With brand-new stakes introduced by the announcement of the Freestyle Friday Championship, the victory that GM Oleksandr Bortnyk earned in the February 20 edition of Freestyle Friday gave him a jumpstart toward potentially playing in the 2027 FIDE...
GM Fabiano Caruana followed up on his Titled Tuesday victory this week by becoming the first-ever winner of two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on the same day. He won the first tournament on tiebreaks over GM Matthias Bluebaum. He kept up his form by wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will have White against his U.S. rival GM Hikaru Nakamura when the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament begins in five weeks on March 29. The other first-round pairings are GMs Javokhir Sindarov vs. Andrey Esipenko, Matthias Bluebaum...
GM Jan Timman, a former world number-two, multiple world championship candidate, nine-time Dutch national champion, prolific author, honorary editor of New in Chess magazine, and endgame studies specialist, passed away on Wednesday after battling ...
Chess.com and Freestyle Chess are proud to launch the Freestyle Friday Championship, a brand-new, season-long race that will award a direct spot in the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship and in the 2027 FIDE Women's Freestyle Chess World...
You can now get coached by two of India's most recognized chess personalities, GM Viswanathan Anand and IM Tania Sachdev! Pick them as your coach and enjoy their voices and commentary every time you use Game Review, solve puzzles, and more! As...
On February 14, 15-year-old American GM Andy Woodward broke the Chess.com bullet rating record, previously held by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura set the previous record of 3570 on November 11, 2020, meaning that it stood for more than five years. W...
You can now play chess against iconic musician, artist, and activist Yoko Ono on Chess.com—while also experiencing her art! Challenge the Yoko bot and play with an exclusive all-white chess set based on Yoko Ono's "Play It By Trust" artwor...
GM Fabiano Caruana finished just ahead of GM Denis Lazavik to win Titled Tuesday on February 17, after Caruana defeated GM Wesley So in the final round but Lazavik only made a draw with GM Hikaru Nakamura (in a rematch of the 3rd Place Match in th...
They didn't make the Finals last season, but the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) has added a new player and appears ready to regain the championship form that they displayed in 2024. IM Amilal Munkhdalai came from Mongolia to join the sch...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen has now won 21 official FIDE world championship titles after defeating GM Fabiano Caruana in the Final of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship. We take a look back at the intense three-day event in Weiss...
Some players love the London System, others hate it. But the truth is, those who hate it are probably the ones playing against it. And now, it's your turn to master one of the most popular—and easiest to play—white openings in chess wi...
GM Zhou Jianchao's extraordinary unbeaten run ended last weekend after 158 classical games. The Chinese-born grandmaster has made it to the history books by achieving the longest known run of consecutive classical games without losing. The 37-ye...
GM Magnus Carlsen survived and then won a dead-lost position against GM Fabiano Caruana on the way to a 2.5-1.5 victory in the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship Final. A nervous draw in the final game means Carlsen is the Rapid, Blitz, ...
Peruvian IM Renato Terry was crowned as a first-time Bullet Brawl victor on Saturday after he overcame a strong start from GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and posted a winning score of 147. Terry, who is just the third non-GM to win an edition of Bullet Br...
GM Magnus Carlsen will face his great rival GM Fabiano Caruana in Sunday's match for the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship title. Carlsen won the final two games against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to clinch a 3-1 victory, while Caruana su...
Seven of the world's leading players have published an open letter expressing frustration about a scheduling conflict in August between this year's Grand Chess Tour and the Esports World Cup. The letter, signed by GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Lev...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored 4.5/7 to top the Group Stage of the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Weissenhaus, Germany. He got to pick his opponent in Saturday's Semifinals, choosing GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, while GM Vincent Keyme...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro nearly claimed his first victory in 3 0 Thursday on February 12. He led with nine points out of 11 games in the final minute of the tournament, but GM Matthias Bluebaum scored a come-from-behind victory in his own g...
GM Haik Martirosyan scored 10.5 points in Freestyle Friday on February 13, the most of anyone since last July. In the process, Martirosyan won the tournament—his first win ever in this event—by two whole points. IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Ale...
The 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship is taking place this weekend in Weissenhaus, Germany, with GM Magnus Carlsen topping an eight-player field featuring GMs Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Javokhir Sind...
Queen of Chess, the new Netflix documentary chronicling the rise of GM Judit Polgar, has cracked the Top 10 list of the most-popular movies on Netflix worldwide. Latest data from Flixpatrol, a site that tracks streaming performance across dozens...
In celebration of Netflix’s new documentary The Queen of Chess, the story of GM Judit Polgar’s rise from child phenom to one of the greatest chess players who ever lived, Chess.com is proud to release four limited-edition bots of the i...
Already a candidate for the World Championship, GM Javokhir Sindarov took steps toward the 2026 Esports World Cup as well on February 10, winning Titled Tuesday with a 10/11 score. Coming in the largest field since September (455), it was his seco...
