GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in the Grand ...
Andrey Volgin defeated Henry Michael through the Final Reset route to win the eight-player final of the Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship 2026. Michael defeated Volgin in a fight between the two untitled players in the Winners Final of the doubl...
Argentinian prodigy IM Faustino Oro came within one victory of making chess history before losing the final round of the Aeroflot Open last week. Despite the loss, the youngster ended the tournament with a rating gain and remained positive about a...
GM Wesley So, trailing by a point against GM Fabiano Caruana in The American Cup 2026 Champions Final, needed to win on demand just to stay alive. He did just that, in an opposite-color bishop endgame, and then won the blitz playoffs to advance to...
GM Fabiano Caruana picked up a win against GM Wesley So in the first game of The American Cup 2026 Champions Final. In the Elimination Bracket, GMs Sam Sevian and Leinier Dominguez were eliminated by GMs Levon Aronian and Awonder Liang, respective...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is $400 richer and has added a 15th Bullet Brawl title to his name after coming out on top of what he described as "one of the hardest" Bullet Brawls he has won. With a score of 150 points, Bortnyk finished two points ahead of...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So advance to the Champions Final of The American Cup 2026. After making draws in the classical portion, they overcame GMs Awonder Liang and Sam Sevian in blitz tiebreaks 1.5-0.5 each, respectively. In the Eliminatio...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the first player to win the Prague Chess Festival Masters twice after an effortless draw against GM Hans Niemann in the final round was enough to win by a full point. Long-term leader GM Jorden van Foreest crashed and b...
IM Renato Terry extended his 3 0 Thursday win record to eight titles after prevailing in the second tournament with a commanding score of 9.5/11 on March 5. Adding to a growing stockpile of IM victories, Reza Mahdavi won his third title in consecu...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda scored 9.5 points and took his second-ever Freestyle Friday on March 6, after his first came more than a year ago. He finished ahead of GM Martyn Kravtsiv, IM Almas Rakhmatullaev, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished second...
Chess.com will return to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston this weekend, once again bringing chess to one of the world’s premier gatherings of sports executives, analysts, and innovators. As...
GMs Ray Robson and Abhimanyu Mishra were the first to leave The American Cup 2026 after matches in the Elimination Bracket didn't go their way. The quadragenarian GMs Levon Aronian and Leinier Dominguez won respectively and advanced, while GM...
GM Hans Niemann's first win of what he called "probably the worst tournament of my life" looked to be the highlight of the penultimate round of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters until some shocking late drama. The key games looked headed for ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Awonder Liang, Sam Sevian, and Wesley So advance in the Champions Bracket of The American Cup 2026 after defeating GMs Abhimanyu Mishra, Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez, and Ray Robson respectively. Caruana held a draw a...
"At the end I made it far too exciting!" said GM Vincent Keymer after almost letting GM David Anton escape in round seven of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Aravindh Chithambaram did spoil a win against GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, while the ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura tops the field in the first Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz, set for July 3–5 at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, United States. The event will bring together some of the world's strongest speed chess...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen is making a surprise early return to classical chess, as he headlines TePe Sigeman Chess 2026 on May 1-7. In Malmo, Sweden, he'll be challenged by some of the world's brightest young stars. Carlsen and 2024 winner...
Day one of The American Cup 2026 saw GM Fabiano Caruana draw blood against GM Abhimanyu Mishra in game one, while the three other games ended in draws. Mishra will have to win game two on Wednesday to stay in the Championship Bracket. We saw even ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is in last place of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters and has slumped to world number-20 after losing to Indian countryman GM Aravindh Chithambaram in round six. GM Jorden van Foreest still leads by half a poin...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won Titled Tuesday on March 3 as the Spring Split, the third and final portion of the 2025-26 Titled Tuesday season, opened. Sindarov defeated GM Nihal Sarin in the final round and emerged as the victor on tiebreaks after co-l...
IM Levy Rozman became the world's biggest chess YouTuber by teaching millions of players how to win at chess. Two and a half years after a massively successful book debut, he's taking it one step further by targeting readers who can't yet walk, ta...
Tata Steel Chess Masters 2026 and the Challengers, which started in mid-January and ended at the start of February, were responsible for most of the rating changes among the world's top players. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov followed up his 19-point ga...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won another rollercoaster game against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to join GM David Navara in second place in the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters after five rounds. Navara won a beautiful game against GM Nodirbek Ya...
GM Mikhail Antipov won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters with 7.5/9 to earn the $25,000 first prize. He and GM Fabiano Caruana were neck and neck going into the last round, and both had the black pieces. Antipov managed to win his last game against GM ...
GM Jorden van Foreest is now the sole leader of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters on 3/4 after beating GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, with the Dutch star overtaking World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju on the live rating list. Gukesh was frustrated by fin...
