GM Ian Nepomniachtchi scored 4.5/5 to catch his World Blitz Co-Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and tie for first place in the Round-Robin stage of the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. They will be joined in the Quarterfinals by GMs Maxime V...
Are you ready for free-for-all madness over 160 squares? Then mark your calendar and join the upcoming Chess.com 4 Player Chess Championship! This next event of the Chess.com Community Championships takes place from April 14 to April 18 and featur...
The 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam started with a bang on Monday. The first day featured six rounds of rapid chess and only six of the 36 games ended in draws! World number-one Magnus Carlsen and late addition GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov emerg...
GM Ju Wenjun survived heavy pressure on the board and on the clock to make a five-hour, 80-move draw against GM Tan Zhongyi that leaves the scores level at 2-2 after game four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Both players competed to s...
GM Ju Wenjun ground out a win in a pawn-up endgame to defeat GM Tan Zhongyi and level the scores at 1.5-1.5 after three games of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Tan played fast in a Sicilian to pressure her opponent, but in the run-...
Less than 48 hours before the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons." The U.S. grandmaster is the second player to be replaced, after GM Alireza Fi...
16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel added a third Bullet Brawl title to his trophy cabinet on Saturday after a tense battle with his compatriot, 13-year-old GM Yagiz Erdogmus, and the nine-time Bullet Brawl winner, GM Andrew Tang. Two hours o...
It took a few months for GM Hikaru Nakamura to win his first Freestyle Friday, but just a week later, he won his second. Whereas last week Nakamura needed tiebreaks after a final-round setback, this week he won outright with 10 points after achiev...
The much-anticipated Magnus vs. The World match officially launched on Chess.com on Friday with GM Magnus Carlsen's first move. With 100,000 participants registered on Thursday, the event shattered the record for the largest online chess match eve...
GM Tan Zhongyi has taken a 1.5-0.5 lead in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship after World Champion GM Ju Wenjun collapsed in a rook endgame that seemed headed for an inevitable draw. She fought on after the time control had passed, but Tan m...
Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi played the Sicilian Defense and made a comfortable 39-move draw against World Champion Ju Wenjun as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship began in Shanghai. "From the first game I think Tan is going to be a very t...
GM Liem Le and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners of Titled Tuesday on April 1, Nakamura after finishing second in the early event. Tiebreaks were not necessary to determine either winner or even Nakamura's second-place finish. It was Le's second...
Defending Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun is striving to become only the fourth player in history to win the title five times as she takes on challenger and former champion GM Tan Zhongyi in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shang...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams worked their way back to the Collegiate Chess...
GM Andrew Tang was denied a record-equaling four-peat in Saturday's Bullet Brawl by a dominant performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura that saw him capture his 38th title and the $400 first prize. Following a successful The American Cup campaign, N...
Liam Hereford won the 2025 Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship after winning both the Winners Final and Grand Final Reset. Eduardo Lorenzon lost to Hereford early in the Winners Semifinals but climbed through three matches in the Losers Bracket to...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his first Freestyle Friday on March 28, scoring nine points and winning on tiebreaks against four other players on the same score: GMs Alexey Sarana, Jose Martinez, Jeffery Xiong, and Christopher Yoo. It was the third ...
GM Matthias Bluebaum is the first player to win the European Chess Championship two times. He previously won gold in 2022 and is also the only German to top the event in its 25-year history. He finished in a three-way tie on 8.5/11 with GMs Freder...
We're excited to announce that everyone's favorite chess tournament for amateurs is back! Starting April 29, PogChamps 6 will bring 12 celebrity creators and professional athletes together to participate in the world's funniest and most unique che...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the early Titled Tuesday on March 25 on tiebreaks ahead of World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, although Nakamura scored his 9.5 points in just 10 games after missing round three, which also hurt his ...
Following his win at the 2025 American Cup, GM Hikaru Nakamura picked up another $5,000 the next day with his first-place finish in the 2025 American Cup Blitz. After two weeks of battling with the U.S.'s best players, he leaves St. Louis with a t...
GM Anna Muzychuk has won the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks ahead of GM Zhu Jiner, though both players take 117.5 Grand Prix points and €15,500 (~$16,750) each. The last round ended in five draws, but only after IM Olga Bad...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams have worked their way back to the Collegiate ...
A solid draw with the black pieces vs. GM Fabiano Caruana was all GM Hikaru Nakamura needed to win The American Cup Grand Final on Sunday in St. Louis. Nakamura won the $75,000 first prize plus a $15,000 Champion's Bracket bonus, with $55,000...
