GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games, with six rounds left in the Swiss portion. GM Magnus Carlsen, who dominated the rapid world champions...
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...
GM Hou Yifan's 20-move win over GM Kateryna Lagno gave GM Fabiano Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers a spot in the Final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 despite the team suffering defeat. Their key rivals, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's upGrad ...
The Collegiate Chess League (CCL) is back for another thrilling season, and registrations for Spring 2026 are officially open! Once again, the CCL will boast a $25,000 prize fund and the exciting four vs. four team format that fans and players lov...
Chess.com's very own Chief Chess Officer (and commentator extraordinaire, bestselling author, and more) IM Danny Rensch will be playing Santa Claus of sorts in a special, Christmas-themed stream on December 23 starting at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT.&nbs...
GM Alireza Firouzja won a dramatic game against GM Viswanathan Anand as the Triveni Continental Kings beat the Ganges Grandmasters 14-5 to cruise into the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 Final. Who they face will be decided on Monday's fina...
GM Jeffery Xiong joined Bullet Brawl's illustrious two-time winners' 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 fewer than ...
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...
