Eighty-three wins, five draws, and three losses was the astounding scorecard posted by GM Hikaru Nakamura in August's third Bullet Brawl, resulting in a record-breaking 313 score. The rampage, which saw him finish 73 points ahead of the second-pla...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat out GM Levon Aronian on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday on August 15, before GM Aram Hakobyan won the late event with the first 10/11 score in two weeks. For both Firouzja and Hakobyan, it was their second Titled Tue...
Chess.com’s flagship Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, the stellar event to find the world’s top player over fast time controls, will kick off next month with GM Hikaru Nakamura gunning for an incredible sixth title in a ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize for the second week in a row ahead of a stacked field of titled players after scoring 63 wins, nine draws, and 13 losses (226 points). His closest rivals were unsurprisingly...
The wait is finally over—we finally know the pairings of the live in-person Finals of PogChamps 5. QTCinderella and Wirtual are the Consolation Bracket finalists, having defeated Daily Dose of Internet and Squeex. In the Championship Brack...
The round three tiebreaks led to an unpleasant day for many of the higher-rated players in the 2023 FIDE World Cup, especially for GM Anish Giri, who was knocked out of the event by GM Nijat Abasov. GM Teimour Radjabov also fell at the hands of GM...
GM Peter Svidler glided to victory over GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Magnus Carlsen displayed his incredible endgame skills, and GMs Daniele Vocaturo and Ivan Schitco pulled off wins against their higher-rated opponents in the third round of the 2023...
Fourteen-year-old IM Ediz Gurel found a brilliant sacrifice to take down GM Velimir Ivic as the 2023 FIDE World Cup kicked off in Baku. Top seeds such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun start their campaigns in ...
Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won July's final Bullet Brawl after chalking up 70 wins in the two-hour arena en route to an insurmountable 261 score. His journey to the top was marked by a 26-game win streak in the final 30 minutes of the event. ...
On July 25, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the third player to win both ends of a Titled Tuesday, after GM Hikaru Nakamura (who has done it five times) and GM Wesley So. Nakamura himself prevented Vachier-Lagrave from joining him and GM Magnus C...
On Friday, the FIDE Qualification Commission and mathematician Jeff Sonas proposed several changes to the rating system aimed at counteracting deflation―so that FIDE ratings more accurately represent players' strength. The commission is opening ...
Three things in life seem to be a surety: death, taxes, and GM Hikaru Nakamura winning the $400 first prize in Bullet Brawl. Hours after securing victory for the fourth time in Chess.com's Bullet Chess Championship, Nakamura was back online again,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura clinched the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Friday, shutting down GM Magnus Carlsen's comeback in overtime in an epic Grand Final. Back in Norway with his home setup, Carlsen switched into another gear and went on a t...
For the second time ever, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on the same day. It previously occurred on October 11, 2022. Just like last time, Nakamura won the early tournament and Carlsen the late event. Nakamura also finis...
GM Hikaru Nakamura smashed records on Saturday when he scored 75 wins and 276 points to claim his fifth Bullet Brawl crown along with the $400 first prize. After falling short in the previous edition, he was nearly invincible in the two-hour, 106-...
GM Magnus Carlsen became only the second player, and first in nearly two years, to score a perfect 11/11 in Titled Tuesday, achieving the feat in the late tournament on July 4, 2023. He won the event by two full points—a half-point better th...
GM Levon Aronian and the Triveni Continental Kings stole the show on day nine of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, winning vs. both the SG Alpine Warriors and Balan Alaskan Knights to join the tie for first. Aronian defeated fellow ico...
Day eight of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 featured two combative matchups that came down to photo finishes. In a match of almost all decisive games, GM Levon Aronian defeated fellow icon, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, leading the Triveni ...
The ambitious crossover between gridiron and chess continued on Wednesday with BlitzChamps: Michigan and was won by Wolverines wide receiver Cornelius Johnson after he swept the offensive lineman Ladarius Henderson in the champions final with a sc...
To win Titled Tuesday, 9.5 points continue to be enough as GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the June 27 renditions of the event, each on that score. Both needed the tiebreak score advantage over one other player in order to secure fi...
FM Alice Lee earned the international master title at age 13 and reset the record as the youngest American-born female to do so. Lee gained her third IM norm at the 2023 Canadian Transnational Chess Championship, facing eight grandmasters and on...
GM Nihal Sarin won the early Titled Tuesday event on May 30 for his second tournament victory in a row after winning last week's late tournament as well. This week he scored 10.5 out of 11 points, one of the few players to achieve that score ...
GM Jose Martinez won his second Bullet Brawl crown and $1,000 on Saturday with an imperious 209 points, eclipsing his nearest challengers, the second and third-placed GMs Sergei Zhigalko (190) and Andrew Tang (180) by multiple wins. In a May edi...
In round nine of the Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023, the competitors threw the fate of the tournament into uncertainty. IM Gunay Mammadzada defeated the leader, WGM Dinara Wagner, while GM Bella Khotenashvili scored her first victo...
