GM Magnus Carlsen and his wife, Ella Victoria, have announced the heartwarming news that they are expecting their first child. The couple officially tied the knot in Oslo on January 4 this year. On Monday, the newlyweds shared the joyful news th...
Eighteen-year-old U.S. GM Christopher Yoo has received a provisional 60-day suspension from FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC), following a complaint from a female player who told Chess.com that she was harassed by the grandmaster d...
The Taliban government has suspended chess in Afghanistan. Currently reviewing the game over gambling concerns, the Taliban has also suspended the Afghanistan National Chess Federation (ANCF). It is far from the first time that the game of kings i...
GM Anna Muzychuk retains the sole lead in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix after making the only draw in round six, against GM Nana Dzagnidze, but wins for GM Zhu Jiner (her fourth in a row!) and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu saw them m...
The standings remain unchanged after round five of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. After a day of all draws, we still have three leaders: GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, with four players a...
The all-time leading Bullet Brawl title winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura, returned to the top of the standings on Saturday and won the $400 first prize, winning 66 games, drawing six, and losing five. Nakamura's score of 242 saw him finish ahead of fell...
If the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix ended on Saturday, GM Zhu Jiner's joint second place would give her overall victory in the Grand Prix series. In round five she scored a third win in a row, this time over GM Vaishali Rameshbabu, al...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave joined the three-way tie for first, with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after round four. He won a surprisingly one-sided game against World Champion Gukesh D...
GM Anna Muzychuk's third win in a row has given her the sole lead on 3.5/4 in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix. She's also on course to win the whole series, but GM Zhu Jiner's second win in a row puts her half a point behind the thir...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after three rounds, both winning for the first time in the tournament. Caruana toppled the previous leader, GM Alireza Firouzja, while Praggnanandhaa wo...
GM Christopher Yoo won the May 9 Freestyle Friday, scoring 10.5 points and securing outright victory with a round to spare. Only a draw in round five against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi kept Yoo from the first perfect 11/11 score in tournament history. ...
GM Anna Muzychuk is on course to qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament after winning a second game in a row to join GM Vaishali Rameshbabu in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead on 2.5/3. GM Tan Zhongyi had started the ...
Both players who lost the previous day, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, bounced back with wins in the two decisive games of round two in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Deac scored his first white win in a Grand Chess T...
Disney+ is set to debut the new miniseries Rematch in the United States on May 21. The English-language production dramatizes the historic "man vs. machine" battle from 1997 between GM Garry Kasparov and IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, and was fair...
It's the first tournament of its kind: CoachChamps, where eight coaches select will each draft four students with the goal of guiding their students to victory! We previously announced half of the coaching field and the format, but now it's time t...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Tan Zhongyi lead the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on a perfect 2/2 after beating IMs Lela Javakhishvili and Olga Badelka in round two. The most significant clash of the round, meanwhile, saw GM Anna Muzychu...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Wesley So started off with wins in round one of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Firouzja won our Game of the Day against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, where the French numbers one and two battled in the French Defens...
The first Titled Tuesdays of May went to GMs Magnus Carlsen and Javokhir Sindarov. Carlsen scored 10 points in his victory and Sindarov scored 9.5, but both needed tiebreaks, Carlsen over GM Bharath Subramaniyam and Sindarov ahead of last week's l...
10-year-old FM Roman Shogdzhiev continued his rapid rise at the Baku Open, where he secured his second International Master norm with a stellar 2514 performance in a field packed with titled players. Top seed and 2024 European Champion GM Alexan...
Two-time U.S. Chess Champion GM Alex Yermolinsky says he is “overwhelmed with emotions” at the outpouring of support from the chess community after he underwent life-saving heart surgery abroad. The legendary 67-year-old grandmaster,...
GM Tan Zhongyi bounced back from her world championship disappointment to start the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a 96-move win that hurt GM Zhu Jiner's chances of winning the series. There were also wins for GM Vaishali Rameshbab...
No, it's not Mount Everest. It is something way more challenging. We invite you to join the Chess.com King of the Hill Championship! The event will take place on May 15 and 16 and features a $2,500 prize fund. After a close contest against Chess...
Eighteen-year-old GM Christopher Yoo scored an impressive performance to win Italy's Sardinia World Chess Festival with 7.5/9 last week, but his participation in Italy has led to scrutiny from the chess community due to his domestic ban from compe...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Chess.com Classic, the last online event of this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT). The event takes place between May 18 and May 23 and will feature some of the strongest players in the world. At stake are $150,0...
Canada's youngest ever IM Aaron Mendes has won the 2025 Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship after defeating FM-elect Megan Paragua 5-3 in the final. Paragua got a late chance to play in the knockout after FM-elect Supratit Banerjee was forced to ...
