GM Jeffery Xiong joined Bullet Brawl's illustrious two-time winner's club after outlasting GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and finishing atop Saturday's event. The 25-year-old American flirted with danger during the two-hour arena and defeated no less than 3...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's Fyers American Gambits beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's upGrad Mumba Masters 16-1 was the standout result of day seven of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. That meant the Mumba Masters failed to catch the leaders,...
Queen of Chess, a new documentary about the legendary GM Judit Polgar, has been selected for the prestigious 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Days after the announcement, it was also revealed that streaming giant Netflix has acquired the rights and wi...
The rivals of GM Alireza Firouzja finally struck back on day six, with GM Fabiano Caruana ending a five-game winning streak before Firouzja also lost to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Triveni Continental Kings still won that second match to lead...
GM Magnus Carlsen is not inevitable but, more often than not, he seems to be. The December 19 edition of Freestyle Friday was no exception, as Carlsen won his last four games in a come-from-behind victory. Carlsen won with 9.5 points, outlast...
IM Karina Ambartsumova has won a prize as the top woman in a 3 0 Thursday all six weeks since the event began, while IM Renato Terry has won one of the three weekly tournaments for each of the last five weeks. Both players continued their impressi...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved the lifting of sanctions on Russia and Belarus following an online General Assembly, but the proceedings have been criticized by several federations, and the world governing chess body could f...
There's no stopping for GM Alireza Firouzja, who won his fifth game in a row on Thursday at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025, taking down his compatriot GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. With draws on all other boards, this game helped Triveni ...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his fourth consecutive game in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 as he took down GM Viswanathan Anand to help Triveni Continental Kings to an 11-6 bounce-back win over the Ganges Grandmasters. That came despite GM ...
Another year has gone by, and chess keeps getting bigger and bigger! Coming from a sequence of record-breaking years for chess, it was hard to believe that 2025 could be even better. But after a year of dramatic events, newsworthy viral moments, a...
Twelve-year-old Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro is one step closer to making history by becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster. On Tuesday, he scored another fantastic performance and achieved his second norm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
GM Viswanathan Anand's win over GM Gukesh Dommaraju helped the Ganges Grandmasters join a four-way tie for the lead in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. Both leading teams lost, despite big wins on top board for GM Alireza Firouzja, over...
By his own admission, it wasn't pretty, but GM Magnus Carlsen got the job done in Titled Tuesday on December 16, scoring 9.5 points to win outright despite a loss in the second round and a worse final position in the 11th round as he successfully ...
GM Alireza Firouzja took down World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju as Triveni Continental Kings won 15-3 to stay perfect on day two of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. Other team leaders had mixed days. GM Hikaru Nakamura beat GM Maxime Vach...
With 2026 at our doorstep, we know that many of our members are making chess-related New Year's resolutions. Some might want to break their rating record, some might just be looking to play more. Regardless of your goals, we're here to help! The...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan welcomed the birth of a healthy baby boy last week, the couple has confirmed. Nakamura, who first revealed that they were expecting during a Kick livestream in July, shared...
GM Alireza Firouzja played a brilliant sacrifice to defeat GM Fabiano Caruana while GM Wei Yi took down GM Anish Giri as two-time Tech Mahindra Global Chess League champions Triveni Continental Kings began season three with a win. Of the world's t...
GM Ediz Gurel added an eighth Bullet Brawl title to his ever-growing trophy cabinet on Saturday after piecing together a performance that saw him take the two-hour titled arena by a margin of 12 points. The Turkish phenom suffered only minor hiccu...
IM Renato Terry won yet another 3 0 Thursday tournament on December 11, his fourth consecutive week winning one of the three tournaments. Terry's success came in the third event of the day, following victories by GMs Sina Movahed and Jose Martinez...
FM Tymur Keleberda was crowned the 2025 Chess.com Fog Of War champion after defeating IM Nhat Minh To in a tense Grand Final and subsequent Grand Final in the last event of the Community Championship Series for the year. Keleberda's event was ne...
Freestyle Friday of late has often been dominated by two young players, 19-year-old Indian GM Pranesh M and 15-year-old Iranian GM Sina Movahed, and December 12 was no different. Pranesh won this week's tournament on 9.5/11, defeating Movahed in a...
Norway Chess and the International Chess Federation (FIDE) have announced the qualification paths for the 24-player October 2026 pilot event of the Total Chess World Championship Tour. Reigning World Champions Gukesh Dommaraju and Ju Wenjun are th...
GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals to win the $200,000 first prize. Following up on his win in Las Vegas over the summer, it's his second Grand Slam win in a row. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian will contest the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, where first place comes with $200,000. Carlsen won a close semifinal match against GM Javokhir Sindarov, who won on demand once and ne...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu as the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2025, securing him a spot for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura is also destined to clinch the final ratin...
