Two weeks after winning his first Bullet Brawl title in 2025, GM Andrew Tang triumphed in Saturday's event with a score of 227, scooping up the $400 first prize in the process. 16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel finished in second place on 218 points ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Javokhir Sindarov in the final round to win the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Round-Robin and get first pick of an opponent for Sunday's Quarterfinals. Big guns GMs Magnus Carlsen (who beat World Champion ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam on 4.5/5 on a day when both took down GM Magnus Carlsen. The defending champion also lost to GM Vladimir Fedoseev, but scored two wins to join the likes...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
IM Justus Williams won Chess.com's inaugural 2025 NextGen Cup, an online round-robin tournament inviting 10 of the most talented players of the African diaspora. Finishing with 7.5 points after nine rounds, he won an exhilarating armageddon playof...
Two of the chess world's hottest young stars, GMs Volodar Murzin and Arjun Erigaisi, have become two of the first players to sign with major Esports organizations ahead of the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC). Chess will make its historic debut at t...
On February 4, GM Liem Le became the fourth player ever, and the first of 2025, to post a perfect 11/11 score in Titled Tuesday. He joins GMs Hikaru Nakamura (twice), Magnus Carlsen (twice), and Jose Martinez in accomplishing the feat. GM Ale...
The finish to the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters was extraordinary, with both leaders World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu losing their final classical games. When GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov failed to win, that meant a two...
In the unforgettable round 13 of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, both leaders lost their last classical games of the tournament. GM Arjun Erigaisi played a perfect game to defeat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in 31 moves, while GM Vincent Key...
The king of Bullet Brawl, GM Hikaru Nakamura, returned to the top of Chess.com's high-speed titled arena on Saturday, claiming the $400 first prize and extending his all-time win count to 35. To reach the winning score (261), he scored 72/81 and d...
Winning his third game in a row, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated GM Alexey Sarana and now co-leads the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters with World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Gukesh nearly won and nearly lost against GM Jorden van Foreest in a c...
For much of the second-ever Freestyle Friday on January 31, it seemed that GM Magnus Carlsen would defend his victory from last week. After starting 9/9 on January 24, Carlsen started 8/8 this Friday. In the end, however, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk...
There were four decisive games in round 11 of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, three of them won by Indian grandmasters with the black pieces. The smoke has cleared, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is still in the sole lead. GM Nodir...
We're excited to announce the first leg of the 2025 Champions Chess Tour, the Chessable Masters! Starting February 16, the event will be the first of two online events on the Tour and feature a $150,000 prize fund. This year, there is more on th...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju pounced on a far from obvious mistake by GM Max Warmerdam to retain the sole lead on 7.5/10 going into the final 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters rest day. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov remains half a point behind after taking huge ris...
GM Alireza Firouzja came a ninth-round draw away from the first perfect Titled Tuesday of the year on January 28, settling for a full-point victory on 10.5 points in the third straight early field of over 900 players. In the late event, GM Denis L...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju leads his first tournament as world champion after defeating GM Leon Luke Mendonca in round nine to move to 6.5/9 in the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. He's half a point ahead of GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who made a draw agains...
Athens scored their first victory, against Virginia, in the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL), and Saint Louis scored another point against Texas to go on a perfect 2/2. While the first match was one-sided, Saint Louis staged a great comeb...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wei Yi kept alive their hopes of winning a second Tata Steel Chess Masters title with late wins with Black to move within a point of GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. Caruana pounce...
Four months after winning his fourth Bullet Brawl title, GM Andrew Tang returned to the top spot in Saturday's event, notching 76 wins and six draws. When he finished with a winning score of 287, 65 points stood between Tang and his nearest challe...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju goes into the second half of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters in the joint lead with GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu after beating GM Pentala Harikrishna in round seven. GM Max Warmerdam sco...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov was at his ruthless best as he built up a winning advantage against GM Gukesh Dommaraju in round six of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, but the world champion once more demonstrated incredible resistance to escape with ...
Welcome to Freestyle Friday! In the inaugural edition of this event, 476 players took their shot at becoming its first champion, a very auspicious sign in what is sure to become a can't-miss part of every week for players, spectators, and Freestyl...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev pounced on an endgame mistake to beat GM Fabiano Caruana in round five of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters and has now defeated the world numbers one, two, and four in the space of four months. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov caught...
