The Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 Season Playoffs are upon us, and you can join in on the excitement by predicting who wins! Will SLU defend their championship title, or will Mizzou get their revenge? Will UT Dallas earn their first ch...
You've seen them crawling, and now it's time to see them running! The strongest PogChamps participants in history are gathering to take on new challengers in SuperPogChamps from December 2 to 5. Former chess novices from past PogChamps and strong ...
Second-seed GM Arjun Erigaisi is the only official top-10 player remaining in the 2025 FIDE World Cup after beating GM Peter Leko 2-0 in round-four tiebreaks. GM Daniil Dubov took down 2023 runner-up GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, while GM Andrey E...
The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will reach its conclusion in South Africa next month, and one key question is whether anyone can stop GM Magnus Carlsen from taking the title as the first-ever Freestyle Chess Champion. The fifth an...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) confirmed on Tuesday that they have formally filed a complaint against GM Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th world champion, referring him to the Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) for investigation into t...
GM Alexander Donchenko followed up his win over GM Anish Giri by knocking out German teammate GM Matthias Bluebaum to reach the Last 16 of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. He's joined by GMs Jose Martinez and Levon Aronian, who gave GMs Alexey Sarana and ...
Not sure what chess opening you should play next? You can now take our new Opening Recommendation Quiz and find out! Answer seven simple questions, and we'll suggest an opening that best fits your playing style, level, and preferences. Find Your...
Eleven was the number of the day, with GM Magnus Carlsen winning the 11th Titled Tuesday of the current season on November 11 by scoring a perfect 11/11. In the last four rounds, he toppled a quartet of top rivals in GMs Hans Niemann, Alireza Firo...
Two-time World Cup winner GM Levon Aronian smoothly beat GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek as round four of the 2025 FIDE World Cup began in Goa. The day's only other winner was GM Jose Martinez, who followed a 2-0 victory over GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with a...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has all but secured his place in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, after winning the 1st Annual Washington Dulles Open over the weekend—a five-round Swiss event that provided the final classical games he needed to meet ...
No team has had a better run in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) this season than the University of Texas, Dallas. They've defeated both of last season's finalists, and raced out to a perfect 6-0 start. In contrast, Texas Tech University has had ...
We're excited to announce 3 0 Thursday (three-oh-Thursday), our new weekly prize event for titled players! The event will feature a 3+0 time control, the most popular among titled players on our website. Every Thursday, titled players can now play...
GM Yasser Seirawan has described Crazyhouse as "one-person Bughouse," so it was fitting that NM Isaac Chiu, one half of the 2025 Bughouse Championship winning team, also triumphed in the 2025 Crazyhouse Championship. Chiu won the Winners Final 3-1...
Thirty-two players remain in contention to win the 2025 FIDE World Cup ahead of round four. The following players advanced after winning round-three tiebreaks on Sunday: GMs Wei Yi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Yu Yangyi, Sam Shankland...
Following his round-two exit at 2025 FIDE World Cup, GM Ediz Gurel put on a tactical exhibition to capture his sixth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Gurel's final score of 157 saw him edge out GM Tuan Minh Le by a single p...
Upsets continue to stream in at a staggering rate in round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Several 2700+ grandmasters were eliminated after the second classical game: World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju eliminated by Frederik Svane GM Ani...
GM Magnus Carlsen may have been the favorite before the games started, but GM Oleksandr Bortnyk convincingly won his fifth Freestyle Friday tournament 9.5/11, a full point ahead of the former world champion and GM Dmitry Andreikin. With 83 partici...
IM Levy Rozman stunned more than 200,000 of his opponents and "did the meme" in GothamChess vs. the World on November 7 by sacrificing his rook on the game's 21st move. After the world attacked Gotham's rook with a pawn, the internet chess st...
GM Jose Martinez (2644) scored the upset of the day in game one of round three in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. His opponent, world number-12 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2750), played a creative and strong exchange sacrifice to achieve a large advantage,...
There are 64 players heading into round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. In round two tiebreaks this Thursday, 27 players were eliminated. The upset of the day was GM Lorenzo Lodici's (2572) match win against GM Hans Niemann (2729). Another match...
The second edition of the new, monthly version of Arena Kings happened on November 5. In this month's multi-club arena with more than 1,800 total players representing 52 squads, K2N Chess won the overall standings, while GM Jose Ibarra took home t...
We're excited to announce that you can now get tickets to watch the Speed Chess Championship Live Finals in London. Experience the thrill that only the SCC can provide, and join the roaring crowd cheering for their heroes as they battle in high-sp...
Twenty-seven matches go to tiebreaks after the second classical game in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. GM Pentala Harikrishna played the Game of the Day, if not the tournament, with a stunning queen sacrifice against GM Arseniy Nesterov. ...
GM Denis Lazavik won Titled Tuesday on November 4, seizing the outright lead away from GM Jose Martinez in the final round on a day where such tournament lead changes were typical. GM Magnus Carlsen took second place ahead of Martinez while G...
Twenty-one players, on a total of 64 boards in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, scored wins and are a draw away from advancing to round three. On the top boards, we saw GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Wei Yi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Ma...
