After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots in round two...
Kids vs. Stars will return for its fifth edition on July 9, starting at 12 p.m. ET / 18:00 CEST / 9:30 p.m. IST. This time, world-class commentator GM David Howell will take on four young prodigies to try to keep the stars' win streak running. R...
GM Magnus Carlsen struggled on the final day but still won the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare and a 2.5-point margin. GM Wesley So took second place after winning a crazy game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the fin...
The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup wasn't the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107 participants fr...
Nine-year-old CM Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore has added another milestone to his young chess career by sensationally scoring his first international master (IM) norm at the 10th Marina Viva Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. Ashwath is just the ...
24 hours after winning his fifth Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Chess.com's servers to capture his 43rd Bullet Brawl title in a commanding fashion. Nakamura and GM Andrew Tang broke away from the 135-strong field on Saturday; how...
GM Magnus Carlsen started day four of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz trailing World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by four points but ended the day two points ahead after scoring 7.5/9 while Gukesh crashed to 1.5/9. GM Jan-Krzysztof Dud...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju increased his lead over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to three points and kept a four-point gap to GM Magnus Carlsen as he made two draws and scored a dominant win over GM Wesley So to score 14/18 in the rapid section ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to win five Freestyle Fridays on July 4 after scoring an undefeated 10/11, following his first perfect run in last week's edition. Nakamura has now gone 29 games without a loss in Freestyle Fridays, with ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju has done it again, beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen from a losing position to take the sole lead in the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz. "Now we can question Magnus' domination," said 13th World Ch...
Armenian chess is in mourning following the passing of GM Tigran Nalbandian, a beloved coach and player who played a central role in the rise of chess in his nation over the last two decades. Nalbandian died of a heart attack last week in ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and world number-one Magnus Carlsen will meet again on day two of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz after ending day one tied for the lead on 4/6 together with GMs Wesley So and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Guke...
With summer now in full swing (in the northern hemisphere), the July 1 Titled Tuesday events were both heated competitions, each ending in a three-way tie. After tiebreaks, GM Pranav Venkatesh and GM Parham Maghsoodloo emerged as the victors. GM P...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, on the way to winning the 2025 UzChess Cup, has gained 12 points to rise to world number-four and Indian number-one. At Norway Chess 2025 earlier in the month, GM Fabiano Caruana gained seven points to jump back to wo...
The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has upheld the US Chess Federation's one-year suspension of GM Christopher Yoo, and extended it to a global level, barring him from all FIDE-rated events until November. In addition, the 18-year-...
GM Hikaru Nakamura cruised to victory in Saturday's Bullet Brawl, posting a score of 184 to finish 40 points ahead of IM Renato Terry and two more ahead of GM Eric Hansen. The win, which earned Nakamura $400, increased his career titles to 42, eig...
GM Alireza Firouzja defended his title as the bullet chess champion by defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 19.5-5.5 in the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship Grand Final. It was a dominant showing, as the French number-one won every match by a margin of 10...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is Indian number-one and world number-four after a stunning comeback saw him beat GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the final rounds before winning the 2025 UzChess Cup Masters in tiebreaks over GM Javokh...
Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by 10 points or more, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5. There are three players in the ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on June 27 with a perfect 11/11 score, matching the feat accomplished three weeks ago by GM Jeffery Xiong. In the 23rd Freestyle Friday held so far, Nakamura earned his fourth victory, breaking a tie with GM...
India's latest chess sensation, CM Aarit Kapil, is only nine years old. This week, he came within inches of defeating none other than world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday. The game ended in a dramatic draw, but the perf...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky will meet in the Winners Final of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. Firouzja was a runaway train against GM Nihal Sarin, winning 17.5-6.5, while it took Naroditsky 32 games, with tiebreaks, to defeat GM...
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...
