GM Magnus Carlsen seemed to be on his way to extending his lead in Norway Chess 2025 by another three points with a second win against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. But the 19-year-old GM, who had been losing, pounced on a blunder and turned th...
Round five of Norway Chess 2025 featured three classical draws followed by three armageddon wins. GM Magnus Carlsen won the armageddon game with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana to extend his lead. GM Hikaru Nakamura had winning chances in both th...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Chess.com Classic with a game to spare. In the Grand Final against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, he won a 24-move miniature in game one, drew game two, and then won a rook endgame in game three to finish the match e...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won three matches in the Losers Bracket to earn his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final against GM Magnus Carlsen. He won his first match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in armageddon, accepting a draw with Black...
GM Magnus Carlsen earned his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final after knocking GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura out of the Winners Bracket. In a hard-to-believe finale, Nakamura seemed on the verge of a comeback in game fo...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Ian Nepomniachtchi are the last ones standing in the Winners Bracket after day one of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Playoffs. On their last lives in the Losers Bracket are eight mor...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top 15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, his first Grand Chess Tour victory. He earns $77,667 and 10 GCT points. The path was far from smooth. He drew comfortably against GM Levon Aronian in his last classi...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu broke into the sole lead just before the final round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. He defeated GM Wesley So from the black side of a Benko Gambit. There was one more decisive result: World Champion Gukesh...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the only decisive game of round seven in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. He is now in a group of four players who are a half-point behind the leaders. With draws in all the other ...
After six rounds of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, we are still far from having a frontrunner. Four players are tied in first place. In the only decisive game of the round, GM Alireza Firouzja defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to ...
The standings remain unchanged after round five of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. After a day of all draws, we still have three leaders: GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, with four players a...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave joined the three-way tie for first, with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after round four. He won a surprisingly one-sided game against World Champion Gukesh D...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after three rounds, both winning for the first time in the tournament. Caruana toppled the previous leader, GM Alireza Firouzja, while Praggnanandhaa wo...
Both players who lost the previous day, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, bounced back with wins in the two decisive games of round two in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Deac scored his first white win in a Grand Chess T...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Wesley So started off with wins in round one of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Firouzja won our Game of the Day against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, where the French numbers one and two battled in the French Defens...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev has won the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with three rounds to spare and ultimately finished with 26.5 points, one of the highest scores ever in Grand Chess Tour rapid and blitz events. He takes home $40,000. The Su...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev leads the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland by nearly four points going into the final day. After previously making six draws to end the rapid portion, he nearly "pulled a Magnus" on the first day of blitz by scoring a re...
WFM Megan Paragua is a young master to watch out for. Just 12 years old, she put up a performance rating of 2506 (grandmaster strength) by round seven at the 2025 Grenke Chess Open A after a draw with GM Mikheil Kekelidze. Though she lost the last...
Just a day ago, GM Magnus Carlsen achieved the seemingly impossible (again). This time, he won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with a perfect 9/9 score. While his stellar performance stole headlines during the five-day event, we review seven ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with an out-of-this-world, perfect 9/9 score. He had already won the tournament with a round to spare in round eight, but round nine was about cementing his legacy of dominance. With a...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues his streak of perfection in the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, now with seven rounds under his belt. He won a smooth game against GM Awonder Liang before his rollercoaster game against GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who...
GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the sole lead in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open as the only player with a perfect score after five rounds. He enjoyed two smooth victories on Saturday against GM Etienne Bacrot and 53-year-old GM Victor Mikhalevski, wh...
14 players are on a perfect score after three rounds in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. On a day of upsets, several pre-tournament favorites lost: GM Aravindh Chithambaram (against GM Maciej Klekowski), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (against Slovak I...
