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...
The second edition of the new, monthly version of Arena Kings happened on November 5. In this month's multi-club arena with more than 1,800 total players representing 52 squads, K2N Chess won the overall standings, while GM Jose Ibarra took home t...
We're excited to announce that you can now get tickets to watch the Speed Chess Championship Live Finals in London. Experience the thrill that only the SCC can provide, and join the roaring crowd cheering for their heroes as they battle in high-sp...
Twenty-seven matches go to tiebreaks after the second classical game in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. GM Pentala Harikrishna played the Game of the Day, if not the tournament, with a stunning queen sacrifice against GM Arseniy Nesterov. ...
GM Denis Lazavik won Titled Tuesday on November 4, seizing the outright lead away from GM Jose Martinez in the final round on a day where such tournament lead changes were typical. GM Magnus Carlsen took second place ahead of Martinez while G...
Twenty-one players, on a total of 64 boards in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, scored wins and are a draw away from advancing to round three. On the top boards, we saw GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Wei Yi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Ma...
For the last couple of years the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) has been a battle between two giants, the defending champions, Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou). However, in week five, the University of ...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro, the youngest participant in the 2025 FIDE World Cup, is among the 20 players who advance to round two after tiebreaks. He defeated GM Ante Brkic 5-3 in one of the longest matches. The matchups only get harder ...
GM Victor Mikhalevski of Israel won the 50+ section at the FIDE World Senior Championships in Gallipoli, Italy, on Saturday. IM Alexander Reprintsev of Ukraine edged out five other players on tiebreaks to win the 65+ group. In the Women's sections...
GothamChess vs. The World has blown past previously-established records and continues to set new ones, with now more than 200,000 players having joined in. That total is nearly 40% more than the previous record, which was set during Magnus vs. the...
Of the 78 matches in round one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, 20 will go to rapid and blitz tiebreaks on Monday. The rest have been decided in the classical portion, almost unanimously, with the favorites winning. The upset of the day was IM Shixu Wa...
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to his 14th career victory ahead of 48-time winner GM Hikaru Nakamura. Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour arena...
GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth, while W...
The favorites—including GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Jeffery Xiong, and Maxim Rodshtein on top boards—prevailed with almost no upsets in round one, game one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. GM Salem Saleh won the Game of the Day with a brillian...
On a Halloween edition of Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a victory on October 31 after missing the past few tournaments. Nakamura was 1.5 points behind the lead after five rounds, but with the tenacity akin to a horror movie anta...
GM Fabiano Caruana won an incredibly close match against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals, where he will face GM Magnus Carlsen. Only the bullet segment separated the two players, with Caruana b...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at one point led by 10 points before finishing with a 17.5-10.5 score against GM Anish Giri to cruise into the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Nepomniachtchi called it, "some really good training in the Catalan w...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with two games to spare. He defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju two times, and then also beat GM Fabiano Caruana twice, to win the event and earn the $120,000 first prize, all be...
The reigning champions of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL), Saint Louis University (SLU), have a difficult path to defending their title. They have lost a match already, and have not yet played the other finalist from last season, the Univer...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown after day two. The world number-one won both games in both matches against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, so that he was still in first even with two losses...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
We're excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Crazyhouse Chess Championship starts on November 6 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Featuring a variant where initiative is everything, get ready for...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with four points out of a possible six on day one. After losing game one against GM Magnus Carlsen, he had the best day, scoring three wins and two draws in his remain...
