Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.
GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth, while W...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at one point led by 10 points before finishing with a 17.5-10.5 score against GM Anish Giri to cruise into the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Nepomniachtchi called it, "some really good training in the Catalan w...
GM Hans Niemann demolished former World Champion Ding Liren 18-6 to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Ding's first win came in game 12, when a 10-1 scoreline had already made a comeback all but impossible. Niemann will now fac...
GM Hans Niemann ended GM Abhimanyu Mishra's 71-game unbeaten streak to join GMs Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead after round five. So's sole lead ended with a 15-minute draw against GM Levon Aronian, and he wa...
GM Hans Niemann won a dramatic game against GM Sam Shankland in round four of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship to join GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in second place on 2.5/4, half a point behind leader GM Wesley So. Niemann's was the ...
Three-time U.S. Champion Wesley So beat 2018 Champion Sam Shankland to take the sole lead in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship on 2.5/3. He's trailed by half a point by GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, who made quiet draws with the black piec...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Shankland joined GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in a four-way tie for the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead on 1.5/2 after scoring the only wins in round two. So beat his old college roommate GM Ray Robson while S...
GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed t...
Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov dominated to win 2025 Clutch Chess: The Legends with two games to spare, 30 years to the day after clinching victory over GM Viswanathan Anand in the 1995 World Chess Championship match. Anand hadn't won a ...
GM Viswanathan Anand had over a minute on his clock in a winning position but lost on time to GM Garry Kasparov as day two of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends got off to the worst possible start for the Indian legend. Kasparov went on to dominat...
Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov leads 15th World Champion Viswanathan Anand 2.5-1.5 after day one of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends, a three-day clash taking place 30 years after their world championship match. After two draws in rapid che...
WFM Anna Cramling blundered a piece against 12-year-old Zac Chua from Canada and didn't realize until three moves later, but she shrugged off that slip-up to win the sixth episode of Kids vs. Stars 2.5-1.5. "I would rather go skydiving!" she said ...
It's now less than a month until the $2 million 2025 FIDE World Cup begins on November 1, with a 206-player field topped by the Indian trio of World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. The event will tak...
GM Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, scored a 6-0 clean sweep in a simultaneous display as her Global Chess Festival celebrated its 11th edition. The festival, staged on September 30 in Budapest, attracted thousands of vi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's wins in state championships have taken him back to 2816, a peak he reached exactly a decade ago, but also provoked FIDE to change its rules. Elsewhere GM Anish Giri's victory in the FIDE Grand Swiss took him up to world number...
FM James Canty III is the Super Heavyweight Chessboxing World Champion after winning two chess-and-boxing bouts in the 7th World Chessboxing Championships in Loznica, Serbia. He ducked and weaved in the ring and was just too fast for his opponents...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu blundered with a second on his clock to turn a promising position into a pawn-down endgame, but GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed a win as their 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals semifinal began with a draw. The other match-...
Argentina’s IM Faustino Oro has scored his first grandmaster norm after a stunning 6/7 start to the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid, Spain. Only World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Illya Nyzhnyk have ever scored a GM nor...
GMs Anish Giri and Vaishali Rameshbabu topped the tables of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, but the 172 players in 11 rounds brought countless stories. We got the surprise Candidates qual...
GM Anish Giri played a perfect slow, grinding game to defeat GM Hans Niemann and win the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss with 8/11. Giri takes the $90,000 top prize and earns a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, where he'll be joined by GM Matthia...
GM Hans Niemann's win over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was the only decisive game on the top-nine boards as he caught GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer, and Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead. They're on 7/10 going...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, and Vincent Keymer all won to catch GM Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 6.5/9 with two rounds to go. Firouzja won a wild 82-move clash against previous co-leader GM Nihal Sarin, Giri caught G...
Indian GM Nihal Sarin defeated GM Parham Maghsoodloo to grab the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 5.5/7, where he was joined by GM Matthias Bluebaum, who stunned GM Arjun Erigaisi. GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Hans Niemann, and Vidit ...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo drew against GM Arjun Erigaisi to remain sole leader of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss going into the only rest day, while GMs Anish Giri and Nihal Sarin both won sharp games to join a six-player pack half a point behind. World Ch...
Sixteen-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round five of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, becoming the youngest player ever to defeat a reigning champion in a game of classical chess. GM Parham Maghsoodloo rem...
