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...
An undefeated GM Sam Sevian won Titled Tuesday on December 9—his first since 2021—scoring 9.5 points to claim an outright victory ahead of five players on nine points. In that group, GM Denis Lazavik emerged from the tiebreak applicati...
GM Magnus Carlsen lost the first game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, but then won on demand with Black to force tiebreaks. There, he won both blitz games and already clinched the 2025 Freestyle Chess Gran...
Fourteen-year-old Turkish chess prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has beaten 35-year-old world number 15 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-2.5 in Clash of Generations II. Victory in the six-game classical match in the Monte Carlo Chess Club saw Erdogmus ...
On his 20th birthday, GM Javokhir Sindarov finished at the top of the Group Stage with 5.5/7 in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa. In round one, he won the Game of the Day against GM Magnus Carlsen. In second and third were GMs...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is now one title away from securing a landmark 50 Bullet Brawl wins after he won December's first arena while joking about his relative age to the rest of the field. Nakamura scored 53.5/63 for a total score of 180 and barely pu...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov had already won the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament with a day to spare, and all draws in the final round meant he finished two points clear on 7.5/9. He made a solid draw against GM Pavel Eljanov, while second-...
No one could have predicted that Samay Raina, one of the lowest-rated players in the field, would win SuperPogChamps. But the comedian had the last laugh when he defeated Andrea Botez and Sardoche in the Championship Bracket to take the crown. I...
