The first 16 players have been determined for the 2026 Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot tournament (“Total Chess 2026 Pilot”), FIDE and Norway Chess announced on Tuesday. This year's event is a test run for the 2027 inaugural ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship by defeating GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2.5-1.5 in the final match. Along with €70,000, he earned his ninth world blitz title and 20th world championship title across all th...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games and six rounds left in the Swiss portion. GM Magnus Carlsen, who dominated the rapid world championshi...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his sixth world rapid championship title after winning the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship a full point ahead of the field with 10.5/13. It's his 19th world championship title across three time controls and he ea...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Hans Niemann lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after day two with 7.5 points out of nine games. A half-point behind are four players: GM Magnus Carlsen, who bounced back from losing against Artemiev in ro...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Vladislav Artemiev lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with 4.5 points out of five games on the first day. The group of 15 players that trails them by ...
GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals to win the $200,000 first prize. Following up on his win in Las Vegas over the summer, it's his second Grand Slam win in a row. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian will contest the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, where first place comes with $200,000. Carlsen won a close semifinal match against GM Javokhir Sindarov, who won on demand once and ne...
GM Magnus Carlsen lost the first game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, but then won on demand with Black to force tiebreaks. There, he won both blitz games and already clinched the 2025 Freestyle Chess Gran...
On his 20th birthday, GM Javokhir Sindarov finished at the top of the Group Stage with 5.5/7 in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa. In round one, he won the Game of the Day against GM Magnus Carlsen. In second and third were GMs...
The Finals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025, taking place near Cape Town, South Africa, are just around the corner. The year-long tour brings together eight world-class players to compete in a Chess960 tournament that starts at the Groo...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his Speed Chess Championship 2025 quarterfinal match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 19-9 to book his ticket to the Live Finals in London. There, he will face GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Semifinals. The last quarterfinal matc...
GMs Wei Yi, Javokhir Sindarov, and Andrey Esipenko will join GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in the 2025 FIDE World Cup Semifinals after winning their quarterfinal matches in tiebreaks. Respectively, they defeated GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Jose Martinez, and Sam ...
Three matches go to tiebreaks after four draws in game two of the Quarterfinals in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. One match did end, with GM Nodirbek Yakubboev advancing to the Semifinals after holding a draw against GM Alexander Donchenko, making good ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
