GM Mukhiddin Madaminov won the 2026 UzChess Cup Masters and $20,000 on June 15 after defeating GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov 2-0 in blitz tiebreaks. Both players finished the round-robin with 5.5/9, with three grandmasters a half-point behind: Ian N...
CM Odin Blikra Vea and Askild Bryn played 383 five-minute blitz games over more than 61 hours to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. In a new Chess.com documentary, the Norwegian duo revisits the highs, hallucinations, ...
You're smarter than you think, and we can prove it. You've probably played more brilliant moves than you remember—and you can now review them all with our new advanced stats feature! Diamond members can now relive their greatest moments and ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura, the undisputed king of Bullet Brawl, pulled off another comprehensive victory on Saturday, gaining his 10th title in as many appearances in 2026. Nakamura finished with 182 points, 42 points clear of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and a...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Dmitry Andreikin, and Aravindh Chithambaram emerged with the best tiebreaks to win the 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 11. It was a day of tiebreakers, as both the first and third events finished with five-way ties atop ...
GM Pranav Venkatesh overcame losses in the second and fourth rounds in Freestyle Friday on June 12 to win all his other games, take first place outright, and pass GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship (FFC) standings....
The Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) has been suspended from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) after failing to comply with a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that required the CFR to cease organizing chess activities in Russian...
GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov leads the 2026 UzChess Cup after five hard-fought rounds, where we have seen more decisive games than draws. After losing in round two against GM Hans Niemann, the Uzbek grandmaster has won three games in a row against GMs M...
Chess stepped further into the mainstream spotlight on Saturday as Grandmasters, the new docuseries featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and other leading figures of the game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda impressively won Titled Tuesday on June 9 with a score of 10/11. He becomes the second player to win the new first-place prize of $2,500, and also the second player, after GM Javokhir Sindarov, to win three Titled Tuesda...
Get ready for blazing tactics and electrifying swindles! The next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships is coming with the speediest of variants. The Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship takes place from June 18 to 19 and features a $...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Bibisara Assaubayeva are the 2026 Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women champions. Assaubayeva ran away with it, while Praggnanandhaa came clutch in a comeback that shocked the other players and even himself. Let's...
Ukrainian WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the most remarkable upsets of European championship history, winning the European Women's Championship outright in Batumi, Georgia. The 15-year-old entered the tournament as the 76th seed in a fi...
IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008. The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his 2026 Bullet Brawl victory streak with a barnstorming performance in Saturday's event, racing to a 201-point victory with no rivals in sight. The American superstar finished a commanding 58 points ahead of Ukrainian...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the Norway Chess 2026 champion after beating GM Vincent Keymer to complete an amazing run of four classical wins to end the tournament. GM Wesley So finished second after beating GM Alireza Firouzja in armageddon, a...
On June 5, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the first player to win nine Freestyle Fridays and to win three in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship. A fast 9/9 start was enough to hang on to outright victory through an 0.5/2 finish as Bortnyk returns...
GM Denis Lazavik, who won Titled Tuesday this week with a dominant 10/11 score, repeated the performance in the first 3 0 Thursday tournament on June 4, scoring another 10 points to take clear first place. The second and third tournaments of the d...
GM Wesley So continues to lead Norway Chess 2026 after round nine, but that lead has thinned to a half-point over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. So drew GM Magnus Carlsen and then won the critical extra half-point in armageddon, while Praggnanandha...
The Esports World Cup qualifiers may have already been decided, but there was still much to play for in Titled Tuesday on June 2, with a new prize fund of $10,000. The new prizes attracted a field of more than 500 players for the first time since ...
Round eight of Norway Chess 2026 will go down as one of the most shocking, with two decisive classical games. GM Wesley So leads after making the only classical draw against GM Vincent Keymer and then winning in armageddon, but we saw world number...
The quantitative trading firm Jane Street won the North American Corporate Chess League's 13th season on May 28, winning three rounds of playoff matches, including an exciting final against JPMorgan Chase. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess ...
Calling all speed addicts! The world's fastest players will meet again to battle in the next edition of the Bullet Chess Championship starting June 22. With a $50,000 prize fund and the most dangerous bullet players in the world, drama is all but ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi lost a tight tiebreak match to GM Magnus Carlsen in the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament in May. While he couldn't quite take first place, Arjun's strong 5/8 performance earned him 10 rating points, raising his rating to 2761. That ...
GM Wesley So leads Norway Chess 2026 after round seven, with GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5 points behind. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju achieved a winning position against So but couldn't see it through in the classical game; despite winning the armag...
