The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors. The announcement, first reported by the Times of India on Th...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Daniel Naroditsky, and Sam Sevian are the last ones left in the Winners Bracket of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship after day one. All four players won both of their matches to stay at the top, while the other ...
Get ready for wild sacs and spectacular king hunts! The Chess.com Bughouse Chess Championship, the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships, begins on July 7 at 11 a.m. ET/17:00 CEST. With five days of competition and a $5,000 pri...
Chess.com is excited to announce our newest bot: IM Julien Song! Since launching his YouTube channel, Song has established himself as a leading chess creator, uploading tournament vlogs, educational speedruns, and unique OTB instructional videos t...
GM Pranav Venkatesh won the early June 24 edition of Titled Tuesday outright with 10 points, a half-point ahead of the winners of the previous two weeks, GMs Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen. It was the 18-year-old's third Titled Tuesday win a...
The complete field for the $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas (July 16-20) has been revealed, with most of the world's elite competing for the $200,000 first price. The event also sees the surprise inclusion of GM-elect Bibisara Assauba...
Nineteen-year-old Belgian GM Daniel Dardha is reported to have set a new world record after playing a 50-board clock simul this month, pending official approval. The young grandmaster scored 40 wins, drew seven games, and had only three losses i...
We're excited to announce the fourth Summer season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) presented by Susquehanna, one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms. In this edition, college students will battle it out in bullet and team ches...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads his home supertournament, the 2025 UzChess Cup Masters, on 4/5 after defeating GMs Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Richard Rapport, and Aravindh Chithambaram. He's trailed by half a point by GM Arjun Erigaisi and also GM Parham...
A dramatic showdown between GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Hikaru Nakamura during Saturday's Bullet Brawl culminated in Firouzja edging out Nakamura on tiebreaks, marking the first time in history that first has been decided this way. Firouzja ...
GM Hans Niemann celebrated his birthday by winning two matches to qualify for the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam next month. After winning two rounds yesterday, Niemann survived two more difficult matches against GMs Yu Yangyi and Denis Lazavik to...
While several players were battling it out in a qualifier for the rights to play in Vegas at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas, Freestyle Friday continued on with 229 participants. In what turned out to be an intense fight, two players scor...
GM Magnus Carlsen created a viral hit when he slammed the table in rage following his loss against GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The 2025 Norway Chess captured the world's attention on and off the board at a scale unlike any of the 12 previous edit...
IM Carissa Yip won the Cairns Cup 2025 on Thursday in St. Louis after drawing a dramatic final game with IM Alice Lee, who needed a win for a GM norm and tournament victory. A draw was enough for Yip to score her second GM norm instead, with a 261...
GMs Yu Yangyi, Hans Niemann, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Denis Lazavik are two steps closer to booking a spot at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas tournament, having progressed to Friday's Play-In Semifinals. Niemann, who defeated former World...
GM Magnus Carlsen tops the first-ever Freestyle Chess rating list, hitting the 2900 barrier after dominating the chess variant in his latest events. Already the world number-one in FIDE's official classical, rapid, and blitz ratings, the 3...
Round eight of the Cairns Cup 2025 has set up a dramatic final round. After putting up her fourth consecutive win, against GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva, IM Carissa Yip leads the event. She'll face her compatriot and friend, IM Alice Lee, in a bit...
Grandmasters Rasmus Svane, Denis Lazavik, Pranesh M, and Martyn Kravtsiv advanced from the Swiss stage to the knockouts in the hopes of reaching the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas tournament. In tomorrow's knockout stage, they will be joined...
A week after GMs Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on June 10, Titled Tuesday on June 17 was won by... Carlsen and Niemann. This week, Carlsen scored 10.5 points in the early event, winning by a full point ahead of GMs A...
After yet another shakeup at the Cairns Cup 2025, we have three leaders: GM Koneru Humpy, IM Carissa Yip, and IM Alice Lee. Yip defeated Humpy, while Lee took down second-place IM Alina Kashlinskaya. All three draws featured a winning advantage ...
Justin Reid moved from the Chiefs to the Saints in the offseason, but over the chessboard, nothing has changed. He confidently defended his title to become the first ever repeat winner of BlitzChamps IV, the tournament to decide the NFL's best che...
After a rest day, the players returned to the Cairns Cup 2025 ready to fight in round six. Every game was decisive, and the bloodbath left GM Koneru Humpy on top. She defeated her co-leader and countrywoman GM Harika Dronavalli, while the other co...
Players can now register for their last shot at making it to this year's Esports World Cup (EWC). Featuring a whopping $1,500,000 prize fund, the inaugural chess event in the Esports World Cup arena is attracting some of the world's strongest play...
Five-time U.S. champion GM Gata Kamsky has officially switched federations to France, marking the end of a 36-year chapter representing the United States. The transfer was confirmed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) on Monday, followi...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave were among the stars as WR Chess won the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship for a second year in a row. The greatest controversy came in the Quarterfinals, when GM Vincent Keymer's ...
