Chess will once again be a part of the world's biggest esports festival, with GM Magnus Carlsen returning to defend his title. The Esports World Cup Chess Finals will take place from August 11 to 15 with a new home in Paris, France, and feature a ...
GM Andy Woodward fought back valiantly to defeat GM Andrew Tang in the Grand Final Reset and deny him the title for the third year in a row in the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship 2026, which concluded on Friday, June 19. After losing to Tang in...
A Magnus Carlsen game from 2010 and his famous queen sacrifice from the 2016 World Championship match helped shape the central chess battle in The Nation's Gambit, a new Norwegian political thriller, in which every captured piece costs a human lif...
"It's like a dream!" said Dragon Chilling captain GM Ni Hua as the Chinese team added 2026 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship gold medals to their earlier victory in rapid chess. The team, led by GM Ding Liren, beat GM Hans Niemann's Endgame....
GM Hikaru Nakamura's perfect record in Bullet Brawl in 2026 has finally come to an end courtesy of an exceptional performance by the 17-year-old GM Ediz Gurel. Gurel recorded one of the all-time greatest starts with 17 consecutive wins and clinche...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back from four losses in a row to win his first eight blitz games and wasn't even the highest scorer as WR Chess cruised to victory in Pool A and then eased through to the Quarterfinals of the FIDE World Blitz Team Champi...
IM Renato Terry, GM Matthias Bluebaum, and IM Reza Mahdavi were the deserving winners of the hard-fought 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 18. The all-time leaderboard pacesetter Terry had to overcome the five-time world champion GM Magnus Carlsen ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is your Freestyle Friday winner for June 19, winning six games in a row at one point to claim the tournament outright on nine points, his second of the year and third overall. Tiebreaks separated second-place IM Reza Mahdavi ...
GM Ding Liren won in the final round as Dragon Chilling clinched the 2026 World Rapid Team Championship on tiebreaks ahead of silver medalists Team MGD1 (led by GM Arjun Erigaisi) and bronze medalists Hexamind Chess Team (GM Alireza Firouzja). Whe...
GM Ding Liren lost to GM Richard Rapport in 177 moves, but Dragon Chilling won the match, took the sole lead, and didn't relinquish it as the team remained unbeaten on day two of the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships. Team MGD1 moved...
GM Richard Rapport's Kazchess and GM Ding Liren's Dragon Chilling are the only teams on a perfect 8/8 after day one of the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships in Hong Kong. All the other favorites suffered defeat, with top-seed WR...
GM Alexey Sarana won Titled Tuesday on June 16 with a nearly perfect performance, scoring 10.5/11, with his only non-victory a draw against GM Magnus Carlsen in round eight. Carlsen, playing the full tournament for the first time in weeks, wasn't ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the inaugural 2026 ASEAN E-Sports Chess Cup on June 13 and the $8,500 first prize. After finishing at the top of Group A, he went on to defeat GM Andrey Esipenko 2-1 in the Championship Final. The event took place at the Fou...
GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Le Quang Liem, Matthias Bluebaum, Volodar Murzin and Christopher Yoo are among the players who secured their spots in the inaugural Esports Nations Cup Finals, with at least 82 countries and territories set to be repres...
GM Mukhiddin Madaminov won the 2026 UzChess Cup Masters and $20,000 on June 15 after defeating GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov 2-0 in blitz tiebreaks. Both players finished the round-robin with 5.5/9, with three grandmasters a half-point behind: Ian N...
In 2024, CM Odin Blikra Vea and Askild Bryn played 383 five-minute blitz games over more than 61 hours to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. In a new Chess.com documentary, the Norwegian duo revisits the highs, halluci...
You're smarter than you think, and we can prove it. You've probably played more brilliant moves than you remember—and you can now review them all with our new advanced stats feature! Diamond members can now relive their greatest moments and ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura, the undisputed king of Bullet Brawl, pulled off another comprehensive victory on Saturday, gaining his 10th title in as many appearances in 2026. Nakamura finished with 182 points, 42 points clear of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and a...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Dmitry Andreikin, and Aravindh Chithambaram emerged with the best tiebreaks to win the 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 11. It was a day of tiebreakers, as both the first and third events finished with five-way ties atop ...
GM Pranav Venkatesh overcame losses in the second and fourth rounds in Freestyle Friday on June 12 to win all his other games, take first place outright, and pass GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship (FFC) standings....
The Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) has been suspended from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) after failing to comply with a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that required the CFR to cease organizing chess activities in Russian...
GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov leads the 2026 UzChess Cup after five hard-fought rounds, where we have seen more decisive games than draws. After losing in round two against GM Hans Niemann, the Uzbek grandmaster has won three games in a row against GMs M...
Chess stepped further into the mainstream spotlight on Saturday as Grandmasters, the new docuseries featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and other leading figures of the game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda impressively won Titled Tuesday on June 9 with a score of 10/11. He becomes the second player to win the new first-place prize of $2,500, and also the second player, after GM Javokhir Sindarov, to win three Titled Tuesda...
Get ready for blazing tactics and electrifying swindles! The next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships is coming with the speediest of variants. The Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship takes place from June 18 to 19 and features a $...
