GM Oleksandr Bortnyk entered the Bullet Brawl ring and emerged victorious for the second week in a row on Saturday after storming home and posting a score of 161 points, pocketing the $400 first prize for the 16th time. In second place was GM Ar...
GM Pranav Venkatesh won his first Freestyle Friday of the new Freestyle Friday Championship on March 13, taking it outright with 9.5/11, as four different players have now won the first four tournaments of the new stakes (qualification for the 202...
Netflix has released the teaser for its upcoming documentary, Untold: Chess Mates, sparking widespread reactions across the chess world less than a month before its full release. The 71-second clip, released on March 10, gives a first preview of...
IM Renato Terry won a 3 0 Thursday tournament for the third week in a row, setting a new record with nine victories in the event. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk joined him, winning his third title, as did GM Benjamin Bok, winning for the first time. Th...
Chess.com returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last weekend and hosted a packed program that explored chess, AI, and the connection between mental and physical performance. The annual gathering of leading sports execut...
Sixteen-year-old IM Alice Lee is once again the champion of The Women's American Cup 2026 for the third year in a row. In the Grand Final Reset against IM Carissa Yip, Lee won the first rapid game and drew the second to secure the match. GM Wesl...
GM Wesley So won his maiden title in The American Cup 2026 on Wednesday. After winning the first game against GM Levon Aronian the previous day, he held the necessary draw in game two to secure the match. He makes $75,000 plus another $15,000 bonu...
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the next game on...
The University Of Texas At Dallas (UTD) was the top team in the Fall 2025 regular season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). However, in the playoffs, they fell just short, losing to St. Louis University (SLU) in the finals, 8.5-7.5. In the spri...
Eleven-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan has added another milestone to her rapidly growing chess career, surpassing the 2300 rating barrier for the first time to secure the FM title. The British prodigy is now rated higher at the same age as GM Jud...
GM Sina Movahed, the 15-year-old Iranian grandmaster coming off of victory in the Under-16 ChessKid Youth Championship, became the first player to score 10.5 points in a Titled Tuesday in 2026 on March 10, going to wire-to-wire to win the tourname...
GM Sina Movahed defeated GM Yagiz Erdogmus, in the 2026 ChessKid Youth Championship U16 finals. The two teenage GMs tied for first place in the A Group in the preliminary round robin tournament, before defeating the top finishers in the B group, d...
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in the Grand ...
Andrey Volgin defeated Henry Michael through the Final Reset route to win the eight-player final of the Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship 2026. Michael defeated Volgin in a fight between the two untitled players in the Winners Final of the doubl...
Argentinian prodigy IM Faustino Oro came within one victory of making chess history before losing the final round of the 2026 Aeroflot Open last week. Despite the loss, the youngster ended the tournament with a rating gain and remained positive ab...
GM Wesley So, trailing by a point against GM Fabiano Caruana in The American Cup 2026 Champions Final, needed to win on demand just to stay alive. He did just that, in an opposite-color bishop endgame, and then won the blitz playoffs to advance to...
GM Fabiano Caruana picked up a win against GM Wesley So in the first game of The American Cup 2026 Champions Final. In the Elimination Bracket, GMs Sam Sevian and Leinier Dominguez were eliminated by GMs Levon Aronian and Awonder Liang, respective...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is $400 richer and has added a 15th Bullet Brawl title to his name after coming out on top of what he described as "one of the hardest" Bullet Brawls he has won. With a score of 150 points, Bortnyk finished two points ahead of...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So advance to the Champions Final of The American Cup 2026. After making draws in the classical portion, they overcame GMs Awonder Liang and Sam Sevian in blitz tiebreaks 1.5-0.5 each, respectively. In the Eliminatio...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the first player to win the Prague Chess Festival Masters twice after an effortless draw against GM Hans Niemann in the final round was enough to win by a full point. Long-term leader GM Jorden van Foreest crashed and b...
IM Renato Terry extended his 3 0 Thursday win record to eight titles after prevailing in the second tournament with a commanding score of 9.5/11 on March 5. Adding to a growing stockpile of IM victories, Reza Mahdavi won his third title in consecu...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda scored 9.5 points and took his second-ever Freestyle Friday on March 6, after his first came more than a year ago. He finished ahead of GM Martyn Kravtsiv, IM Almas Rakhmatullaev, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished second...
Chess.com will return to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston this weekend, once again bringing chess to one of the world’s premier gatherings of sports executives, analysts, and innovators. As...
GMs Ray Robson and Abhimanyu Mishra were the first to leave The American Cup 2026 after matches in the Elimination Bracket didn't go their way. The quadragenarian GMs Levon Aronian and Leinier Dominguez won respectively and advanced, while GM...
GM Hans Niemann's first win of what he called "probably the worst tournament of my life" looked to be the highlight of the penultimate round of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters until some shocking late drama. The key games looked headed for ...
