Draws for the leading trio of GMs Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner, and Tan Zhongyi in the penultimate round of the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix left the standings unchanged, but mean Zhu has booked a FIDE Candidates spot, while Tan miss...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the only decisive game of round seven in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. He is now in a group of four players who are a half-point behind the leaders. With draws in all the other ...
At Titled Tuesday on May 13, GM Magnus Carlsen tied for first place in both events, winning the first one on tiebreaks before GM Hans Niemann took home the second tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura, meanwhile, broke one of his own (and Chess...
The Czech-German grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, the strongest Czech-born chess player between the eras of GMs Richard Reti and David Navara, a former world number-six, a candidate for the world championship, and a commentator renowned for his wit and...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has introduced significant changes for the 2025 World Blitz Championship in Doha, Qatar, most notably, a new rule to ensure the tournament ends with a clear winner. FIDE's move, announced Tuesday, comes ...
GM Zhu Jiner's fifth win in a row, this time against GM Nana Dzagnidze, has given her a share of the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead and left co-leader GM Anna Muzychuk missing out on a FIDE Women's Candidates spot to GM Aleksandra ...
After six rounds of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, we are still far from having a frontrunner. Four players are tied in first place. In the only decisive game of the round, GM Alireza Firouzja defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to ...
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IM Faustino Oro's rise shows no signs of slowing. Now, the 11-year-old prodigy is set to face former World Champion Viswanathan Anand in a match, and potentially in a knockout event. The youngster also dazzled a national TV audience in Spain ...
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...
