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...
GM Sam Shankland won a brilliant first game and ended the 2025 FIDE World Cup run of GM Daniil Dubov 2-0 in tiebreaks to reach the Quarterfinals. GM Andrey Esipenko also needed only two tiebreak games to overcome GM Alexey Grebnev, while GM Jose M...
GM Nihal Sarin secured his third Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after going unbeaten in his last seven games. Nihal scored two wins over GM Hikaru Nakamura, and defeated GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and IM Reza Mahdavi bef...
Second-seed GM Arjun Erigaisi is through to the Quarterfinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup after finding a beautiful finish to eliminate GM Levon Aronian. He'll play seventh-seed GM Wei Yi, who eventually punished an early mistake by GM Sam Sevian. ...
GM Magnus Carlsen overcame mid-match hiccups to overpower GM Fabiano Caruana with a 14.5-7.5 final score and reach the Semifinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2025. Starting as an overwhelming favorite, Carlsen was actively pursued by Caruana...
GMs Jose Martinez, Alireza Firouzja, and Alexey Sarana won the first three 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 13. It was the debut set of tournaments for the most popular time control on Chess.com for titled players. 3 0 Thursday fit...
GM Hans Niemann won Freestyle Friday with a round still to play on November 14, becoming the ninth multi-time winner of the event. Niemann raced out to a 6/6 start before facing his only setback, a seventh-round loss to GM Haik Martirosyan, t...
Capital One won the North American Corporate Chess League Season 12, its second title since the league's inception. IM Craig Hilby led the team on board one, along with Maury Ahram, Alex Cook, Marco Flores, and Haider Munir on the tiebreak board. ...
Nineteen-year-old GM Javokhir Sindarov's relentless pressure finally gave him a win over GM Frederik Svane as round five of the 2025 FIDE World Cup began. All the remaining games were drawn, with GM Levon Aronian surviving a fierce attack by GM Ar...
The Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 Season Playoffs are upon us, and you can join in on the excitement by predicting who wins! Will SLU defend their championship title, or will Mizzou get their revenge? Will UT Dallas earn their first ch...
You've seen them crawling, and now it's time to see them running! The strongest PogChamps participants in history are gathering to take on new challengers in SuperPogChamps from December 2 to 5. Former chess novices from past PogChamps and strong ...
Second-seed GM Arjun Erigaisi is the only official top-10 player remaining in the 2025 FIDE World Cup after beating GM Peter Leko 2-0 in round-four tiebreaks. GM Daniil Dubov took down 2023 runner-up GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, while GM Andrey E...
GM Alexander Donchenko followed up his win over GM Anish Giri by knocking out German teammate GM Matthias Bluebaum to reach the Last 16 of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. He's joined by GMs Jose Martinez and Levon Aronian, who gave GMs Alexey Sarana and ...
Eleven was the number of the day, with GM Magnus Carlsen winning the 11th Titled Tuesday of the current season on November 11 by scoring a perfect 11/11. In the last four rounds, he toppled a quartet of top rivals in GMs Hans Niemann, Alireza Firo...
Two-time World Cup winner GM Levon Aronian smoothly beat GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek as round four of the 2025 FIDE World Cup began in Goa. The day's only other winner was GM Jose Martinez, who followed a 2-0 victory over GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with a...
No team has had a better run in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) this season than the University of Texas, Dallas. They've defeated both of last season's finalists, and raced out to a perfect 6-0 start. In contrast, Texas Tech University has had ...
GM Yasser Seirawan has described Crazyhouse as "one-person Bughouse," so it was fitting that NM Isaac Chiu, one half of the 2025 Bughouse Championship winning team, also triumphed in the 2025 Crazyhouse Championship. Chiu won the Winners Final 3-1...
Thirty-two players remain in contention to win the 2025 FIDE World Cup ahead of round four. The following players advanced after winning round-three tiebreaks on Sunday: GMs Wei Yi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Yu Yangyi, Sam Shankland...
Following his round-two exit at 2025 FIDE World Cup, GM Ediz Gurel put on a tactical exhibition to capture his sixth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Gurel's final score of 157 saw him edge out GM Tuan Minh Le by a single p...
Upsets continue to stream in at a staggering rate in round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Several 2700+ grandmasters were eliminated after the second classical game: World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju eliminated by Frederik Svane GM Ani...
GM Magnus Carlsen may have been the favorite before the games started, but GM Oleksandr Bortnyk convincingly won his fifth Freestyle Friday tournament 9.5/11, a full point ahead of the former world champion and GM Dmitry Andreikin. With 83 partici...
IM Levy Rozman stunned more than 200,000 of his opponents and "did the meme" in GothamChess vs. the World on November 7 by sacrificing his rook on the game's 21st move. After the world attacked Gotham's rook with a pawn, the internet chess st...
GM Jose Martinez (2644) scored the upset of the day in game one of round three in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. His opponent, world number-12 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2750), played a creative and strong exchange sacrifice to achieve a large advantage,...
There are 64 players heading into round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. In round two tiebreaks this Thursday, 27 players were eliminated. The upset of the day was GM Lorenzo Lodici's (2572) match win against GM Hans Niemann (2729). Another match...
