GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top 15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
Esports organizations are making a final push to add grandmasters to their teams for the second and last leg of this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT). GMs Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are among the six top grandmasters wh...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reached an unprecedented 40 Bullet Brawl titles after claiming first place in Saturday's two-hour arena with a commanding score of 288. He notched 76/80 games to win the $400 first prize ahead of the second-place finish...
The all-time leading Bullet Brawl title winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura, returned to the top of the standings on Saturday and won the $400 first prize, winning 66 games, drawing six, and losing five. Nakamura's score of 242 saw him finish ahead of fell...
13-year-old Turkish GM Yagiz Erdogmus added a second Bullet Brawl title to his ever-growing trophy case on Saturday after scoring 72/79 for a total of 258 points in the two-hour arena. Erdogmus won the $400 first prize ahead of GMs Ediz Gurel, Hik...
56-year-old Ukrainian GM Vasyl Ivanchuk played a staggering 27 games in 19 days in April as he picked up 40 rating points to return to the Top 100 on the May 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Wesley So moved up to 11th, while the biggest climber near the ...
GM Andrew Tang won his 10th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after one of the quickest finishes in the event's history. A 17-game unbeaten streak at the tail end of the arena helped him eclipse GM Oleksandr Bortnyk by eight ...
The one and only GM Vasyl Ivanchuk capped off a brilliant comeback by winning the 4th Menorca Open with an unbeaten 8/9 score and an impressive 2833 performance. The 56-year-old secured his first major tournament victory since 2019, and with it, a...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk rocketed to a second-straight Bullet Brawl victory and won the $400 first prize after outpacing 140 titled players during Saturday's event. Bortnyk's 65.5/74 gave him a score of 233, 34 points higher than the second-placed IM ...
GM Bogdan Daniel Deac and GM Magnus Carlsen took home the Titled Tuesday first-place prizes on April 15 (it may have been tax day in the United States, but they're not due in either Romania or Norway yet). Both players scored 10 points, although D...
India's most prominent esports organization has entered the chess esports scene with the double signing of GMs Aravindh Chithambaram and Nihal Sarin, two of the nation's biggest stars. The grandmasters will now represent S8UL as they try to qualif...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, Bullet Brawl's third most prolific winner, added an 11th career title to his trophy cabinet after topping the 205-player arena on Saturday. Bortnyk turned back challenges from GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Jose Martinez, and Ediz Gu...
Hope you were watching Titled Tuesday on April 8, where GM Magnus Carlsen won the second tournament with a perfect 11/11 score. It was Carlsen's third perfect Titled Tuesday, moving him into the sole lead in that statistic ahead of GM Hikaru Nakam...
16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel added a third Bullet Brawl title to his trophy cabinet on Saturday after a tense battle with his compatriot, 13-year-old GM Yagiz Erdogmus, and the nine-time Bullet Brawl winner, GM Andrew Tang. Two hours o...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is back to world number-four on the April 2025 FIDE rating list after two wins in the German League saw him leapfrog GM Fabiano Caruana, who lost to GM Hikaru Nakamura in The American Cup. The truly spectacular Indian achievement...
GM Andrew Tang was denied a record-equaling four-peat in Saturday's Bullet Brawl by a dominant performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura that saw him capture his 38th title and the $400 first prize. Following a successful The American Cup campaign, N...
GM Andrew Tang has become the third player in Bullet Brawl history to secure a hat trick after the American topped the 200-player titled arena on Saturday with a score of 255 points. He seized the $400 first prize for the fifth time this year...
GM Andrew Tang's purple patch has continued, with the hyperbullet exponent capturing his fourth Bullet Brawl title of 2025 and eighth overall after scoring 249 points. Tang eclipsed the scores of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Daniel Naroditsky, Arjun Eri...
After posting a 29-game streak in Saturday's event, GM Andrew Tang joined GM Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as one of three players to win three Bullet Brawls in 2025. Tang scored 70 wins, one draw, and eight losses and scored 258 points&md...
Freestyle Friday is still a relatively new event, with its seventh-ever rendition being held on March 7. In it, GM Arjun Erigaisi set two firsts: he became the first player to win any two Freestyle Fridays and the first player to win two in a row....
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11. After several p...
GM Hikaru Nakamura made a resounding statement in Saturday's Bullet Brawl, dominating the strongest edition in history after scoring 75.5/80 and accumulating 286 points. IM Yoseph Taher and GM Sam Sevian rounded out the podium, finishing well belo...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday outright over a field of 307 players on February 28, doing so with a win over erstwhile leader GM Shant Sargsyan in the final round. GM Hikaru Nakamura ended up taking second place from Sargsyan on tiebreaks,...
