Twenty-year-old Thalia from Chester, United Kingdom, won BBC's Chess Masters: The Endgame after beating Richie (63, Liverpool) in the eighth and final episode aired on Monday. The first episode of Chess Masters attracted just under 1.2 million vie...
GM Alireza Firouzja lost on time just when he seemed to have escaped against GM Aravindh Chithambaram and was set to be the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland going into the 18 rounds of blitz. Instead he was caught by Aravi...
PogChamps 6 is about to start! Soon, 12 celebrities will come together to compete for the title of PogChampion, a piece of the $100,000 prize fund, and bragging rights! To celebrate the sixth edition of everyone's favorite amateur tournament, Ch...
GM Andrew Tang won his 10th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after one of the quickest finishes in the event's history. A 17-game unbeaten streak at the tail end of the arena helped him eclipse GM Oleksandr Bortnyk by eight ...
The one and only GM Vasyl Ivanchuk capped off a brilliant comeback by winning the 4th Menorca Open with an unbeaten 8/9 score and an impressive 2833 performance. The 56-year-old secured his first major tournament victory since 2019, and with it, a...
GM Alireza Firouzja pounced on a blunder by GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to win the battle of the players who started day two in second place and catch GM Vladimir Fedoseev in the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland lead. GM Aravindh Chithambar...
Wildcard GM Vladimir Fedoseev is the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event on the 2025 Grand Chess Tour, after scoring 5/6 on day one. It could have been 6/6, but GM Alireza Firouzja escaped in the first r...
GM Sina Movahed, a 14-year-old chess prodigy out of Iran (whose name seems to befit a chess player), won Freestyle Friday on April 25. For the first time in a month, only nine points were needed for victory, as Movahed won out on tiebreaks ahead o...
Another path to the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC) has now been revealed. Chess players can compete at the DreamHack festival in Dallas from May 23 to 25 for four spots at the EWC Last Chance Qualifier and a share of the $20,000 prize fund.&nbs...
You may have heard that our community is, at this very moment, making history alongside world number one GM Magnus Carlsen. The Magnus vs. The World match has recently surpassed 100,000 players, making it the biggest chess game ever played. In c...
WFM Megan Paragua is a young master to watch out for. Just 12 years old, she put up a performance rating of 2506 (grandmaster strength) by round seven at the 2025 Grenke Chess Open A after a draw with GM Mikheil Kekelidze. Though she lost the last...
Indian GM Humpy Koneru has won the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix after beating IM Nurgyul Salimova in 84 moves in the final round to finish on an unbeaten 7/9. GM Zhu Jiner also won, against IM Polina Shuvalova, but missed out on first place o...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are returning for their second edition in 2025! This online blitz event will bring together the strongest prodigies of the game and offer fans a glimpse of the bright future of chess....
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the 13-year-old Turkish phenom, won his first-ever Titled Tuesday on April 22, scoring 10 points in a clean win. Later, GM Magnus Carlsen won his third consecutive late Titled Tuesday, this one coming off of a perfect 9/9 s...
Just a day ago, GM Magnus Carlsen achieved the seemingly impossible (again). This time, he won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with a perfect 9/9 score. While his stellar performance stole headlines during the five-day event, we review seven ...
GM Zhu Jiner bounced back right away to outplay IM Divya Deshmukh and regain the lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the final round. Zhu would have been the sole leader if IM Alina Kashlinskaya had converted a completely winn...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with an out-of-this-world, perfect 9/9 score. He had already won the tournament with a round to spare in round eight, but round nine was about cementing his legacy of dominance. With a...
GM Humpy Koneru is the new sole leader of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 5.5/7 after beating GM Zhu Jiner in a dramatic round-seven clash. Zhu is now joined half a point back by IM Divya Deshmukh, who won a fourth game of the event as sh...
Nigerian chess player Tunde Onakoya and NM Shawn Martinez have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon after playing continuously for an astonishing 64 hours in New York's iconic Times Square. The impress...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues his streak of perfection in the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, now with seven rounds under his belt. He won a smooth game against GM Awonder Liang before his rollercoaster game against GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who...
GM Zhu Jiner won a fourth game in six rounds of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu to retain the sole lead and climb above GM Tan Zhongyi to world number-five on the FIDE women's rating list. GM Humpy Koneru is s...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk rocketed to a second-straight Bullet Brawl victory and won the $400 first prize after outpacing 140 titled players during Saturday's event. Bortnyk's 65.5/74 gave him a score of 233, 34 points higher than the second-placed IM ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the sole lead in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open as the only player with a perfect score after five rounds. He enjoyed two smooth victories on Saturday against GM Etienne Bacrot and 53-year-old GM Victor Mikhalevski, wh...
Luis Ignacio was crowned the winner of the 2025 Chess.com 4 Player Chess Championship and will receive the $1,800 first prize after winning three out of four games in the Grand Final ahead of Hamlet Antonyan, Aswin Devendran, and Jose Bolea. ...
14 players are on a perfect score after three rounds in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. On a day of upsets, several pre-tournament favorites lost: GM Aravindh Chithambaram (against GM Maciej Klekowski), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (against Slovak I...
