This month only, Chess.com and Jagex have teamed up to bring you five limited-edition bots, a lineup of the most famous (and infamous) characters in all of Gielinor! As Old School RuneScape fans anxiously await the Sailing update coming on Novembe...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro, the youngest participant in the 2025 FIDE World Cup, is among the 20 players who advance to round two after tiebreaks. He defeated GM Ante Brkic 5-3 in one of the longest matches. The matchups only get harder ...
GM Victor Mikhalevski of Israel won the 50+ section at the FIDE World Senior Championships in Gallipoli, Italy, on Saturday. IM Alexander Reprintsev of Ukraine edged out five other players on tiebreaks to win the 65+ group. In the Women's sections...
GothamChess vs. The World has blown past previously-established records and continues to set new ones, with now more than 200,000 players having joined in. That total is nearly 40% more than the previous record, which was set during Magnus vs. the...
Of the 78 matches in round one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, 20 will go to rapid and blitz tiebreaks on Monday. The rest have been decided in the classical portion, almost unanimously, with the favorites winning. The upset of the day was IM Shixu Wa...
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to his 14th career victory ahead of 48-time winner GM Hikaru Nakamura. Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour arena...
GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth, while W...
The favorites—including GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Jeffery Xiong, and Maxim Rodshtein on top boards—prevailed with almost no upsets in round one, game one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. GM Salem Saleh won the Game of the Day with a brillian...
On a Halloween edition of Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a victory on October 31 after missing the past few tournaments. Nakamura was 1.5 points behind the lead after five rounds, but with the tenacity akin to a horror movie anta...
GM Fabiano Caruana won an incredibly close match against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals, where he will face GM Magnus Carlsen. Only the bullet segment separated the two players, with Caruana b...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at one point led by 10 points before finishing with a 17.5-10.5 score against GM Anish Giri to cruise into the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Nepomniachtchi called it, "some really good training in the Catalan w...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with two games to spare. He defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju two times, and then also beat GM Fabiano Caruana twice, to win the event and earn the $120,000 first prize, all be...
In a new study, researchers at Google DeepMind have created an AI system capable of generating creative chess puzzles, some of which impressed experts in chess compositions. The 75-page study titled "Generative Chess Puzzles," was led by Google'...
The reigning champions of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL), Saint Louis University (SLU), have a difficult path to defending their title. They have lost a match already, and have not yet played the other finalist from last season, the Univer...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown after day two. The world number-one won both games in both matches against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, so that he was still in first even with two losses...
The field for the legendary 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters was unveiled today, featuring an exciting young line-up headlined by the reigning World Champion, 19-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju. At the other end of the spectrum is 31-year-old GM Anish Giri...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
Girls who start with the same age and rating as boys will continue to play chess at a similar rate and at a similar level as those boys, especially in areas where participation is more gender-balanced. A new study, published in Chance and co-funde...
We're excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Crazyhouse Chess Championship starts on November 6 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Featuring a variant where initiative is everything, get ready for...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with four points out of a possible six on day one. After losing game one against GM Magnus Carlsen, he had the best day, scoring three wins and two draws in his remain...
GM Hans Niemann demolished former World Champion Ding Liren 18-6 to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Ding's first win came in game 12, when a 10-1 scoreline had already made a comeback all but impossible. Niemann will now fac...
SuperChess, the Romanian club with an in-form world champion on top board, won the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday. Scoring an undefeated 4/5, GM Gukesh Dommaraju is back in the world's top 10. Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won t...
GM Javokhir Sindarov collected his first Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize after outpacing seven challengers on Saturday. Sindarov posted a score of 159 and eclipsed IM Yoseph Taher, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and IM Reza Mahdavi for ...
GM Fabiano Caruana and IM Carissa Yip repeated their U.S. Championship victories once again on Friday in St. Louis. Caruana was the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to win four consecutive U.S. titles, earning $67,000, while Yip has now won it ...
IM Renato Terry won Freestyle Friday on October 24 by taking his last six games, breaking a tie with GM Jules Moussard in the final round by winning head-to-head with Black. The win was Terry's second in Freestyle Friday, the first coming back in ...
