GM Daniel Naroditsky scooped up his 31st Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize on Saturday after outpacing 119 titled players for the second week in a row. An electric 15/16 start helped the 29-year-old commentator amass an unassaila...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his fourth Freestyle Friday on August 29, moving past GM Arjun Erigaisi for the second-most in the tournament's brief history, trailing only GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Nakamura who finished second this week, half a point b...
The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League (GCL) is back for its third season, again with a jaw-dropping lineup of the strongest players in the world. Now, for the first time ever, amateur and titled players alike can compete in the GCL Contenders, an ...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce GothamChess vs. The World, an exclusive Vote Chess match between IM Levy Rozman and the global chess community, starting September 30. Will the internet's most-watched chess streamer be able to outwit the collecti...
GM Wesley So has won the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, his second time winning the elite event he first won in 2016. While all the other classical games ended in draws, So won on demand against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to reach three-way blitz tiebreaks w...
WIM Yosha Iglesias had already made chess history by becoming the first transgender woman international master. Last weekend, the 37-year-old added another accomplishment by winning the French Women's Championship, as the second transgender woman ...
Are you ready to compete in one of the craziest variants ever invented? The Chess.com Duck Chess Championship is coming on September 4 and will feature a $2,500 prize fund. With the most savage tactics and a fearsome rubber duck, anything can happ...
On the day Chess.com announced several changes to Titled Tuesday, including the retirement of the late tournament, GMs Minh Le and Alexey Sarana became the last players to split the day's glory. Le was nearly perfect, scoring 10.5 points with only...
The standings at the top remain unchanged after the penultimate round of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup. GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead before the final round, after draws respectively with GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and We...
FIDE has announced that the 2025 Chess World Cup will be held in Goa, India, between October 30 and November 27, 2025. The World Cup is a biennial knockout tournament that features most of the world's top players. This year's event features 206 pa...
Get ready for a brand new era of Titled Tuesday! As recently announced, this 11-year-old institution is becoming part of the Champions Chess Tour qualification cycle for the Esports World Cup (EWC). The new Titled Tuesday season kicks off on Septe...
Round seven of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup had three decisive games. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu beat GM Alireza Firouzja to join GM Fabiano Caruana in the lead on 4.5/7. GM Wesley So, in his first win of the tournament, beat World Champion Gukesh D...
GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firouzja looked to be on the verge of winning their games, respectively, against GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round six of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, but both ended in draws...
GM Alexander Grischuk displayed his famed blitz credentials, this time combining them with Freestyle chess abilities, winning the Freestyle Friday on August 22. He started with an amazing eight victories in the first eight rounds to capture the so...
A powerful performance by GM Daniel Naroditsky in Saturday's Bullet Brawl saw the 29-year-old join GM Hikaru Nakamura as the only player to win 30 titles in Chess.com's weekly titled arena. In a field brimming with elite bullet chess exponents, ...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after, for the first time this tournament, a round of all draws. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda came closest to winning against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by finding a brilliant line but mi...
Reigning Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated Women's number-one GM Hou Yifan with a combined score of 11.5-9.5 in the all-Chinese finals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship to claim the title for the second year in a row. Hou h...
Five-time Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated IM Polina Shuvalova with a score of 17-5 in what turned out to be a one-sided semifinal of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. In the process, she beat her own WSCC record for the large...
GM Fabiano Caruana won a second game in a row, this time with Black against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to take the sole lead of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup with 3/4. All other games were drawn, leaving GM Levon Aronian and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu...
Chess will return to the global esports stage following the highly successful debut in 2025. The qualifying cycle for the 2026 Esports World Cup (EWC) will see major changes, making it bigger, better, and more competitive. The Champions Chess To...
Adult improvers, rejoice. More than 15 years since earning her first IM norm in 2010, and more than a decade after earning her third and final, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan played the "best tournament of my career" at the Budapest One Week in Hungary. She...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the only decisive game in round three of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup to knock GM Alireza Firouzja out of the lead. Caruana now leads with GM Levon Aronian, who survived miraculously and drew GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and GM Pr...
The Saint Louis Chess Club will reopen its doors in October following a major renovation and expansion, and feature a clash between none other than former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. The match is followed by a rapid event...
Women's number-one Hou Yifan is through to the final of the the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship after beating GM Kateryna Lagno 12.5-8.5. Hou powered into a three-point lead after the five-minute section, but then was caught as Lagno hit bac...
On August 19, for the second time in less than two years, GM Magnus Carlsen swept both Titled Tuesdays on a single day. Carlsen also won last week's late event, giving him three in a row overall. He won both of today's events outright, including a...
