GM Magnus Carlsen is off to a fast start in Titled Tuesday in 2026, winning the January 6 tournament with a 9.5/11 score. He came out ahead of second-place GM Vincent Keymer and third-place GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tiebreaks. Duda, Keymer, and Car...
We’re excited to announce the first event of the 2026 Chess.com Community Championships. The 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship takes place on January 15 and 16, starting at 1 p.m. ET/19:00 CET, and features a $5,000 prize fund. The event w...
2025 was an eventful year for chess, and we surely had a lot to celebrate! We were lucky enough to see chess take over the world stage at the Esports World Cup, witness viral table-banging moments, gasp at brilliant sacrifices, and more. We aske...
The first 16 players have been determined for the 2026 Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot tournament (“Total Chess 2026 Pilot”), FIDE and Norway Chess announced on Tuesday. This year's event is a test run for the 2027 inaugural ...
What happens when two of the world's biggest creators collide? You're about to find out with the upcoming Gotham vs. Song match, taking place in Madrid, Spain from January 15 to 18. IMs Levy Rozman and Julien Song will compete in a series of 14 ga...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as Bullet Brawl's first half-centurion on Saturday after he won the first edition of 2026 and took home the $400 first prize. In a field of 177 titled players, which included 13 players with ratings over 3100, N...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Freestyle Friday four times in 2025, and he has started 2026 on the right foot by winning the January 2 edition. He did not go wire-to-wire, losing in rounds three and nine, but it was enough to win on tiebreaks over GM Matth...
GMs Tuan Minh Le, Hikaru Nakamura and Jose Martinez celebrated the new year by winning the first three 3 0 Thursday tournaments of 2026. Le overcame back-to-back losses to catch up and win the first event with a 9/11 score. Nakamura dominated the ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has marched into 2026 with 19 extra rating points after a tremendous performance in the 2025 London Chess Classic in December. Abdusattorov recovered the 18 points he lost at the 2025 FIDE World Cup with interest, courtesy...
The Naroditsky Memorial and Fellowship Fund has surpassed $1 million, marking a major milestone in efforts to honor the legacy of GM Daniel Naroditsky. The grandmaster tragically passed away at the age of 29 on October 19. In November, the Charl...
Freestyle Chess has informed Chess.com that the Open Qualifiers for the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour are cancelled. We have no more information at this time, but Freestyle Chess has promised that a press release is coming in th...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship by defeating GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2.5-1.5 in the final match. Along with €70,000, he earned his ninth world blitz title and 20th world championship title across all th...
GM Vincent Keymer took home the last Titled Tuesday of 2025 on December 30, scoring 10/11 to become the first player to reach a double-digit score in the tournament since November 18. Only two players could win entering the final round, and Keymer...
We're excited to announce the 2026 cycle of the Chess.com Community Championships! The series kicks off in January with the Chess.com Puzzles Championship and will feature 12 events in total, with a $37,500 prize fund. As always, the Championshi...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games and six rounds left in the Swiss portion. GM Magnus Carlsen, who dominated the rapid world championshi...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his sixth world rapid championship title after winning the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship a full point ahead of the field with 10.5/13. It's his 19th world championship title across three time controls and he ea...
German candidate and GM Matthias Bluebaum has etched his name into the annals of Bullet Brawl history after surging at the tail end of Saturday's event to win his maiden title. Bluebaum kept in contention for the $400 first prize with a nine-gam...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Hans Niemann lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after day two with 7.5 points out of nine games. A half-point behind are four players: GM Magnus Carlsen, who bounced back from losing against Artemiev in ro...
GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac profited the most from the absence of top GMs as he won the post-Christmas Freestyle Friday and its $400 first prize. The 24-year-old Romanian grandmaster edged out IM Eray Kilic and GM Jeffery Xiong on tiebreaks after all th...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Vladislav Artemiev lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with 4.5 points out of five games on the first day. The group of 15 players that trails them by ...
On January 1, we will make some notable changes to vacation time for in Daily Chess, reducing the amount of vacation time available and simplifying the system. Vacation time is an important part of daily games on Chess.com. It allows players to ...
GM Magnus Carlsen says he enters the World Rapid & Blitz Championship with motivation and a determination to "give it my all" after several months of doubts over whether he would even take part in the events at all. The first day of the 2025...
GM Fabiano Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers have won the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 with a 2-0 sweep in the Final, where GM Anish Giri and Leon Luke Mendonca starred with 2/2. GM Alireza Firouzja at times fought a lone battle as the Triveni ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won a dramatic Titled Tuesday on December 23, just barely winning on tiebreaks ahead of GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. It was Duda's first win in the event since February 18, and he got there by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in the...
GM Jonathan Hawkins, a two-time British Champion, author, and coach, passed away on Monday at the age of 42 after losing the battle with a rare form of cancer. His passing came just a week after GM Daniel Gormally had launched an appeal to help Ha...
