Four cities in two continents played over-the-board chess against one another on International Chess Day (July 20). The event, Portals x Chess.com, was a celebration of chess that connected Dublin, Ireland; Lublin, Poland; Philadelphia, U.S.A.; an...
With no decisive results after game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, tensions rise as we enter the second and potentially last game of each match. IM Divya Deshmukh held a quick draw with Black against GM Tan Zhongyi, while GM Ko...
When basketball star Victor Wembanyama (Wemby) says that it's time for a game, chess players show up! It happened last December in New York, and again on Sunday in his hometown of Le Chesnay, France. Just last week, Wemby announced the Hoop Gambit...
Nineteen-year-old IM Divya Deshmukh has reached the Semifinals of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after winning the all-Indian tiebreak clash with GM Harika Dronavalli 2-0. Divya dominated an impressive first game before Harika came very clos...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship (WSCC), the most exciting speed chess event for women in the world! Starting on August 4, the event will feature a $75,000 prize fund and the same thrilling format fans already kn...
GM Levon Aronian has been crowned the $200,000 winner of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Sunday after overcoming GM Hans Niemann 1.5-0.5 in the Final. Aronian held firm in an opposite-colored bishop ending in the first, before putting ...
GM Lei Tingjie continues her impressive run in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, scoring another clean 2-0 victory, this time with a rather convincing victory against GM Nana Dzagnidze, to climb to women's world number-two in the live ratings. Jo...
World numbers one and two Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will battle for the $100,000 third-place prize on the final day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas. Carlsen lost his first game of the day to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu but bl...
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...
GMs Lei Tingjie and Koneru Humpy struck first in their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup quarterfinal matches. Humpy's win over IM Song Yuxin was convincing if bumpy at times, while Lei confessed she played "pretty horribly" before turning things around...
GM Hans Niemann and Levon Aronian will be at least $140,000 richer when the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas comes to its conclusion on Sunday after the pair won their respective Semifinals, setting up a Final that was "written in the stars," ...
All four 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round-four tiebreaks were won by Indian players. IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy were the first to book Quarterfinals spots, defeating GMs Zhu Jiner and Alexandra Kosteniuk respectively 1.5-0.5 in th...
For the third time in seven weeks, Freestyle Friday was almost over before it started on July 18, with GM Dmitry Andreikin becoming the third player to take the tournament on a perfect 11/11 score, following GM Jeffery Xiong on June 6 and GM Hikar...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a strong field for the highly anticipated FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, scheduled to take place September 3-16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 2025 has been packed with great chess events, but many more...
A 10-hour marathon day at the $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas saw GM Levon Aronian follow up his elimination of GM Magnus Carlsen on Wednesday by knocking out GM Hikaru Nakamura 2.5-1.5 on Thursday. Aronian is joined in the S...
Second seed GM Zhu Jiner struck back with a powerful game against IM Divya Deshmukh to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round four match to tiebreaks. Chinese stars GM Lei Tingjie, GM Tan Zhongyi, and IM Song Yuxin all sealed Quarterfinal sp...
GM Levon Aronian made a statement at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Wednesday by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen 2-0 in a tiebreak showdown, keeping his chances alive of winning the $200,000 first prize, and in the process, condemning Car...
19-year-old Indian IM Divya Deshmukh has one foot in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Quarterfinals after scoring an impressive win over Chinese number-two seed GM Zhu Jiner as round four began in Batumi. The remaining three Chinese players—G...
Nineteen-year-old Dutch IM Eline Roebers set a new record in June, becoming the highest-rated woman in the history of Chess.com. Her new rating of 2932 beat GM Kateryna Lagno's previous record of 2928. ELINE IS UNSTOPPABLE! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g...
NBA superstar Victor "Wemby" Wembanyama is bringing his passion for chess back home. The San Antonio Spurs phenom is hosting a chess tournament in his hometown in France on Sunday, July 20. The French NBA sensation has already given his hometown...
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 ...
World number-four GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu headlines a star-studded preliminary list of participants signed up for the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) for the Esports World Cup (EWC), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The LCQ, scheduled for July 24-26, o...
As Chess.com's Fair Play team is shutting down more than 100,000 accounts every month for violating fair play rules, the platform is now considering new measures to combat the constant battle against cheating in online chess. A new blog post tit...
Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo...
IM Song Yuxin has joined fellow 19-year-olds IM Meruert Kamalidenova and IM Umida Omonova in round four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after knocking out GM Anna Muzychuk in round-three tiebreaks. In the six tiebreak matches only one play...
