An incredible weekend for Dutch GM Anish Giri ended with him adding victory with Black over leader GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to his win over World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju the day before. Abdusattorov still leads the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Mas...
GM Hikaru Nakamura tightened his iron grip over the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday after winning his fourth straight title of 2026. In this week's edition, Nakamura timed his streaks well and posted a score of 165 after chasing down Turkish phenom...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov felt he played his best game yet as he defeated GM Vincent Keymer with Black to take a one-point lead as we cross the halfway mark of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju slumped to ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov took advantage of a heartbreaking blunder in an equal position by World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to take the sole lead in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters on 4.5/6. GM Javokhir Sindarov is now half a point behind in...
The tournament leaders going into the final round of all three 3 0 Thursday tournaments on January 22 all lost their games and their leads. The chaotic day ended with GM Alexey Sarana winning a tournament for the third straight week, GM Hikaru Nak...
GM Pranav Venkatesh is now a Freestyle Friday victor, taking his first tournament on January 23 with a 9.5/11 score. Coming in second place was GM Martin Kravtsiv, followed by GM Nodirbek Yakkuboev in third and GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov in fourth, wh...
GM Daniel Naroditsky's death has been ruled accidental and likely the result of an underlying medical condition, according to a report released this week by the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office in North Carolina. The popular U....
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura treated chess fans in Barcelona with fascinating insight and entertainment when they appeared for a discussion about chess and played a blindfold game, expertly commented on by none other than IM Levy Rozman....
GM Javokhir Sindarov looked to have spoiled a win against 14-year-old GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus but went on to grind out a 74-move victory that saw him join GMs Hans Niemann and Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters lead. GM Vlad...
GM Hans Niemann scored a brilliant win over GM Aravindh Chithambaram to join GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the lead of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters on three points out of four. Abdusattorov was the first player to beat GM Thai Dai Van Nguy...
GM Magnus Carlsen needed a few rounds to get himself going in Titled Tuesday on January 20, but still ended up scoring 9.5/11 and winning the tournament outright. He has now won two of the three Titled Tuesdays of 2026 so far and his fourth of the...
We're thrilled to invite you to take part in yet another historic showdown against one of the living legends of the game! Face GM Judit Polgar, the strongest woman in history and one of the most influential players the game has ever seen, in the u...
It was the day of the underdog in Wijk aan Zee as Dutch number-two GM Jorden van Foreest beat Dutch number-one GM Anish Giri and German number-two Matthias Bluebaum did the same to German number-one GM Vincent Keymer. The winners caught GMs Nodirb...
Norway Chess, one of the world’s most prestigious chess tournaments, will enter a new era in 2026, relocating from Stavanger to Oslo after 13 consecutive years on Norway's west coast. Meanwhile, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Bibisara Assaubayeva ha...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won a pawn and ground down GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in 60 moves to join GMs Hans Niemann and Arjun Erigaisi in the early 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters lead on 1.5/2. The day's only other winner was GM Vladimir Fedoseev...
IM Levy Rozman explained that when he plays blitz, "I get very creative and my brain reacts very fast." He demonstrated those abilities by defeating IM Julien Song 6-2 in the blitz portion of their match. Combined with Rozman's 8-6 match lead...
Bullet Brawl's most prolific winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura, has started 2026 with a hat trick of victories. In Saturday's event, GM Jose Martinez built a 21-point lead, but with just over 20 minutes to go, Nakamura bolted to the finish line, not only...
World Cup winner GM Javokhir Sindarov pulled off a 78-move great escape against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to bring a dramatic first day of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters to a close. The first moves were delayed 1.5 hours by an environment...
IM Levy Rozman confessed between games that "I think my biggest strength is somehow getting it done in time scrambles." His ability with seconds on the clock saved him from losing positions in three different rapid games. After the rapid portion o...
After a wild battle to start their match in game one, IMs Levy Rozman and Julien Song played a very accurate and calm draw in their second classical game. Rozman played one of his favorite openings, the Queen's Gambit Accepted, and quickly equaliz...
GM Ray Robson won his sixth title at the 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship after defeating GM Pranav Venkatesh 5-1 in the Grand Final. Earning another $1,500, Robson has won every edition of the event except for last year, when GM Andy Woodward ...
GMs Alexey Sarana and Denis Lazavik kept the ball rolling from last week's 3 0 Thursday victories and won the first and second tournaments outright on January 15. In the third event, GM Jeffery Xiong picked up his first victory after edging out GM...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won Freestyle Friday on January 16, grabbing his opportunity at a mate-in-two in the final round to take the tournament outright with 9.5 points. IM Renato Terry helped by beating the one player who had been tied with Nepomni...
The match between two of the most popular chess streamers in the world, IMs Levy Rozman and Julien Song, got off to a hard-fought start as both sides missed wins in time pressure before the game ended in a draw. The players shook hands b...
Five-time Puzzles Champion GM Ray Robson was first to qualify for the eight-player Knockout Finals of the 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship, and posted the day's best score of 62. He was joined by GMs Pranav Venkatesh, Jeffery Xiong, and Mitrabh...
