GM Tan Zhongyi won with the black pieces against GM Lei Tingjie to finish in third place at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She qualifies for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates and earns a $25,000 prize. The match for first place, between IM Divya ...
GMs Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Nihal Sarin, and Javokhir Sindarov have taken the final four spots in the $1.5 million main chess event of the 2025 Esports World Cup. Giri won in the most dramatic fashion, flagging GM Hans Niemann in a losing posit...
16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel impressively scored 161 points in Saturday's Bullet Brawl and 6/8 against 29-time winner GM Daniel Naroditsky to clinch his fourth career title and the $400 first prize. Naroditsky and GM Andrew Tang challenged Gurel bu...
Both games were drawn in game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Finals, but neither of them was dull. IM Divya Deshmukh gained a massive advantage as early as move 10 and even sacrificed a piece, but GM Koneru Humpy got away. In the match for...
GM Alexander Fishbein clinched the U.S. Senior Championship title by winning a playoff on Friday with GM Vladimir Akopian and GM Alexander Shabalov after all three had finished in a tie for first. Fishbein earned $23,167. GM Andy Woodward was the ...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Hans Niemann topped Groups C and D of the 2025 Esports World Cup Last Chance Qualifier as the 16-player field was completed for Saturday's Playoffs. They were joined by GMs Yu Yangyi, Javokhir Sindarov, Anish Giri...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi doesn't really need to add too many more accomplishments to his resume, but he did that on July 25 by winning his first Freestyle Friday ahead of GMs Jeffery Xiong and Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tiebreaks. The field of 175 pl...
GM Levon Aronian continued his form from Las Vegas as he topped Group A of the Last Chance Qualifier in Riyadh for the 2025 Esports World Cup, while GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vidit Gujrathi, and Daniil Dubov were all eliminated. GMs Alexey Sarana, Mar...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev emerged as the winner of the grueling Biel Masters Triathlon, an event that required him to play a total of 30 games in Chess960, blitz, rapid, and classical formats over 11 days. The Russian grandmaster, who lives in Germany ...
GM Koneru Humpy was on the brink of elimination in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals after losing the third tiebreak game. But she won on demand in game four and then won the two blitz games—pulling off the hat trick—to advanc...
21-year-old Bibisara Assaubayeva has officially become the 43rd woman to achieve the grandmaster title, joining a prestigious list of players to achieve the feat. IM Roman Shogdzhiev has also been confirmed as the world's youngest international ma...
IM Divya Deshmukh eliminated GM Tan Zhongyi from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, extending her Cinderella story into the Final with a third consecutive match victory over a grandmaster. She also earns her first grandmaster norm and a spot in the ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved the participation of a Russian team in the upcoming 2025 Women's World Team Championship. The controversial decision has led to several reactions, most notably from the Ukrainian Chess Federat...
Both Titled Tuesday events of July 22 were close, but in the end, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Bogdan-Daniel Deac won out. They scored 9.5 points each, beating out GMs Jeffery Xiong and Matthias Bluebaum, respectively, on tiebreaks. Both Nakamura ...
Four cities in two continents played over-the-board chess against one another on International Chess Day (July 20). The event, Portals x Chess.com, was a celebration of chess that connected Dublin, Ireland; Lublin, Poland; Philadelphia, U.S.A.; an...
With no decisive results after game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, tensions rise as we enter the second and potentially last game of each match. IM Divya Deshmukh held a quick draw with Black against GM Tan Zhongyi, while GM Ko...
When basketball star Victor Wembanyama (Wemby) says that it's time for a game, chess players show up! It happened last December in New York, and again on Sunday in his hometown of Le Chesnay, France. Just last week, Wemby announced the Hoop Gambit...
Nineteen-year-old IM Divya Deshmukh has reached the Semifinals of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after winning the all-Indian tiebreak clash with GM Harika Dronavalli 2-0. Divya dominated an impressive first game before Harika came very clos...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship (WSCC), the most exciting speed chess event for women in the world! Starting on August 4, the event will feature a $75,000 prize fund and the same thrilling format fans already kn...
GM Levon Aronian has been crowned the $200,000 winner of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Sunday after overcoming GM Hans Niemann 1.5-0.5 in the Final. Aronian held firm in an opposite-colored bishop ending in the first, before putting ...
GM Lei Tingjie continues her impressive run in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, scoring another clean 2-0 victory, this time with a rather convincing victory against GM Nana Dzagnidze, to climb to women's world number-two in the live ratings. Jo...
World numbers one and two Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will battle for the $100,000 third-place prize on the final day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas. Carlsen lost his first game of the day to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu but bl...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has returned to the top spot in the latest edition of Bullet Brawl, two months after winning his last title. Naroditsky outpaced 105 titled players, including the second- and third-placed GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and IM Yoseph Tah...
GMs Lei Tingjie and Koneru Humpy struck first in their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup quarterfinal matches. Humpy's win over IM Song Yuxin was convincing if bumpy at times, while Lei confessed she played "pretty horribly" before turning things around...
GM Hans Niemann and Levon Aronian will be at least $140,000 richer when the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas comes to its conclusion on Sunday after the pair won their respective Semifinals, setting up a Final that was "written in the stars," ...
