GM Magnus Carlsen scored 4.5/7 to top the Group Stage of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Weissenhaus, Germany. He got to pick his opponent in Saturday's Semifinals, choosing GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, while GM Vincent Keyme...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro nearly claimed his first victory in 3 0 Thursday on February 12. He led with nine points out of 11 games in the final minute of the tournament, but GM Matthias Bluebaum scored a come-from-behind victory in his own g...
GM Haik Martirosyan scored 10.5 points in Freestyle Friday on February 13, the most of anyone since last July. In the process, Martirosyan won the tournament—his first win ever in this event—by two whole points. IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Ale...
The 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship is taking place this weekend in Weissenhaus, Germany, with GM Magnus Carlsen topping an eight-player field featuring GMs Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Javokhir Sind...
Already a candidate for the World Championship, GM Javokhir Sindarov took steps toward the 2026 Esports World Cup as well on February 10, winning Titled Tuesday with a 10/11 score. Coming in the largest field since September (455), it was his seco...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Speed Chess Championship to earn his fifth title after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in the Final. A participant in its very first edition in 2016, Carlsen called this year's Final "probably the most fun Speed Chess ...
Current and former NFL players gathered before the Super Bowl for the second annual BlitzChamps Live tournament and festivities in San Francisco, California, on February 6. At the end of the celebration of football and chess, Will Davis, a former ...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are back for 2026! Following the same format as previous years, the event will bring together a stellar field of young talents in the Under-13 and Under-16 categories. Watch as the fu...
GM Magnus Carlsen succeeded in defending his fifth title at the 2025 Speed Chess Championship by defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 15-12 in the Final. It's his third title in consecutive years and Carlsen earned $38,888.89 for his efforts, while Firou...
In an exhibition of dynamism and speed, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his first Bullet Brawl title in five months after outpacing 154 titled players in Saturday's two-hour arena. With GM Hikaru Nakamura unavailable to defend his five-week winnin...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja are the two finalists in the 2025 Speed Chess Championship. Carlsen prevailed in a one-sided match against GM Denis Lazavik 17-9, while Firouzja pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in SCC history to rea...
The 7uice Educational Fair, held on January 31 in Boston, Massachusetts, brought leaders from seemingly unrelated fields to the 64 squares on the chessboard. The 7uice Foundation, founded by Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, partners with instit...
GM Vincent Keymer rode his 10th-round victory over GM Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Friday to a win in the tournament on February 6. Both players scored nine points but Keymer's tiebreaks put him in the lead. Keymer previously won on May 2, 2025, an...
It was a day for "M" names in 3 0 Thursday on February 5, as GMs Parham Maghsoodloo, Haik Martirosyan, and Jose Martinez took the top spots. It was Martinez's fifth victory in the tournament, Maghsoodloo's second, and Martirosyan's first. The wome...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took home Titled Tuesday on February 3, becoming the first player all year to score 10/11, allowing him to avoid tiebreaks to beat out GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Alexey Sarana on 9.5 points. The win was not only Vachier-...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored one of the best results of his career so far to win sole first place in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters, with second-placed GM Javokhir Sindarov completing the Uzbek domination. We look back at some conclusions fr...
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus was recently described by GM Magnus Carlsen as the strongest 14-year-old in the history of the game. He's demonstrated his ability in recent months, and gained more points than anyone else among the world's top-100 players i...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov called it a "dream come true" as he defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi's Evans Gambit to win the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters with 9/13. GM Javokhir Sindarov gambled to keep playoff hopes alive and ultimately beat GM Thai Da...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's historic run in the Bullet Brawl arena continued on Saturday with a fifth consecutive $400 victory, marking the first time a player has won a full month of Brawls since the event's inception. Reminiscent of the pre...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov takes a half-point lead into the final round of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters after beating GM Matthias Bluebaum while GM Javokhir Sindarov made a quick draw against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. Sindarov is the m...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has joined his compatriot GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters lead on 7/11 after winning a pawn and grinding out a win against GM Arjun Erigaisi. GM Hans Niemann joins a three-way tie half a point beh...
GM Sina Movahed won his fifth Freestyle Friday on January 30, holding at least a share of the lead in every round of the tournament to join GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Arjun Erigaisi, and Magnus Carlsen with five or more. Carlsen finis...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his first six games in the opening 3 0 Thursday tournament on January 29, bringing his Chess.com blitz rating to a record 3454. Nakamura slowed down after that and the tournament winners of the day were GMs Sina Movahed, Mag...
Queen of Chess, the Netflix documentary directed by Rory Kennedy about GM Judit Polgar's rise from child prodigy to one of the world's top players—woman or man—debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, ahead of its official ...
GM Matthias Bluebaum has crossed 2700 and moved to second place in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters after winning a wild 25-move game against GM Anish Giri. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov still leads by half a point going into the final weekend, while ...
