Almost a decade on from his viral victories against Leela Chess in ultrabullet, GM Andrew Tang has proven he is the quickest player on Chess.com for the second year in a row following a successful title defense in the 2025 Chess.com Hyperbullet Ch...
Round five of Norway Chess 2025 featured three classical draws followed by three armageddon wins. GM Magnus Carlsen won the armageddon game with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana to extend his lead. GM Hikaru Nakamura had winning chances in both th...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Vincent Keymer advanced to the Semifinals of the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. The day started with an awkward setup as IM Danny Rensch drew position 73 for the second round of the...
In a decision by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) published on Monday, 43-year-old Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs will lose his international master title and his ban from attending FIDE-rated events has been extended from five ye...
Welcome to Freestyle Friday! In the inaugural edition of this event, 476 players took their shot at becoming its first champion, a very auspicious sign in what is sure to become a can't-miss part of every week for players, spectators, and Freestyl...
Both Titled Tuesday events of December 3 went down to the wire, with GM Denis Lazavik emerging ahead of GMs Javokhir Sindarov and Matthias Bluebaum in the early tournament on tiebreaks, and GM Hikaru Nakamura getting the tiebreak over GM Alireza F...
The PBG Alaskan Knights celebrated a dream start to the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season by winning their first three matches in the round-robin stage. Two were scheduled on Friday when the Knights defeated both the American Gambi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third in the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating GM Hans Niemann in the consolation match 21-9. He won all three segments, making his greatest gains in the 3+1 and 1+1 segments. Nakamura earns $13,500 for winn...
Reigning World Champion Ju Wenjun and three-time Women's World Blitz Champion Kateryna Lagno will face each other in the Semifinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Ju defeated IM Alice Lee 9.5-5.5, while Lagno eliminated ...
Kansas City Chiefs' safety Justin Reid was crowned the winner of BlitzChamps III after sweeping Cardinals' quarterback Kyler Murray 2-0 in the Grand Final of an eight-player double-elimination bracket on Wednesday. Outplaying BlitzChamps I winner ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. On the white side of the Berlin Defense, he dispatched GM Vidit Gujrathi. Draws on the remaining three boards leave GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana ...
Day one of the 2024 American Cup saw a whopping 13 decisive games across the Open and Women's tournaments in St. Louis on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana got off to a 2-0 start against GM Grigoriy Oparin, while GM Wesley So is the only other player ...
Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan stepped up to the challenge and earned locker-room bragging rights after taking out the first edition of SlugChamps on Tuesday. In a high-octane final against shortstop Daniel Schneemann, Kwan scored 2.5/...
Bullet Brawl's undisputed king, GM Hikaru Nakamura, secured his 15th title and $1,000 in the latest edition of the tournament, finishing on 260 points with 71 wins, two draws, and eight losses. A 27-game streak, which included wins over chess pers...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Levon Aronian move on to the Winners Bracket in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after winning their matches on the first day. Carlsen and Caruana beat the...
The 17-year-old IM Eline Roebers gained her first Dutch Women's Championship on Thursday in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in an event disrupted by a row over a freak "code red" storm that resulted in one player dropping out. Roebers won a double round...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won on demand with the white pieces against GM Fabiano Caruana on the last day of Norway Chess 2023, ousting the tournament leader and winning the prestigious title for the first time. This is also the first time in the last fiv...
The Norway Gnomes and Spanish Maniac Shrimps defeated the Brazil Capybaras and Charlotte Cobras, respectively, to kick off week three in the Pro Chess League. The Norway Gnomes pulled off a shocking comeback after losing the first two rounds of ...
GM Levon Aronian nearly extended his lead with a win on Wednesday in the WR Chess Masters 2023, but GM Wesley So escaped the danger and drew the game. With draws in all five games of round six, leaving the order of the standings unchanged, Aronian...
GMs Daniil Dubov and Magnus Carlsen won the November 29 editions of Titled Tuesday. Dubov scored 10.5/11 in the early tournament, winning by 1.5 points, while Carlsen scored 9.5 and outlasted GM Vladimir Fedoseev on tiebreaks. Also making an imp...
The first day of blitz games at the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz saw quick chess superstars GM Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Levon Aronian pick up the most points in a day of decisive results, tactical brawls, and a loss by an illeg...
"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess. The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with a high-energy quarterfinal in which GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated an in-form GM-elect Mahammad Muradli 17-11. Erigaisi managed to build a one-point lead in the 5+1 segment but went t...
Wednesday's games of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade saw GM Richard Rapport win with the white pieces against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, whereas the game between GM Anish Giri and GM Dmitry Andreikin ended in a draw after wild complicati...
Wow! The last round of the FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade pool phase turned out to be everything we could have hoped for or more. In Group A, GM Dmitry Andreikin emerged as the victor after winning a turbulent game. GM Anish Giri punched his tic...
