A last-round win by GM Fabiano Caruana over GM Wesley So, who had been leading, left five players on 4/6 after three rounds at the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour. Besides Caruana and So, other lea...
Head Coach GM Liem Le announced on April 30 that the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University is discontinued. It has been one of the most powerful collegiate chess programs in the United States for over a decade, ...
If 2024 was the golden year for India, with double gold in the Olympiad and GM Gukesh Dommaraju crowned world champion, 2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for Uzbekistan so far. The nation's number-one GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has already been...
Team Liquid's GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in an exhilarating Grand Final. Duda, coming from the Losers Bracket, dominated the first match 2.5-0.5, but Carlsen came back in the Match ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda will have a rematch with GM Magnus Carlsen in the Grand Final of the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs. On Saturday, the Polish star won the Losers Final 1.5-0.5 with the black pieces in a sharp Nimzo-Indian Defense against GM Den...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GMs Denis Lazavik and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, with a 3-2 score in both matches, to advance to the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs Grand Final. Just by reaching the Winners Final, however, Duda has earned one of the three q...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Denis Lazavik, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Nihal Sarin are the last ones standing in the Winners Bracket of the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs, after winning two matches on Thursday. In the Losers Bracket, the first four players were...
Luis Ignasio, aka EyeoftheTiger1204, defended his title in the second edition of the 4-Player Chess Championship. Despite starting the first game of the Knockout by finishing last, he made what commentator Jai Sandhu called "a sensational return a...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare after a draw against GM Anish Giri in round 13. More important than the €70,000 prize, he will be the next challenger to GM Gukesh Dommaraju for the world ...
GM Javokhir Sindarov is in the final stretch, with three rounds left in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. All games of round 11 ended in draws, leaving Sindarov two points ahead after holding GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu cam...
The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, after its 10th round, continues to be the GM Javokhir Sindarov show as he leads by two points. The Uzbek star scored his record-breaking sixth win against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and can now boast the most...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with 2.5 points after three rounds. Caruana won a miniature after a blunder by GM Wei Yi, and Sindarov bravely sacrificed a piece to win with the black pieces again...
All eight games were drawn in round two of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament and 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates. In the Open tournament, the standings remain unchanged with GMs Fabiano Caruana, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and Javokhir Sindaro...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 and FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2026 start this Sunday, March 29, and they are the two most important over-the-board tournaments of the year. Each of them will determine a challenger for the world champio...
Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch hosted this year's first State of Chess on Tuesday. Joined by three special guests during the four-hour broadcast, Danny discussed a wide array of topics, from the Queen of Chess documentary, to trust and s...
Sixteen-year-old IM Alice Lee is the first female player to cross the 3000 rating mark on Chess.com in any time control—whether in bullet, blitz, or rapid. On March 17, she reached a bullet rating of 3002. Lee started a 43-game s...
GMs Pranesh M and Yu Yangyi qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-In 2 on Wednesday. Pranesh advanced directly by having better tiebreaks than GM Wesley So, the only other player to finish on 7.5/9. Yu, who finished the ...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-In 1 on Monday. Nepomniachtchi won the tournament outright, while Abdusattorov finished second and secured his spot by defeating third-pla...
Sixteen-year-old IM Alice Lee is once again the champion of The Women's American Cup 2026 for the third year in a row. In the Grand Final Reset against IM Carissa Yip, Lee won the first rapid game and drew the second to secure the match. GM Wesl...
GM Wesley So won his maiden title in The American Cup 2026 on Wednesday. After winning the first game against GM Levon Aronian the previous day, he held the necessary draw in game two to secure the match. He makes $75,000 plus another $15,000 bonu...
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the next game on...
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in the Grand ...
GM Wesley So, trailing by a point against GM Fabiano Caruana in The American Cup 2026 Champions Final, needed to win on demand just to stay alive. He did just that, in an opposite-color bishop endgame, and then won the blitz playoffs to advance to...
GM Fabiano Caruana picked up a win against GM Wesley So in the first game of The American Cup 2026 Champions Final. In the Elimination Bracket, GMs Sam Sevian and Leinier Dominguez were eliminated by GMs Levon Aronian and Awonder Liang, respective...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So advance to the Champions Final of The American Cup 2026. After making draws in the classical portion, they overcame GMs Awonder Liang and Sam Sevian in blitz tiebreaks 1.5-0.5 each, respectively. In the Eliminatio...
