GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 6/7 as top-seed WR Chess won all 12 of their matches on day one of the 2025 World Blitz Team Championship, but the most memorable game was the world number-two's one loss, to 13-year-old IM Khagan Ahmad from Azerbaijan. T...
GM Andrew Tang put his shoulder back to the wheel fewer than 24 hours after winning the 2025 Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship and won his seventh Bullet Brawl of the year after a 34-game streak. Tang scored 62.5/75 and amassed 220 poin...
Going into the rest day, three players continue to lead the Cairns Cup 2025: GM Koneru Humpy, GM Harika Dronavalli, and IM Alice Lee. IM Carissa Yip won the only decisive game of round five against GM Nana Dzagnidze, after a five-hour struggl...
Almost a decade on from his viral victories against Leela Chess in ultrabullet, GM Andrew Tang has proven he is the quickest player on Chess.com for the second year in a row following a successful title defense in the 2025 Chess.com Hyperbullet Ch...
GMs Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli won in round four to catch IM Alice Lee in the lead of the Cairns Cup 2025. They defeated GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Nana Dzagnidze, respectively. GM Mariya Muzychuk also picked up her first win of ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi bounced back to score 3.5/4 and lead Team MGD1 to gold medals in the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship after a perfect four match wins on the final day. GM Levon Aronian's Hexamind took silver, while GM Viswanathan A...
A week after GM Jeffery Xiong scored the first 11/11 in Freestyle Friday history, this week's 960 event on Chess.com ended in a three-way tie on nine points. GM Denis Lazavik pulled ahead in the ninth round, but then allowed IMs Eytan Rozen and Ma...
Insurance company Symetra Financial was crowned as the champions of the 2025 North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) on Thursday after their master-laden team defeated trading firm Jane Street 2.5-1.5 in the Final. Symetra's IM Irakl...
Fifty-five-year-old GM Viswanathan Anand rolled back the years to win a brilliant game against GM Arjun Erigaisi on day two of the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships. Arjun's 0.5/4 didn't stop his Team MGD1 remaining unbeaten until th...
IM Alice Lee continues to lead the Cairns Cup 2025 after making a draw with GM Nana Dzagnidze. The one decisive result was IM Carissa Yip beating GM Nino Batsiashvili from a position she could have even lost. We saw draws in the rest: GM-elect Bib...
The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is headed for Las Vegas, and it's bringing 16 of the world's top grandmasters to the heart of the Strip. The organizers have announced more than half of the field that will compete in the fourth leg of th...
Sixteen-year-old GM Ediz Gurel took down GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave while 11-year-old IM Faustino Oro beat GM David Navara as the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships began in London. GM Arjun Erigaisi's Team MGD1 tops the standings with...
IM Alice Lee, the youngest and lowest-rated player in the Cairns Cup 2025, won again in round two and leads with a perfect score. With the black pieces, she defeated GM Mariya Muzychuk. In the other decisive game, GM Nana Dzagnidze recovered from ...
GM Hans Niemann began the early Titled Tuesday on 10/10 on his way to victory by half a point over GM Magnus Carlsen, but Carlsen would take his revenge by winning in the late tournament on 10/11. Each player defeated the other in the 10th round o...
All five games were decisive in round one of the Cairns Cup 2025. In the lead are GM Koneru Humpy, GM Harika Dronavalli, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva, and IM Alice Lee after winning, respectively, against GM Nana Dzagnidze,...
Fifteen-year-old GM Andy Woodward won the 2025 Under 16 ChessKid Youth Championship after beating 14-year-old GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus in the Final. It was payback against last year's winner, who eliminated Woodward in the 2024 Semifinals. Woodward ...
GM Magnus Carlsen’s seventh Norway Chess win was one of his most memorable yet, partly for the dramatic finale but mainly for the rivalry with World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Carlsen won their round-one clash, but in round six Gukesh beat h...
GM Hikaru Nakamura prevailed in a showdown with world number-seven GM Alireza Firouzja during Saturday's Bullet Brawl, earning himself the $400 first prize and his 41st title. Nakamura scored 70 wins, four losses, and a string of draws at the tail...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's fast rise to the highest echelons in chess continued last week in Jermuk, Armenia, where the 25-year-old Indian grandmaster edged out GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on tiebreaks to win the Stepan Avagyan Memorial. Aravindh...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his seventh Norway Chess title after escaping and then almost winning a lost position against GM Arjun Erigaisi. With seconds to spare, he took a draw, which seemed to guarantee the title as GM Fabiano Caruana was beating...
The perfect 11/11 score doesn't exis—well, it's only happened seven times in hundreds of Titled Tuesdays over several years, but in just a few months' time, Freestyle Friday has its first 11/11 performance in the record books. The mark belon...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen leads World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by half a point going into the final round of Norway Chess 2025 after both stars won their classical games in round nine. Carlsen sacrificed a pawn against GM Fabiano Caruana bu...
We're excited to announce the next edition of BlitzChamps, the viral online tournament where NFL stars go head-to-head in blitz chess. BlitzChamps IV returns on June 16, starting at 4 p.m. ET / 22:00 CEST. This year’s showdown features a $10...
GMs Levon Aronian and Alireza Firouzja are your winners for the first Titled Tuesdays in June 2025. Aronian doesn't play Titled Tuesday very often, so it is always a treat when he does; this was his first win in the event since December 2023. Firo...
A team of GM Benjamin Bok and Ronnyberger convincingly won 5-0 in the final of the Grand Chess Gala at TwitchCon EU in Rotterdam on Sunday, hosted by none other than WFM Anna Cramling.. Chess was prominently featured at the biggest event in the ...
