GM Magnus Carlsen has retained his Esports World Cup title after a dominant victory over GM Denis Lazavik. Carlsen won both sets 3-1, with two wins in each, and ended his Paris run without losing a single game. Carlsen takes $250,000, Lazavik $190...
GM Jeffery Xiong mounted a successful title defense and won the $400 first prize in the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday after winning a tight race to the finish line. Xiong posted a score of 162 points and eclipsed IM Renato Terry and GM Nihal...
GM Wesley So leads the 2026 Sinquefield Cup after round five on Friday, after making a quick draw with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had a winning position against GM Jorden van Foreest and could have caught the leader, b...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a 2.5-0.5 victory over GM Nihal Sarin and then won a 4-1 thriller against GM Alireza Firouzja to reach the Final of the 2026 Esports World Cup. Carlsen will face off against 19-year-old GM Denis Lazavik, who pounced o...
For the second week in a row, GM Pranesh M posted the best result of any player in 3 0 Thursday. He scored 9.5 points to win the second tournament of the day. GMs Alexey Sarana and Jeffery Xiong each scored nine points to win the first and third t...
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GM Wesley So continues to lead after round four of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup on Thursday. There was one decisive game, where GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu gave GM Jorden van Foreest his third loss. Praggnanandhaa is now half a point behind the leade...
19-year-old GM Denis Lazavik pulled off the day's biggest upset to defeat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and book a 2026 Esports World Cup quarterfinal against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. He's joined by GM Nihal Sarin, who faces GM Magnus Carlsen in a repeat...
GM Wesley So broke out to the sole lead of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup with a win, with the black pieces, over GM Fabiano Caruana. There were two more decisive games: GM Vincent Keymer bounced back from yesterday's loss with a win against GM Praggnan...
Defending Champion GM Magnus Carlsen said he was "in no shape to play chess," but he still beat GMs Andrey Esipenko and Hans Niemann 1.5-0.5 to reach Friday's Playoffs of the $1.5 million 2026 Esports World Cup. He's joined by GMs Hikaru Nakamura,...
The Kenyan chess community is mourning the loss of Hawi Kaloki, one of the country's leading chess players and a former national number one. He passed away at the age of 19, just weeks before he was due to make his Olympiad debut. The sad news wa...
Round two of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup featured wins on four out of five boards, with the white pieces scoring every point. GM Levon Aronian came back from the dead to beat GM Vincent Keymer, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Sam Sevian in a compli...
GM Shreyas Royal became the youngest British Champion in history at 17, while 11-year-old FM Bodhana Sivanandan broke the age record for the British Women’s title. Fellow prodigy FM Supratit Banerjee, 12, also completed his third IM norm. B...
As the main chess event at the Esports World Cup began in Paris on August 11, Titled Tuesday continued apace. FM Artin Ashraf, who plays most weeks and has recorded multiple top-five finishes before, was the victor outright on 10/11 points. Reca...
GMs Wei Yi (Team Nemesis) and Andrey Esipenko (Virtus.pro) are through to tomorrow's 16-player Group Stage of the $1.5 million 2026 Esports World Cup, where they'll take on the likes of GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Alireza Firouzja. We...
NBA star Victor Wembanyama, Wemby to his fans, loves chess almost as much as basketball. For the second straight year, Wembanyama organized a summer Hoop Gambit Festival, combining his two favorite activities. The festival was held on the outskirt...
GM Fabiano Caruana took sole lead of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup after round one on Monday after beating GM Jorden van Foreest with the white pieces. All other games ended in draws—that is, GM Javokhir Sindarov vs. GM Levon Aronian, GM Vincent ...
Indian prodigy FM Aarit Kapil has taken another major step toward the international master title, scoring his second norm with a round to spare before going on to win a round-robin tournament in Serbia ahead of three GMs and three IMs. Extraordin...
NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani are the first duo to win the Bughouse Championship twice. Their biggest rivals were 2024 champions GMs Jeffery Xiong and Awonder Liang. The super-grandmasters lost the first match, won the second encounter, but ...
GM Jeffery Xiong is off the mark in 2026 after he won August's second Bullet Brawl off the back of an explosive 10/10 start. Playing more than 70 games in the two-hour arena, Xiong accrued a score of 159 and earned the $400 first prize, leaving IM...
IM Alice Lee is the youngest ever winner of the Women's Speed Chess Championship after winning the final two bullet games to clinch an 11.5-9.5 victory over women's number-one GM Hou Yifan. The final clash couldn't have been tighter, with neither ...
WCM Modipalli Deekshitha soared from 1985 to a live rating of 2454 in four European tournaments, climbing to second in the world among girls under 20. Just over a month ago, the 14-year-old Indian from Hyderabad was rated below 2000. Now she has ...
GM Pranesh M scored a nearly perfect result in the first 3 0 Thursday on August 6. His 10.5/11 score tied the record for the most dominant run in the history of the tournament. In the second tournament of the day, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda caught GM A...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Parham Maghsoodloo, Wei Yi, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Alexander Grischuk have snatched the five spots available in the $1.5 million 2026 Esports World Cup after competing in the three-day Last Chance Qualifier in Paris. They'r...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won his maiden title and $50,000 in the 2026 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on Thursday. Though GM Javokhir Sindarov came within a half-point of catching him, Praggnanandhaa never let go of the lead in all five days of ...
