FM Vasilios Kasioumis, who was the runner-up last year, returned to win it all in the 2026 Chess.com 3-Check Championship. This year's runner-up IM Toivo Keinanen did well to win the Grand Final 3-1, but he wasn't able to win the Reset. Kasioumis ...
With brand-new stakes introduced by the announcement of the Freestyle Friday Championship, the victory that GM Oleksandr Bortnyk earned in the February 20 edition of Freestyle Friday gave him a jumpstart toward potentially playing in the 2027 FIDE...
GM Fabiano Caruana followed up on his Titled Tuesday victory this week by becoming the first-ever winner of two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on the same day. He won the first tournament on tiebreaks over GM Matthias Bluebaum. He kept up his form by wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will have White against his U.S. rival GM Hikaru Nakamura when the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament begins in five weeks on March 29. The other first-round pairings are GMs Javokhir Sindarov vs. Andrey Esipenko, Matthias Bluebaum...
GM Fabiano Caruana finished just ahead of GM Denis Lazavik to win Titled Tuesday on February 17, after Caruana defeated GM Wesley So in the final round but Lazavik only made a draw with GM Hikaru Nakamura (in a rematch of the 3rd Place Match in th...
They didn't make the Finals last season, but the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) has added a new player and appears ready to regain the championship form that they displayed in 2024. IM Amilal Munkhdalai came from Mongolia to join the sch...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen has now won 21 official FIDE world championship titles after defeating GM Fabiano Caruana in the Final of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship. We take a look back at the intense three-day event in Weiss...
GM Magnus Carlsen survived and then won a dead-lost position against GM Fabiano Caruana on the way to a 2.5-1.5 victory in the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship Final. A nervous draw in the final game means Carlsen is the Rapid, Blitz, ...
Peruvian IM Renato Terry was crowned as a first-time Bullet Brawl victor on Saturday after he overcame a strong start from GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and posted a winning score of 147. Terry, who is just the third non-GM to win an edition of Bullet Br...
GM Magnus Carlsen will face his great rival GM Fabiano Caruana in Sunday's match for the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship title. Carlsen won the final two games against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to clinch a 3-1 victory, while Caruana su...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored 4.5/7 to top the Group Stage of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Weissenhaus, Germany. He got to pick his opponent in Saturday's Semifinals, choosing GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, while GM Vincent Keyme...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro nearly claimed his first victory in 3 0 Thursday on February 12. He led with nine points out of 11 games in the final minute of the tournament, but GM Matthias Bluebaum scored a come-from-behind victory in his own g...
GM Haik Martirosyan scored 10.5 points in Freestyle Friday on February 13, the most of anyone since last July. In the process, Martirosyan won the tournament—his first win ever in this event—by two whole points. IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Ale...
The 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship is taking place this weekend in Weissenhaus, Germany, with GM Magnus Carlsen topping an eight-player field featuring GMs Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Javokhir Sind...
Already a candidate for the World Championship, GM Javokhir Sindarov took steps toward the 2026 Esports World Cup as well on February 10, winning Titled Tuesday with a 10/11 score. Coming in the largest field since September (455), it was his seco...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Speed Chess Championship to earn his fifth title after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in the Final. A participant in its very first edition in 2016, Carlsen called this year's Final "probably the most fun Speed Chess ...
Current and former NFL players gathered before the Super Bowl for the second annual BlitzChamps Live tournament and festivities in San Francisco, California, on February 6. At the end of the celebration of football and chess, Will Davis, a former ...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are back for 2026! Following the same format as previous years, the event will bring together a stellar field of young talents in the Under-13 and Under-16 categories. Watch as the fu...
GM Magnus Carlsen succeeded in defending his fifth title at the 2025 Speed Chess Championship by defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 15-12 in the Final. It's his third title in consecutive years and Carlsen earned $38,888.89 for his efforts, while Firou...
In an exhibition of dynamism and speed, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his first Bullet Brawl title in five months after outpacing 154 titled players in Saturday's two-hour arena. With GM Hikaru Nakamura unavailable to defend his five-week winnin...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja are the two finalists in the 2025 Speed Chess Championship. Carlsen prevailed in a one-sided match against GM Denis Lazavik 17-9, while Firouzja pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in SCC history to rea...
The 7uice Educational Fair, held on January 31 in Boston, Massachusetts, brought leaders from seemingly unrelated fields to the 64 squares on the chessboard. The 7uice Foundation, founded by Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, partners with instit...
GM Vincent Keymer rode his 10th-round victory over GM Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Friday to a win in the tournament on February 6. Both players scored nine points but Keymer's tiebreaks put him in the lead. Keymer previously won on May 2, 2025, an...
It was a day for "M" names in 3 0 Thursday on February 5, as GMs Parham Maghsoodloo, Haik Martirosyan, and Jose Martinez took the top spots. It was Martinez's fifth victory in the tournament, Maghsoodloo's second, and Martirosyan's first. The wome...
