GMs Matthias Bluebaum and Nihal Sarin continue to lead the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss after round eight. They made a quick draw, and not one of the seven players behind them was able to catch up. GMs Vincent Keymer and Jorden van Foreest, with respecti...
Indian GM Nihal Sarin defeated GM Parham Maghsoodloo to grab the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 5.5/7, where he was joined by GM Matthias Bluebaum, who stunned GM Arjun Erigaisi. GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Hans Niemann, and Vidit ...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo drew against GM Arjun Erigaisi to remain sole leader of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss going into the only rest day, while GMs Anish Giri and Nihal Sarin both won sharp games to join a six-player pack half a point behind. World Ch...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday by a full point on September 9, but don't let the final margin fool you into thinking the result was a runaway. Tied with GM Alireza Firouzja entering the final round of play, Carlsen needed to defeat GM Hikaru...
Sixteen-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round five of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, becoming the youngest player ever to defeat a reigning champion in a game of classical chess. GM Parham Maghsoodloo rem...
Turkish prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus won what GM David Howell called an "Evergreen" game in round four of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss to join a 13-way tie for second place behind GM Parham Maghsoodloo. It was mainly draws at the top, but 18-year-o...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo called GM Alireza Firouzja's bluff to take the sole lead in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, after co-leader GM Anton Demchenko succumbed to GM Arjun Erigaisi's pressure. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu took advantage of GM Boris Gelf...
Thirty-six-year-old GM Igor Kovalenko played his first tournament outside of Ukraine in three years as he made nine draws in the recent 2025 Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica-Zdroj, Poland. The world number-54 is still a soldier but revealed he was ...
GM Wesley So is back in the top-10 on the September 2025 FIDE rating list after winning the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, while 20-year-old GM Vincent Keymer has broken into the club for the first time after winning the 2025 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters...
GM Daniel Naroditsky scooped up his 31st Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize on Saturday after outpacing 119 titled players for the second week in a row. An electric 15/16 start helped the 29-year-old commentator amass an unassaila...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his fourth Freestyle Friday on August 29, moving past GM Arjun Erigaisi for the second-most in the tournament's brief history, trailing only GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Nakamura who finished second this week, half a point b...
On the day Chess.com announced several changes to Titled Tuesday, including the retirement of the late tournament, GMs Minh Le and Alexey Sarana became the last players to split the day's glory. Le was nearly perfect, scoring 10.5 points with only...
Not for the first time, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen were your Titled Tuesday winners on August 12. Nakamura defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the final round of the first tournament, winning it on tiebreaks over Bortnyk and two others. I...
GM Vladislav Artemiev, who also participated in the 2025 Esports World Cup this week, has taken home the first Freestyle Friday of August, the fourth straight week where someone won the event for the first time. The tournament still in the balance...
The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to ever win the event and, through it, earn the gr...
The last Titled Tuesdays of July saw two players, GMs Maksim Chigaev and Salem Saleh, win their first of 2025. For Chigaev, it had been nearly a decade since his previous victory on June 7, 2016, while Saleh previously won on June 28, 2022. Chigae...
Both Titled Tuesday events of July 22 were close, but in the end, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Bogdan-Daniel Deac won out. They scored 9.5 points each, beating out GMs Jeffery Xiong and Matthias Bluebaum, respectively, on tiebreaks. Both Nakamura ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has returned to the top spot in the latest edition of Bullet Brawl, two months after winning his last title. Naroditsky outpaced 105 titled players, including the second- and third-placed GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and IM Yoseph Tah...
For GM Alexey Sarana, the early Titled Tuesday tournament on July 15 was his 16th career win in the event, and his third of the year. For up-and-coming GM Sina Movahed, the late tournament was his first ever. The established player was the one ...
Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child. While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners for the July 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. Nakamura also finished third in the early tournament, and after he started out 8/8 in the late event, his 3416 Chess.com Blitz rating had set a new a...
GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to win five Freestyle Fridays on July 4 after scoring an undefeated 10/11, following his first perfect run in last week's edition. Nakamura has now gone 29 games without a loss in Freestyle Fridays, with ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, on the way to winning the 2025 UzChess Cup, has gained 12 points to rise to world number-four and Indian number-one. At Norway Chess 2025 earlier in the month, GM Fabiano Caruana gained seven points to jump back to wo...
