we're launching exclusive new bots based on the characters of the show. You can now challenge Fredd...
GM Wesley So beat GM Vincent Keymer in the Speed Chess Championship 2025, winning the closest match yet in the Round of 16. He won only in overtime, after Keymer won the last bullet game on demand. So, who played during his rest day at the U.S. Ch...
