No, it's not Mount Everest. It is something way more challenging. We invite you to join the Chess.com King of the Hill Championship! The event will take place on May 15 and 16 and features a $2,500 prize fund. After a close contest against Chess...
Eighteen-year-old GM Christopher Yoo scored an impressive performance to win Italy's Sardinia World Chess Festival with 7.5/9 last week, but his participation in Italy has led to scrutiny from the chess community due to his domestic ban from compe...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Chess.com Classic, the last online event of this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT). The event takes place between May 18 and May 23 and will feature some of the strongest players in the world. At stake are $150,0...
Canada's youngest ever IM Aaron Mendes has won the Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship after defeating FM-elect Megan Paragua 5-3 in the final. Paragua got a late chance to play in the knockout after FM-elect Supratit Banerjee was forced to ...
13-year-old Turkish GM Yagiz Erdogmus added a second Bullet Brawl title to his ever-growing trophy case on Saturday after scoring 72/79 for a total of 258 points in the two-hour arena. Erdogmus won the $400 first prize ahead of GMs Ediz Gurel, Hik...
That's a wrap for PogChamps 6! Throughout the event, fans have witnessed many nerve-wracking moments and piece blunders. We also saw a first in PogChamps history: not a single stalemate in the entire tournament. Ultimately, Ebere Eze became the ...
GM Vincent Keymer, who made waves in February by winning the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, added another Chess960 crown to his list on May 2, winning Freestyle Friday by a full point with a 10/11 score. GMs Pranesh M, Fabiano Caruan...
PogChamps 6 continues to amaze fans and commentators alike. Players found new and creative ways to blunder their queens, throw games, and entertain the audience on the first day of the knockouts. Sapnap and Steve Nedoroscik defeated Sambucha and...
The Czech chess community is mourning the sudden loss of GM Petr Neuman, who passed away this week at the age of only 47. The grandmaster was found dead in his Prague apartment on Monday, the Czech Chess Federation announced on its website on We...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju will lead India against GM Hikaru Nakamura and the USA in a new five-board team match, which will also see GM Fabiano Caruana take on GM Arjun Erigaisi. The organizers say they expect a sold-out crowd for the stadiu...
56-year-old Ukrainian GM Vasyl Ivanchuk played a staggering 27 games in 19 days in April as he picked up 40 rating points to return to the Top 100 on the May 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Wesley So moved up to 11th, while the biggest climber near the ...
[Edited on 4/30/2025:] Please note that DrLupo will be replaced in the Consolation Bracket, as per our announcement. DrLupo has been closed for a fair play violation that occured during today’s Pogchamps event. He will be replaced i...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev has won the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with three rounds to spare and ultimately finished with 26.5 points, one of the highest scores ever in Grand Chess Tour rapid and blitz events. He takes home $40,000. The Su...
There was no shortage of name recognition atop this week's Titled Tuesday standings, with GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann claiming victory on April 29. Both won without the need of tiebreaks and without losing a single game, although Nak...
We're excited to announce that you can now learn with the best chess courses in the world right here on Chess.com. Pick up new openings, learn chess strategy, and sharpen your tactics with top courses from the world's leading players and coaches! ...
The wait is finally over. PogChamps 6 started with a bang after a one-year hiatus left fans longing for more hilarious moments and unbelievable blunders. And today's Group A round-robin stage certainly delivered both. The three highest-rated pla...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev leads the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland by nearly four points going into the final day. After previously making six draws to end the rapid portion, he nearly "pulled a Magnus" on the first day of blitz by scoring a re...
Twenty-year-old Thalia from Chester, United Kingdom, won BBC's Chess Masters: The Endgame after beating Richie (63, Liverpool) in the eighth and final episode aired on Monday. The first episode of Chess Masters attracted just under 1.2 million vie...
GM Alireza Firouzja lost on time just when he seemed to have escaped against GM Aravindh Chithambaram and was set to be the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland going into the 18 rounds of blitz. Instead he was caught by Aravi...
PogChamps 6 is about to start! Soon, 12 celebrities will come together to compete for the title of PogChampion, a piece of the $100,000 prize fund, and bragging rights! To celebrate the sixth edition of everyone's favorite amateur tournament, Ch...
GM Andrew Tang won his 10th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after one of the quickest finishes in the event's history. A 17-game unbeaten streak at the tail end of the arena helped him eclipse GM Oleksandr Bortnyk by eight ...
The one and only GM Vasyl Ivanchuk capped off a brilliant comeback by winning the 4th Menorca Open with an unbeaten 8/9 score and an impressive 2833 performance. The 56-year-old secured his first major tournament victory since 2019, and with it, a...
GM Alireza Firouzja pounced on a blunder by GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to win the battle of the players who started day two in second place and catch GM Vladimir Fedoseev in the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland lead. GM Aravindh Chithambar...
Wildcard GM Vladimir Fedoseev is the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event on the 2025 Grand Chess Tour, after scoring 5/6 on day one. It could have been 6/6, but GM Alireza Firouzja escaped in the first r...
GM Sina Movahed, a 14-year-old chess prodigy out of Iran (whose name seems to befit a chess player), won Freestyle Friday on April 25. For the first time in a month, only nine points were needed for victory, as Movahed won out on tiebreaks ahead o...
