GM Alireza Firouzja has opened up a three-point lead after beating key rivals GMs Vincent Keymer and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu with the black pieces on day two of the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia. GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac began in style with ...
GM Alireza Firouzja shrugged off his bullet-chess loss to GM Nihal Sarin to take the sole lead on day one of the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia with wins over GMs Ivan Saric and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. His 5/6 put him a point ahead of GMs Praggn...
Norway Chess 2026 and the UzChess Cup 2026 were two tournaments that shifted classical ratings for many of the world's top-15 on the July list. The most notable change was, unusually so, an 18-point drop in GM Magnus Carlsen's rating, just as he c...
GM Jose Martinez won Titled Tuesday on June 30 without much trouble, going undefeated and scoring 10/11 for his second victory in the last six weeks. No one came within even half a point, but five players scored nine points, with GM Fabiano Caruan...
Calling out all wizards and witches! The Chess.com Spell Chess Championship is the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The event takes place from July 15 to July 17 and features $2,500 in prizes. Spell Chess is what happens when ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has now been the world chess number-one on every FIDE rating list for the past 15 years, since July 2011. Although Carlsen has suffered scares—for instance, any loss to GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2018 World Championship matc...
GM Hikaru Nakamura bounced back from last week's rare defeat in emphatic fashion on Saturday, storming to victory in the latest edition of Bullet Brawl with 178 points. Nakamura finished 15 points clear of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and with this win ca...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship after pulling off what once seemed impossible. After taking down GMs Andrew Tang and Arjun Erigaisi in the Losers Bracket, he went on to win back-to-back matches against three-time and defendin...
GM Alireza Firouzja is through to the Grand Final of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship after winning an exhilarating Winners Final against GM Arjun Erigaisi 13-11, including tiebreaks, this Friday. In the Losers Bracket, three players remain. GM ...
Young Norwegian FM Havard Haug won his first 3 0 Thursday title June 25, scoring 9.5/11 in the second event of the day. The other winners were more experienced champions. GM Dmitry Andreikin took his second 3 0 Thursday title of the month, defeati...
GM Pranesh M began 9/9 and finished 10.5/11 in Freestyle Friday on June 26, his first victory of the year and fourth overall, as the first half of the Freestyle Friday Championship (FFC) came to its conclusion. FFC leader GM Pranav Venkatesh finis...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Arjun Erigaisi advanced to the Winners Final of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship on Thursday. Firouzja won a close match against GM Nihal Sarin 12.5-9.5, while Arjun blew away GM Andrew Tang 16-6. Just six players are le...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Andrew Tang, and Arjun Erigaisi won both matches on day one of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship to advance in the Winners Bracket. The Losers Bracket is full with 12 players, with the first round of elimination...
GM Jules Moussard became the latest first-time Titled Tuesday winner on June 23, taking home the tournament by a full point on a 10/11 score. Moussard is the third player to join the ranks of first-time Titled Tuesday victors in 2026, joining GMs ...
Chess will once again be a part of the world's biggest esports festival, with GM Magnus Carlsen returning to defend his title. The Esports World Cup Chess Finals will take place from August 11 to 15 with a new home in Paris, France, and feature a ...
GM Andy Woodward fought back valiantly to defeat GM Andrew Tang in the Grand Final Reset and deny him the title for the third year in a row in the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship 2026, which concluded on Friday, June 19. After losing to Tang in...
"It's like a dream!" said Dragon Chilling captain GM Ni Hua as the Chinese team added 2026 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship gold medals to their earlier victory in rapid chess. The team, led by GM Ding Liren, beat GM Hans Niemann's Endgame....
GM Hikaru Nakamura's perfect record in Bullet Brawl in 2026 has finally come to an end courtesy of an exceptional performance by the 17-year-old GM Ediz Gurel. Gurel recorded one of the all-time greatest starts with 17 consecutive wins and clinche...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back from four losses in a row to win his first eight blitz games and wasn't even the highest scorer as WR Chess cruised to victory in Pool A and then eased through to the Quarterfinals of the FIDE World Blitz Team Champi...
IM Renato Terry, GM Matthias Bluebaum, and IM Reza Mahdavi were the deserving winners of the hard-fought 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 18. The all-time leaderboard pacesetter Terry had to overcome the five-time world champion GM Magnus Carlsen ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is your Freestyle Friday winner for June 19, winning six games in a row at one point to claim the tournament outright on nine points, his second of the year and third overall. Tiebreaks separated second-place IM Reza Mahdavi ...
GM Ding Liren won in the final round as Dragon Chilling clinched the 2026 World Rapid Team Championship on tiebreaks ahead of silver medalists Team MGD1 (led by GM Arjun Erigaisi) and bronze medalists Hexamind Chess Team (GM Alireza Firouzja). Whe...
GM Ding Liren lost to GM Richard Rapport in 177 moves, but Dragon Chilling won the match, took the sole lead, and didn't relinquish it as the team remained unbeaten on day two of the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships. Team MGD1 moved...
GM Richard Rapport's Kazchess and GM Ding Liren's Dragon Chilling are the only teams on a perfect 8/8 after day one of the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships in Hong Kong. All the other favorites suffered defeat, with top-seed WR...
GM Alexey Sarana won Titled Tuesday on June 16 with a nearly perfect performance, scoring 10.5/11, with his only non-victory a draw against GM Magnus Carlsen in round eight. Carlsen, playing the full tournament for the first time in weeks, wasn't ...
