The 2025 FIDE World Cup is over, with a month of frenetic chess action whittling 206 players down to just one, GM Javokhir Sindarov. The 19-year-old star is both the youngest and lowest-seeded player ever to win the World Cup, earning him a hero's...
GM Denis Lazavik, GM Magnus Carlsen, and IM Renato Terry won the third week of 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 27. The first two tournaments were fought mainly between Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, while the third event p...
Top seed GM Alireza Firouzja profited from a big blunder by GM Luke McShane to score a win with the black pieces in round two of the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament. Firouzja now shares the lead with GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who used 34(!...
An exciting first round at the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament saw all games ending in draws, but not without quite a bit of fighting chess on the boards. GM Sam Shankland was fortunate to get away with a draw against GM Alireza Firou...
Nineteen-year-old Uzbek GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2025 FIDE World Cup and the $120,000 top prize after beating GM Wei Yi 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks. Sindarov missed a one-move chance to win with White in the first tiebreak game, but he made no mi...
GM Pranesh M won a wild game in a wild final round of a wild Titled Tuesday on November 25 to take home first place ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen on tiebreaks. With five players tied for first after 10 rounds, Pranesh and Carlsen were both fighting j...
Note that this event has been renamed to Chess.com Open on February 25, 2026. We're excited to announce the return of the Chess.com Global Championship (CGC), starting on March 14, 2026! With a whopping $250,000 prize fund and up to three spots ...
GM Andrey Esipenko has snatched the final spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after beating GM Nodirbek Yakubboev 2-0 to take third place in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Yakubboev had to win on demand, but blundered into a crushing line where ...
It wasn't easy, but the St. Louis University (SLU) chess team won the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) championship, defeating the University of Texas, Dallas, 8.5-7.5 in a tense match. SLU also won the championship in the Spring 2025 season, jo...
GM Andrey Esipenko recovered from his heartbreaking blunder the day before to beat GM Nodirbek Yakubboev. He now leads the battle for both third place in the 2025 FIDE World Cup and the final spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. In the tit...
GM Andrey Esipenko was on course to qualify for the 2025 FIDE World Cup Final and the Candidates but first missed a win and then blundered a whole rook in the next move against GM Wei Yi. The Chinese star will face GM Javokhir Sindarov, after the ...
Turkey's prodigious GM Ediz Gurel won his second Bullet Brawl of the month on Saturday after posting a 22-game unbeaten streak and staving off a late challenge from GM Nihal Sarin. Gurel scored 157 points, three more than the Indian super-GM, and ...
The Semifinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup will be decided in tiebreaks after the second classical games both ended in draws. GM Andrey Esipenko tried to massage a risk-free edge against GM Wei Yi's Petroff, while GM Javokhir Sindarov took an early...
GM Denis Lazavik has booked his spot in the Semifinals of the 2025 Speed Chess Championship and will play GM Magnus Carlsen live in London after defeating GM Hans Niemann 15.5-9.5 on Friday. Lazavik won 11 games and lost only five against Niemann,...
It took tiebreaks to decide a winner in Freestyle Friday on November 21, with GM Pranesh M squeaking by GM Magnus Carlsen to claim his second Freestyle Friday in as many months. Carlsen was the last perfect player in the field of 120, reac...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Renato Terry won the second week of 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 20. GM Magnus Carlsen almost secured his first 3 0 Thursday victory in the first session, but a final-round...
GM Wei Yi found a brilliant sacrificial line to survive against GM Andrey Esipenko in what GM David Howell called "one of the most fun draws I’ve seen throughout the whole 2025 FIDE World Cup so far." The other semifinal game was also drawn,...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his Speed Chess Championship 2025 quarterfinal match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 19-9 to book his ticket to the Live Finals in London. There, he will face GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Semifinals. The last quarterfinal matc...
GMs Wei Yi, Javokhir Sindarov, and Andrey Esipenko will join GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in the 2025 FIDE World Cup Semifinals after winning their quarterfinal matches in tiebreaks. Respectively, they defeated GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Jose Martinez, and Sam ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura began Titled Tuesday on November 18 with 10/10 to lock up first place with a round to spare. He was held to a draw in the last round by GM Jeffery Xiong, but Nakamura's dominant 10.5/11 score—nearly accomplishing the same ...
Three matches go to tiebreaks after four draws in game two of the Quarterfinals in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. One match did end, with GM Nodirbek Yakubboev advancing to the Semifinals after holding a draw against GM Alexander Donchenko, making good ...
The higher seeds dominated in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Playoffs. SRM Institute of Science and Technology handled Texas Tech 11-5, while the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) moved past the ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has booked his ticket for the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Semifinals in London after a nail-biting match against GM Wesley So that went down to the wire. Nakamura built up four and three-point leads, but So twice hit back with...
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won the only decisive game in game one of the Quarterfinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, against GM Alexander Donchenko. A draw away from reaching the Semifinals, the Uzbek number-three also joins the (unofficial) 2700-club wi...
