The favorites, GMs Divya Deshmukh and Bibisara Assaubayeva, advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Friday. Between the two of them, the winners lost only a single game. Divya defeated IM Rose Atwell with an u...
GM Kateryna Lagno and IM Alice Lee advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Women's Speed Chess Championship after winning their Round of 16 matches on Wednesday. Lagno's victory was never in doubt as she scored 10.5-3.5 on the way to eliminating...
GM Benjamin Bok has qualified for the 2026 Esports World Cup after defeating GM Vidit Gujrathi in the 2026 India Rising Finals in Mumbai on July 4. The match reached the maximum number of possible games, with all three sets going to armageddo...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and two-time Women's Blitz World Champion Anna Muzychuk advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Ju handily defeated IM Le Thao Nguyen Pham 9.5-4.5, while Muzychuk went ...
IMs Carissa Yip and Leya Garifullina won the rapid and blitz segments (respectively) of the WR Women's Chess Tour - Americas 2026 on Wednesday and Thursday. Along with the $7,000 first prize, they both qualify for the Grand Final in Stuttgart, Ger...
Norway Chess 2026 and the UzChess Cup 2026 were two tournaments that shifted classical ratings for many of the world's top-15 on the July list. The most notable change was, unusually so, an 18-point drop in GM Magnus Carlsen's rating, just as he c...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship after pulling off what once seemed impossible. After taking down GMs Andrew Tang and Arjun Erigaisi in the Losers Bracket, he went on to win back-to-back matches against three-time and defendin...
GM Alireza Firouzja is through to the Grand Final of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship after winning an exhilarating Winners Final against GM Arjun Erigaisi 13-11, including tiebreaks, this Friday. In the Losers Bracket, three players remain. GM ...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Arjun Erigaisi advanced to the Winners Final of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship on Thursday. Firouzja won a close match against GM Nihal Sarin 12.5-9.5, while Arjun blew away GM Andrew Tang 16-6. Just six players are le...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Andrew Tang, and Arjun Erigaisi won both matches on day one of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship to advance in the Winners Bracket. The Losers Bracket is full with 12 players, with the first round of elimination...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the inaugural 2026 ASEAN E-Sports Chess Cup on June 13 and the $8,500 first prize. After finishing at the top of Group A, he went on to defeat GM Andrey Esipenko 2-1 in the Championship Final. The event took place at the Fou...
GM Mukhiddin Madaminov won the 2026 UzChess Cup Masters and $20,000 on June 15 after defeating GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov 2-0 in blitz tiebreaks. Both players finished the round-robin with 5.5/9, with three grandmasters a half-point behind: Ian N...
GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov leads the 2026 UzChess Cup after five hard-fought rounds, where we have seen more decisive games than draws. After losing in round two against GM Hans Niemann, the Uzbek grandmaster has won three games in a row against GMs M...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Bibisara Assaubayeva are the 2026 Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women champions. Assaubayeva ran away with it, while Praggnanandhaa came clutch in a comeback that shocked the other players and even himself. Let's...
GM Wesley So continues to lead Norway Chess 2026 after round nine, but that lead has thinned to a half-point over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. So drew GM Magnus Carlsen and then won the critical extra half-point in armageddon, while Praggnanandha...
Round eight of Norway Chess 2026 will go down as one of the most shocking, with two decisive classical games. GM Wesley So leads after making the only classical draw against GM Vincent Keymer and then winning in armageddon, but we saw world number...
GM Wesley So leads Norway Chess 2026 after round seven, with GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5 points behind. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju achieved a winning position against So but couldn't see it through in the classical game; despite winning the armag...
GM Wesley So leads Norway Chess 2026 after a bloody round six that ended in three decisive results. So inflicted a second consecutive loss on GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and took the lead, while GM Magnus Carlsen exacted revenge on GM Alireza Fir...
All three classical games could have been decisive in round five of Norway Chess 2026, but we got two Black wins and only one draw. GM Vincent Keymer missed a chance in his classical encounter against tournament leader GM Alireza Firouzja, who won...
After a draw in their direct encounter, GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vincent Keymer lead the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 ahead of the last round. Against GM Jorden van Foreest, who started the round in shared first, GM Javokhir Sindarov scored his...
FIDE has officially announced the star-studded team lineups for the upcoming FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Chess Championships 2026. Descending upon Hong Kong’s iconic Queen Elizabeth Stadium June 17-21, this high-stakes festival of...
GMs Aravindh Chithambaram, Andrey Esipenko, Liem Le, and Alexey Sarana were the four players to qualify, through DreamHack Atlanta 2026, for the 2026 Esports World Cup Play-in. There, they will face the four other players who finish at the top of ...
France announced its Open and Women's teams for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026 on Tuesday and notably addressed the absence of French number-one and world number-nine GM Alireza Firouzja. The Iranian-born grandmaster, who moved to France in 201...
GM Hans Niemann has won the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the biggest tournament win of his career so far, to earn the $50,000 first prize. Following up on last year's winner, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, it's the second year in a row that a wildc...
Even after ending the day with three losses, GM Hans Niemann leads the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after the first nine rounds of blitz. GM Wesley So wasn't able to catch up as he lost two out of the last four games himself, making draws i...
