It's the tournament GM Magnus Carlsen won with 9/9 last year, and on Thursday evening he started the new edition with another win: the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. It is part of the Grenke Chess Festival that boasts over 3,500 participants in Karl...
While his compatriot GM Javokhir Sindarov carves up at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has quietly moved into fourth position on the April FIDE classical rating list after a commanding victory at the 2026 Prague Inter...
Three co-leaders, none of them playing each other, all made draws in the final round, but someone still had to win the Titled Tuesday tournament out of GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Hans Niemann, and Parham Maghsoodloo. And that is the order tiebreaks p...
Turkiye's GM Ediz Gurel created Bullet Brawl history on Saturday after joining the arena 34 minutes late and still winning the event. Gurel finished ahead of 162 titled players, including the five-time world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, who also j...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vincent Keymer, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov headline the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open, part of the Grenke Chess Festival, which runs April 2-6 in Karlsruhe, Germany and is one of the largest and most spectacular events in the worl...
India's GM Nihal Sarin was the only unbeaten player as he won the final Play-In of the 2026 Chess.com Open and made what he joked was "a very tough choice" to play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and not GM Magnus Carlsen in the Playoffs. The playe...
GM Zhamsaran Tsydypov scored 9.5/11 to win his first Titled Tuesday ever on March 24, despite taking a draw in a dead-winning position the final round. GM Vladimir Fedoseev, the only player who could have caught him, blundered into checkmate again...
Fifteen-year-old GM Sina Movahed won Play-In 3 of the 2026 Chess.com Open with 7.5/9 and picked GM Arjun Erigaisi as his knockout opponent. Four players scored 7/9, with GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Nihal Sarin missing out on tiebreaks, while GMs Da...
The 14-year-old Turkish sensation GM Yagiz Erdogmus made a big splash on his return to the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday, taking the top spot ahead of 176 titled players. Erdogmus accumulated 162 points, comprising 49 wins, two draws, and 16 loss...
Titled Tuesday on March 17 was decided on the clock, as GM Nihal Sarin took home the victory with a final-round win over GM Nils Grandelius, with just 0.7 seconds remaining when Grandelius' time expired in a drawn rook ending. Nihal started 8/8 an...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-In 1 on Monday. Nepomniachtchi won the tournament outright, while Abdusattorov finished second and secured his spot by defeating third-pla...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk entered the Bullet Brawl ring and emerged victorious for the second week in a row on Saturday after storming home and posting a score of 161 points, pocketing the $400 first prize for the 16th time. In second place was GM Ar...
GM Sina Movahed, the 15-year-old Iranian grandmaster coming off of victory in the Under-16 ChessKid Youth Championship, became the first player to score 10.5 points in a Titled Tuesday in 2026 on March 10, going to wire-to-wire to win the tourname...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is $400 richer and has added a 15th Bullet Brawl title to his name after coming out on top of what he described as "one of the hardest" Bullet Brawls he has won. With a score of 150 points, Bortnyk finished two points ahead of...
GM Hikaru Nakamura tops the field in the first Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz, set for July 3–5 at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, United States. The event will bring together some of the world's strongest speed chess...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won Titled Tuesday on March 3 as the Spring Split, the third and final portion of the 2025-26 Titled Tuesday season, opened. Sindarov defeated GM Nihal Sarin in the final round and emerged as the victor on tiebreaks after co-l...
Tata Steel Chess Masters 2026 and the Challengers, which started in mid-January and ended at the start of February, were responsible for most of the rating changes among the world's top players. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov followed up his 19-point ga...
GM Andrew Tang secured his 15th career Bullet Brawl title on Saturday after laying down one of the best recent performances. Having stopped challenges by GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin, Tang stormed home to a 15th career victory. With 50 win...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the February 24 edition of Titled Tuesday to wrap up the winter split with his second win of the month, becoming one of eight qualifiers into the Chess.com Open. Vachier-Lagrave won in the final round to reach 9.5 poi...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the second Indian player, alongside GM Nihal Sarin, to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after a dominant performance on Saturday. A 12-game winning streak catapulted Arjun into first place, and he then sealed the $400 f...
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...
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...
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...
In an exhibition of dynamism and speed, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his first Bullet Brawl title in five months after outpacing 154 titled players in Saturday's two-hour arena. With GM Hikaru Nakamura unavailable to defend his five-week winnin...
