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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GM Alireza Firouzja has joined GMs Levon Aronian and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in leading the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after two rounds. He survived another difficult position, against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and even managed to win the 100-move marath...
GMs Levon Aronian and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu started with wins in the 2025 Sinquefield Cup to take the early lead. Aronian beat GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with the black pieces in our Game of the Day, while Praggnanandhaa won a surprisingly easy-...
IM Polina Shuvalova will take on Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun in the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after defeating IM Alice Lee 9-5. A topsy-turvy match was too close to call for the the first two sections, and midway throug...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one step closer to an unprecedented 50 Bullet Brawl titles after the speed chess titan won the event for the second week in a row and gained his 46th victory. Nakamura got off to a sensational 21.5/22 start in Saturday's ev...
Italian GM Luca Moroni has once again proven his proficiency in chess variants by defending his title in the 2025 Chess.com Spell Chess Championship on Friday. Moroni, who was the only GM to qualify for the knockout Final for the second year run...
