GM Jose Martinez won Titled Tuesday on May 26, starting off 9.5/10 before winning on tiebreaks over GMs Parham Maghsoodloo and Nihal Sarin. The spring split concludes with GM Sina Movahed atop the standings for a $5,000 prize. Next week, ther...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his first classical game against world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen as Norway Chess 2026 got off to the most dramatic of starts. World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju also looked set to fall after losing his way in a wild time...
GM Hikaru Nakamura reached the Bullet Brawl stratosphere on Saturday after winning 56 games, drawing three, and losing only eight in the two-hour arena, which saw him register a colossal score of 200 points and take home the $400 first prize. Naka...
GM Javokhir Sindarov pounced on a mistake by leader GM Vincent Keymer to grab his first classical win since the FIDE Candidates and transform the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 standings with two rounds to go. Keymer was caught by GM Fabiano Car...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus have added their names to the $50,000 Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz this July, joining an already spectacular lineup that includes GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Javokhir Sindarov, Hans Niemann,...
GMs Aravindh Chithambaram, Andrey Esipenko, Liem Le, and Alexey Sarana were the four players to qualify, through DreamHack Atlanta 2026, for the 2026 Esports World Cup Play-in. There, they will face the four other players who finish at the top of ...
GM Alexey Sarana was your winner in Titled Tuesday on May 19, scoring 9.5 points and coming out ahead of GM Christopher Yoo in tiebreaks. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third for a second straight week, while GM Arjun Erigaisi took fourth place, havi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura added another chapter to his storied Bullet Brawl career on Saturday, dominating a 173-player titled field to win the latest edition of Chess.com’s premier weekly bullet arena with an impressive 171-point haul. Although ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk needed only nine points to win Freestyle Friday outright on May 15, good enough for his eighth Freestyle Friday victory, which tied GM Hikaru Nakamura for the most all time. GM Frederik Svane finished in sole second place on 8...
The $10,000 weekly prize fund isn't quite here yet in Titled Tuesday, but participation was up significantly on May 12, to 436 players after last week's 343 participants. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won a dramatic tournament on tiebreaks ahead of GM Jef...
Titled Tuesday is getting its biggest prize fund ever. Starting June 2, the event will feature a weekly $10,000 prize fund, bringing its yearly total to more than $500,000—more than three times the current purse. Titled Tuesday has become ...
Bullet Brawl was set alight on Saturday by another junior talent, GM Andy Woodward, who blazed his way to a debut title ahead 191 titled players. Fresh off a solid performance at TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2026, Woodward put on an...
For most players, a six-month wait between Titled Tuesday victories would not be remarkable; hundreds play every single week, yet only a few dozen players have even won twice ever. But for all-time victories leader GM Hikaru Nakamura, months betwe...
For the first time since January, GM Hikaru Nakamura took part in and won an edition of Bullet Brawl, keeping his 100% win rate in 2026 intact. The Bullet Brawl king scored 52.5/65 for a total of 172 points, 20 points more than the second-placed G...
Head Coach GM Liem Le announced on April 30 that the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University is discontinued. It has been one of the most powerful collegiate chess programs in the United States for over a decade, ...
If 2024 was the golden year for India, with double gold in the Olympiad and GM Gukesh Dommaraju crowned world champion, 2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for Uzbekistan so far. The nation's number-one GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has already been...
Chess.com Open runner-up GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who qualified for the 2026 Esports World Cup with the result, followed up by winning Titled Tuesday on April 28. Propelled by an 8/8 start, Duda would only score half a point in the next two rounds, ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has rocketed up Bullet Brawl's all-time leaderboard after fending off GM Oleksander Bortnyk and notching his second straight $400 victory on Saturday. With Bortnyk breathing down his neck for most of the arena, Arjun held his ner...
GM Nihal Sarin won his second Titled Tuesday of the last six weeks on April 21, rejoining GM Sina Movahed atop the spring split standings. Whereas in his previous victory, Nihal led wire-to-wire, this week he lost in the third round. Nonetheless, ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has proven his mettle once again in the Bullet Brawl arena by confirming his second title in a commanding display of attacking chess. Arjun scored 52/63 in two hours for a score of 175 points, earning him the $400 first priz...
GM Javokhir Sindarov blew away the field in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Cyprus to win €170,000 (~$200k) and, much more importantly, earn a world championship match against GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates ...
GM Hans Niemann decisively beat fellow American 2700 GM Awonder Liang in a 12-game match in Paris, France. Niemann went undefeated throughout the fast-classical match, winning three games and securing a final 7.5-4.5 victory. The players competed ...
24-year-old Indian star GM Vaishali Rameshbabu will play Chinese GM Ju Wenjun for the women's world championship title after clinching the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates with a final-round win over GM Kateryna Lagno. GM Bibisara Assaubayeva could ha...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare after a draw against GM Anish Giri in round 13. More important than the €70,000 prize, he will be the next challenger to GM Gukesh Dommaraju for the world ...
GM Javokhir Sindarov is guaranteed at least a playoff to win the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after a 35-minute draw vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura put him two points clear with two rounds to go. GM Anish Giri came agonizingly close to moving within 1....
