GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Ian Nepomniachtchi are the last ones standing in the Winners Bracket after day one of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Playoffs. On their last lives in the Losers Bracket are eight mor...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen was held to a draw by more than 143,000 players in the Magnus vs. The World game on Chess.com, the largest online chess game ever held. The historic game ended on Tuesday after 32 moves when The World forced a ...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top 15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
Esports organizations are making a final push to add grandmasters to their teams for the second and last leg of this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT). GMs Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are among the six top grandmasters wh...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reached an unprecedented 40 Bullet Brawl titles after claiming first place in Saturday's two-hour arena with a commanding score of 288. He notched 76/80 games to win the $400 first prize ahead of the second-place finish...
GM Guha Mitrabha was crowned the Chess.com King of the Hill champion on Friday after winning the latest edition of the Community Chess Championships. Following a 12-hour qualification marathon where he competed alongside 3,500 aspirants, Mitrabha ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, his first Grand Chess Tour victory. He earns $77,667 and 10 GCT points. The path was far from smooth. He drew comfortably against GM Levon Aronian in his last classi...
Aerial Powers, WNBA Champion and co-owner of Team Liquid (who will be represented at the Esports World Cup this summer by GMs Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana), appeared with FM James Canty III and others at the Center of Science and Industry (C...
GM Anna Muzychuk has won the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks over GM Zhu Jiner, but said afterward, "it has never been so sad to win an event." Anna made a draw against GM Vaishali Rameshbabu which would have given her ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu broke into the sole lead just before the final round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. He defeated GM Wesley So from the black side of a Benko Gambit. There was one more decisive result: World Champion Gukesh...
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, a former world number-six, a candidate for the world championship, and a commentator renowned for his wit and humor, died on Monday at the age of 81. The news was confirmed by the Czech Chess Federation...
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...
