GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam on 4.5/5 on a day when both took down GM Magnus Carlsen. The defending champion also lost to GM Vladimir Fedoseev, but scored two wins to join the likes...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
GM Magnus Carlsen rules out any cooperation with FIDE and its current administration but insists he is not trying to take down classical chess with his new Freestyle Chess project. The $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus will start w...
IM Justus Williams won Chess.com's inaugural 2025 NextGen Cup, an online round-robin tournament inviting 10 of the most talented players of the African diaspora. Finishing with 7.5 points after nine rounds, he won an exhilarating armageddon playof...
Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...
Two of the chess world's hottest young stars, GMs Volodar Murzin and Arjun Erigaisi, have become two of the first players to sign with major Esports organizations ahead of the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC). Chess will make its historic debut at t...
On February 4, GM Liem Le became the fourth player ever, and the first of 2025, to post a perfect 11/11 score in Titled Tuesday. He joins GMs Hikaru Nakamura (twice), Magnus Carlsen (twice), and Jose Martinez in accomplishing the feat. GM Ale...
The finish to the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters was extraordinary, with both leaders World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu losing their final classical games. When GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov failed to win, that meant a two...
The negotiations between Freestyle Chess, led by its founders Jan Henric Buettner and GM Magnus Carlsen, and the International Chess Federation (FIDE) have collapsed and escalated into a deadlocked conflict. Freestyle Chess has backed down and pos...
The 13th edition of Norway Chess will see the first classical meeting between World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen since the Indian claimed the title in Singapore. Maintaining its traditions, both Norway Ches...
In the unforgettable round 13 of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, both leaders lost their last classical games of the tournament. GM Arjun Erigaisi played a perfect game to defeat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in 31 moves, while GM Vincent Key...
The king of Bullet Brawl, GM Hikaru Nakamura, returned to the top of Chess.com's high-speed titled arena on Saturday, claiming the $400 first prize and extending his all-time win count to 35. To reach the winning score (261), he scored 72/81 and d...
Winning his third game in a row, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated GM Alexey Sarana and now co-leads the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters with World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Gukesh nearly won and nearly lost against GM Jorden van Foreest in a c...
This February, five eligible bachelors and bachelorettes are competing to win your love—and your pieces! Will it be Bachelor #1, DJ Ron Passant, That Person You Ghosted, Trisha, or a goose? That’s for your heart to decide. Read...
For much of the second-ever Freestyle Friday on January 31, it seemed that GM Magnus Carlsen would defend his victory from last week. After starting 9/9 on January 24, Carlsen started 8/8 this Friday. In the end, however, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk...
There were four decisive games in round 11 of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, three of them won by Indian grandmasters with the black pieces. The smoke has cleared, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is still in the sole lead. GM Nodir...
We're excited to announce the first leg of the 2025 Champions Chess Tour, the Chessable Masters! Starting February 16, the event will be the first of two online events on the Tour and feature a $150,000 prize fund. This year, there is more on th...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju pounced on a far from obvious mistake by GM Max Warmerdam to retain the sole lead on 7.5/10 going into the final 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters rest day. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov remains half a point behind after taking huge ris...
German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner is the driving force behind the Freestyle Chess events, the series of tournaments that could shake up the chess world. Along with his friend and business partner, GM Magnus Carlsen, he hopes to revolutionize...
GM Alireza Firouzja came a ninth-round draw away from the first perfect Titled Tuesday of the year on January 28, settling for a full-point victory on 10.5 points in the third straight early field of over 900 players. In the late event, GM Denis L...
In a decision by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) published on Monday, 43-year-old Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs will lose his international master title and his ban from attending FIDE-rated events has been extended from five ye...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju leads his first tournament as world champion after defeating GM Leon Luke Mendonca in round nine to move to 6.5/9 in the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. He's half a point ahead of GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who made a draw agains...
Athens scored their first victory, against Virginia, in the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL), and Saint Louis scored another point against Texas to go on a perfect 2/2. While the first match was one-sided, Saint Louis staged a great comeb...
German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner, the head of Freestyle Chess, has fired back at the International Chess Federation's (FIDE) threats of legal action, labeling it "blackmail," and alleging that FIDE demanded $500,000 for the rights to use th...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wei Yi kept alive their hopes of winning a second Tata Steel Chess Masters title with late wins with Black to move within a point of GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. Caruana pounce...
