Global esports powerhouse Team Liquid has announced the signings of not just one, but two superstars of chess. Five-time World Champion and world number-one Magnus Carlsen and the 2018 challenger, world number-two Fabiano Caruana will represent th...
GM Sam Sevian won Freestyle Friday on February 14, scoring 9.5 points for an outright victory and becoming the first U.S. player to win a Freestyle Friday. There were 380 players in today's event, which began only hours after the conclusion of the...
GM Vincent Keymer won the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, and with it $200,000, after making a draw in his second classical game against GM Fabiano Caruana. Keymer neutralized the latter's tremendous effort with a pawn sacrifice in th...
In a surprising move, GM Hans Niemann has been given a wildcard for the next leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris, setting up a likely showdown against GM Magnus Carlsen.
The announcement was made in a press release shortly after ...
The Anichess Creator Challenge is a side event taking place alongside the Anichess x Chess.com Tournament, pitting content creators against each other on the Anichess platform.
The event will be played asynchronously from February 13 at 11 ...
GM Vincent Keymer has taken the lead in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Final after winning game one against GM Fabiano Caruana. He is a draw away from winning the $200,000 prize on Friday. In the match for third place, GM&nbs...
The 17th World Champion Ding Liren has signed with Chinese esports organization LGD Gaming, revealing for Chess.com that he intends to return to chess in 2025.
The 32-year-old is the latest star to sign with an esports team ahead of the Esports ...
GMs Vincent Keymer and Fabiano Caruana won two grueling matches and advance to the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Final. In the shorter match, Keymer ended GM Magnus Carlsen's hopes of earning the $200,000 first prize by drawing game ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Parham Maghsoodloo were your Titled Tuesday winners on February 11. Carlsen won outright on 10.5 points and Maghsoodloo also won outright, with 10 points. It was the first win of 2025 for both of them, although each also won...
French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has officially joined Team Vitality, becoming the latest chess star to sign with an esports organization ahead of the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC).
The French club, founded in 2013, has grown into one of Europe's...
GM Vincent Keymer defeated world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in game one of the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Semifinals. GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Javokhir Sindarov ended in a draw, though the Uzbek GM missed a big chance at the en...
We're excited to announce the Chess.com 3-Check Chess Championship, the second event of the 2025 Chess.com Community Championships! The event starts February 27 at 9 a.m. ET / 15:00 CET / 7:30 p.m. IST with the qualifiers and features a $2,500 pri...
GM Robby Kevlishvili top scored with 4/4 and GM Aryan Chopra made 3.5/4 as Saint Louis University moved to a perfect 3/3 with victory in week three of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL). They beat their fierce rivals from Chennai, SRM I...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, and Javokhir Sindarov are through to the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Semifinals. Carlsen won for the second time against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, as did Caruana against World Ch...
Several NFL stars, as well as GM Maurice Ashley and FM James Canty, joined Chess.com, in collaboration with NFL Legends, in the festivities before the Super Bowl on Canal Street in New Orleans this Friday, February 7. Current and former NFL p...
Are you ready to enter a world of magic and chess spells? We're excited to announce the Anichess x Chess.com Tournament, an event organized by our official partner, Anichess. Starting on February 13, anyone can enter the event for free and climb u...
The winner of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will be crowned the "Freestyle Chess Champion," 12 members of the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) decided in a meeting on Sunday evening. They also plan to form an independent players' ass...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen exploited a mistake on move three by GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov and went on to play a perfect 23-move game to take the lead in their 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam quarterfinal. There were also wins for G...
Two weeks after winning his first Bullet Brawl title in 2025, GM Andrew Tang triumphed in Saturday's event with a score of 227, scooping up the $400 first prize in the process. 16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel finished in second place on 218 points ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Javokhir Sindarov in the final round to win the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Round-Robin and get first pick of an opponent for Sunday's Quarterfinals. Big guns GMs Magnus Carlsen (who beat World Champion ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam on 4.5/5 on a day when both took down GM Magnus Carlsen. The defending champion also lost to GM Vladimir Fedoseev, but scored two wins to join the likes...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
GM Magnus Carlsen rules out any cooperation with FIDE and its current administration but insists he is not trying to take down classical chess with his new Freestyle Chess project.
The $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus will start w...
IM Justus Williams won Chess.com's inaugural 2025 NextGen Cup, an online round-robin tournament inviting 10 of the most talented players of the African diaspora. Finishing with 7.5 points after nine rounds, he won an exhilarating armageddon playof...
Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...