GM Wesley So won his maiden title in The American Cup 2026 on Wednesday. After winning the first game against GM Levon Aronian the previous day, he held the necessary draw in game two to secure the match. He makes $75,000 plus another $15,000 bonu...
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the next game on...
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in the Grand ...
GM Wesley So, trailing by a point against GM Fabiano Caruana in The American Cup 2026 Champions Final, needed to win on demand just to stay alive. He did just that, in an opposite-color bishop endgame, and then won the blitz playoffs to advance to...
GM Fabiano Caruana picked up a win against GM Wesley So in the first game of The American Cup 2026 Champions Final. In the Elimination Bracket, GMs Sam Sevian and Leinier Dominguez were eliminated by GMs Levon Aronian and Awonder Liang, respective...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So advance to the Champions Final of The American Cup 2026. After making draws in the classical portion, they overcame GMs Awonder Liang and Sam Sevian in blitz tiebreaks 1.5-0.5 each, respectively. In the Eliminatio...
GMs Ray Robson and Abhimanyu Mishra were the first to leave The American Cup 2026 after matches in the Elimination Bracket didn't go their way. The quadragenarian GMs Levon Aronian and Leinier Dominguez won respectively and advanced, while GM...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Awonder Liang, Sam Sevian, and Wesley So advance in the Champions Bracket of The American Cup 2026 after defeating GMs Abhimanyu Mishra, Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez, and Ray Robson respectively. Caruana held a draw a...
Day one of The American Cup 2026 saw GM Fabiano Caruana draw blood against GM Abhimanyu Mishra in game one, while the three other games ended in draws. Mishra will have to win game two on Wednesday to stay in the Championship Bracket. We saw even ...
Tata Steel Chess Masters 2026 and the Challengers, which started in mid-January and ended at the start of February, were responsible for most of the rating changes among the world's top players. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov followed up his 19-point ga...
GM Mikhail Antipov won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 7.5/9 to earn the $25,000 first prize. He and GM Fabiano Caruana were neck and neck going into the last round, and both had the black pieces. Antipov managed to win his last game against GM ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Lorenzo Lodici, and Vasif Durarbayli lead the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 3.5 points apiece after four rounds. It's nearly the halfway point of the nine-round tournament, and there are no fewer than nine players in the chasi...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 Ray Robson won his sixth title at the 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship after defeating GM Pranav Venkatesh 5-1 in the Grand Final. Earning another $1,500, Robson has won every edition of the event except for last year, when GM Andy Woodward ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 2026 Freestyle Chess World Championship Play-in Knockout to earn $1,000 and qualify for the last available spot in the world championship. He beat GM Amin Tabatabaei 1.5-0.5 in the Semifinals and then GM Pranav Ven...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Pranav Venkatesh, Grigoriy Oparin, and Amin Tabatabaei all finished with 7/9 to place in the top-four of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship Play-in Swiss, and they advance to the Knockout. Only one of the f...
Both day-one leaders built on their momentum to earn maiden titles on day two. GM Wesley So won 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, his first time winning the title after six attempts. He finished in sole first with 12/18, while GMs Nihal Sari...
GM Wesley So leads at the halfway point of 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with seven points out of nine games. After blundering into a mate-in-one the first game, So stormed back to snatch the lead from GM Arjun Erigaisi, who started with ...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid tournament with 6.5 points out of nine games on Friday. It's his second time winning the tournament, the first being in 2022, and he earns $10,000. He dedicated his victory to his ...
GMs Viswanathan Anand and Nihal Sarin ended day two of 2026 Tata Steel Chess India in the shared lead with 4.5 points out of six games. Anand lost his first game against GM Arjun Erigaisi but bounced back with two wins, while Nihal won all three o...
