GM Ediz Gurel capped off a tremendous November in the Bullet Brawl arena by picking up his third $400 win of the month on Saturday. Gurel won 49 games, drew three, and lost 13, amassing a winning score of 167 points in the process. GMs Hikaru Na...
Turkey's prodigious GM Ediz Gurel won his second Bullet Brawl of the month on Saturday after posting a 22-game unbeaten streak and staving off a late challenge from GM Nihal Sarin. Gurel scored 157 points, three more than the Indian super-GM, and ...
GM Magnus Carlsen is officially among the 360 players registered for the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Championship, to be held in Doha, Qatar, on December 26-30, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced Thursday. FIDE said 235 players...
GM Nihal Sarin secured his third Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after going unbeaten in his last seven games. Nihal scored two wins over GM Hikaru Nakamura, and defeated GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and IM Reza Mahdavi bef...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) confirmed on Tuesday that they have formally filed a complaint against GM Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th world champion, referring him to the Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) for investigation into t...
Following his round-two exit at 2025 FIDE World Cup, GM Ediz Gurel put on a tactical exhibition to capture his sixth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Gurel's final score of 157 saw him edge out GM Tuan Minh Le by a single p...
There are 64 players heading into round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. In round two tiebreaks this Thursday, 27 players were eliminated. The upset of the day was GM Lorenzo Lodici's (2572) match win against GM Hans Niemann (2729). Another match...
Twenty-seven matches go to tiebreaks after the second classical game in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. GM Pentala Harikrishna played the Game of the Day, if not the tournament, with a stunning queen sacrifice against GM Arseniy Nesterov. ...
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to his 14th career victory ahead of 48-time winner GM Hikaru Nakamura. Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour arena...
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 Javokhir Sindarov collected his first Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize after outpacing seven challengers on Saturday. Sindarov posted a score of 159 and eclipsed IM Yoseph Taher, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and IM Reza Mahdavi for ...
The chess world is mourning after the heartbreaking death of GM Daniel Naroditsky, a loss that has sparked an unprecedented wave of tributes from fans and top players such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Levon Aro...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won $45,000 in the inaugural 2025 Comet Open, an event that concluded on Sunday, October 19. He didn't lose a single one of his six matches, finally defeating GM Denis Lazavik 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. He earns $45,000, while ...
The 16-year-old Turkish prodigy and GM Ediz Gurel has moved to fifth on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after picking up his third win of 2025. Gurel scored 177 points, comprising 49 wins, six draws, and seven losses, giving him a winning ma...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on October 14, his third of the Autumn Split and first since the recent birth of his son, leading commentator GM David Howell to dub the champion "Daddy Carlsen." Carlsen flirted with a perfect score after reac...
Thirty-two players, including top GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, and Alireza Firouzja, have qualified for the inaugural 2025 Comet Open main event. Next weekend, over two days of playoffs, the players will compete for their s...
The former world junior champion GM Jeffery Xiong rocketed to his first Bullet Brawl title on Saturday ahead of 148 other titled players after playing the unorthodox Orangutan Opening in most of his games with White. Xiong accrued a total score ...
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 Daniel Naroditsky was the deserving winner of October's first Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after he toppled 30 players with Chess.com bullet ratings over 3000 en route to a dominant victory. Naroditsky scored 55/73 overall and accumu...
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...
"HN" won another Titled Tuesday on September 30, but this time it was GM Hans Niemann who took home the victory, while last week's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura was runner-up this week. Only two draws kept the undefeated Niemann from a perfect score, ...
GM Andrew Tang has reclaimed equal third position on Bullet Brawl's all-time leaderboard after prevailing over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in a sprint to the finish in Saturday's arena. Tang combined pace and precision to amass a score of 162 points, e...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has moved one step closer to a historic 50th Bullet Brawl title after outscoring GMs Andrew Tang, Daniel Naroditsky, and 196 hungry titled players on Saturday. Nakamura scored 174 points in the two-hour arena and won the...
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...
