Three-time U.S. Champion Wesley So beat 2018 Champion Sam Shankland to take the sole lead in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship on 2.5/3. He's trailed by half a point by GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, who made quiet draws with the black piec...
GM Jose Martinez of Mexico, IM Mai Narva of Estonia, and IM Faustino Oro of Argentina emerged winners of the Men, Women, and U21 sections, respectively, of the month-long 2025 GCL Contenders held on the Chess.com platform. They all qualified as Am...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on October 14, his third of the Autumn Split and first since the recent birth of his son, leading commentator GM David Howell to dub the champion "Daddy Carlsen." Carlsen flirted with a perfect score after reac...
The featured match in the third week of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) saw IM Roman Pyrih escape from two lost positions to score a perfect 4-0 and lead his Texas Tech University (TTU) chess team to their first victory of the season. It was a t...
WFM Alexandra Botez is best known for her career as a chess content creator and streamer, but now she's also entering game development with the launch of her first videogame. Co-produced with indie studio Millions of Monsters, Chess Arena reimagin...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Shankland joined GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in a four-way tie for the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead on 1.5/2 after scoring the only wins in round two. So beat his old college roommate GM Ray Robson while S...
Former world champion Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the live finals of the Speed Chess Championship in 2024. Both players look ready to return this year, as they began the 2025 edition with decisive victories against grandmasters ...
Thirty-two players, including top GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, and Alireza Firouzja, have qualified for the inaugural 2025 Comet Open main event. Next weekend, over two days of playoffs, the players will compete for their s...
A Dutch teenager has been given a three-year ban, with one year suspended, by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) after he was caught with a mobile phone hidden in his sock during a tournament in the Netherlands last year. The de...
GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed t...
The former world junior champion GM Jeffery Xiong rocketed to his first Bullet Brawl title on Saturday ahead of 148 other titled players after playing the unorthodox Orangutan Opening in most of his games with White. Xiong accrued a total score ...
Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov dominated to win 2025 Clutch Chess: The Legends with two games to spare, 30 years to the day after clinching victory over GM Viswanathan Anand in the 1995 World Chess Championship match. Anand hadn't won a ...
Vtom, coached by NM Robert Ramirez, won the U2000 round-robin in CoachChamps 2025 with a round to spare and a final score of 6/7. He went on a perfect run of 6/6, only losing his last game after already clinching the tournament and victory for his...
GM Arjun Erigaisi, who won three straight Freestyle Fridays in February and March, finally got back in the win column in the tournament on October 10 for his long-awaited fourth victory. The undefeated Arjun's 9.5 points were enough to win outrigh...
Rejoice, daily chess fans: The 2026 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship (DCC) is now open for registration! It will soon be that time again for one of the biggest events of the Chess.com calendar. But even if you've never played daily chess before,...
The Ukrainian Open Team and the Polish Women's team lead the 2025 European Team Championships after round five of the nine-round event. The tournament is a semi-annual competition between European nations and a good test for countries to test line...
GM Viswanathan Anand had over a minute on his clock in a winning position but lost on time to GM Garry Kasparov as day two of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends got off to the worst possible start for the Indian legend. Kasparov went on to dominat...
KiriyamaKazuo, coached by IM David Pruess, won the u1600 tournament of CoachChamps 2025 with 6/7. With only one loss in round four, against frank, coached by WGM Dina Belenkaya, he otherwise kept control throughout the entire event. At the top o...
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Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov leads 15th World Champion Viswanathan Anand 2.5-1.5 after day one of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends, a three-day clash taking place 30 years after their world championship match. After two draws in rapid che...
QQQ1M, IM Levy Rozman's student, dominated the second day of CoachChamps 2025, which featured the rating range of improvers between 800 and 1199. Playing quickly, the Algerian youngster and GothamChess fan—who displays his coach in his profi...
Nabbollini, student of GM Arturs Neiksans, won the Under 800 round-robin tournament in the inaugural CoachChamps 2025. Though he won with a 5.5/7 score, it wasn't totally smooth sailing. Hhart10k, IM Levy Rozman's student, beat him in the penultim...
GM Alireza Firouzja won a tense Titled Tuesday on October 7, taking it on tiebreaks ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda after they all posted a 9.5/11 score. GM Xiao Tong, a 16-year old grandmaster rated over 3100 in Chess.com...
WFM Anna Cramling blundered a piece against 12-year-old Zac Chua from Canada and didn't realize until three moves later, but she shrugged off that slip-up to win the sixth episode of Kids vs. Stars 2.5-1.5. "I would rather go skydiving!" she said ...
In the spring season of the Collegiate Chess League, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) lost to St. Louis University (SLU) in the Finals, to finish in second place. This year they are looking for more and are off to a good start, winning their fi...
