Despite the end result, game one of the title match between GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals was a true, five-hour-long struggle. Caruana reached a winning queen endgame, but it was too difficult t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's wins in state championships have taken him back to 2816, a peak he reached exactly a decade ago, but also provoked FIDE to change its rules. Elsewhere GM Anish Giri's victory in the FIDE Grand Swiss took him up to world number...
Arena Kings got a fresh new start on October 1; the new monthly version of Arena Kings continues to showcase the Chess.com streaming community as it always has, and only adds to that sense of community by allowing players to join together in a lar...
IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess, has just made chess history. Just two moves into the GothamChess vs. The World match on Chess.com, he has officially broken the world record for the largest online chess match, surpassing 144,000 partic...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play the title match of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. Caruana won his match 15-13 against GM Levon Aronian, while Vachier-Lagrave won 17-11 against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. In a cruel tu...
GM Magnus Carlsen, perhaps the greatest player to ever play the game, has become a father for the first time. The five-time world champion and his wife Ella Victoria Carlsen have welcomed their first child on September 27. The joyful news was fi...
"HN" won another Titled Tuesday on September 30, but this time it was GM Hans Niemann who took home the victory, while last week's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura was runner-up this week. Only two draws kept the undefeated Niemann from a perfect score, ...
FM James Canty III is the Super Heavyweight Chessboxing World Champion after winning two chess-and-boxing bouts in the 7th World Chessboxing Championships in Loznica, Serbia. He ducked and weaved in the ring and was just too fast for his opponents...
Last season, Saint Louis University, SLU, won the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) in convincing fashion. On September 30, they began their title defense by winning their first match of the Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 just as convin...
In a round that barely lasted two hours, we saw two draws in both semifinal matches of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. The scores, in GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Levon Aronian, remain ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a change to its rating regulations that will already take effect on October 1, removing the so-called 400-point rule for players rated above 2650. The change was triggered by GM Hikaru Nakamu...
Enough with do-or-die from move one—steer the game toward strategic waters that you understand with the new Anna Cramling's 1.d4 - Part 1 course! Great strategists like GM Magnus Carlsen have taken over the chess world with their calm and ...
The Speed Chess Championship (SCC) is back, and drama is guaranteed as the event will reignite the fiercest rivalries in chess today. Starting October 13, the championship will once again pit GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Hans Niemann a...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu blundered with a second on his clock to turn a promising position into a pawn-down endgame, but GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed a win as their 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals semifinal began with a draw. The other match-...
GM Andrew Tang has reclaimed equal third position on Bullet Brawl's all-time leaderboard after prevailing over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in a sprint to the finish in Saturday's arena. Tang combined pace and precision to amass a score of 162 points, e...
GM Alexander Grischuk won his second Freestyle Friday of the year on September 26, recovering from a 1.5/3 start by winning his last eight games to clear the 135-player field by a full point. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Jan-Krzysztof Duda were Grischu...
Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro continues to rewrite the history books. The 11-year-old won the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid on Thursday, clinching first place with a round to spare. Along the way, he secured his fir...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took his first Titled Tuesday in the new system on September 23, entering the top four of the Champions Chess Tour standings. Other than two quick draws in the seventh and eighth rounds, he scored every possible point on his way...
Argentina’s IM Faustino Oro has scored his first grandmaster norm after a stunning 6/7 start to the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid, Spain. Only World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Illya Nyzhnyk have ever scored a GM nor...
Hawks and elephants are storming the chessboard once again in the next event of the Chess.com Community Championship. The Seirawan Chess Championship takes place on October 2 and 3, featuring a $2,000 prize pool. Seirawan Chess is the brainchild...
Chess will return as a stadium sport at the Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas, on October 4. The organizers said they hope to capture both die-hard chess fans and the broader chess audience with some fascinating new experiments. ...
Announced on Monday, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has granted six wildcard invitations for the upcoming 2025 FIDE World Cup, a major tournament in November that will award three seats in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. The winner of that ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has moved one step closer to a historic 50th Bullet Brawl title after outscoring GMs Andrew Tang, Daniel Naroditsky, and 196 hungry titled players on Saturday. Nakamura scored 174 points in the two-hour arena and won the...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on September 19, his seventh, reaching his final score of nine points with a win in the final round against GM Sina Movahed. Movahed, who was attempting to win the event for the third straight week, retained...
FIDE, the International Chess Federation, in a piece published on Tuesday, announced there are 100 days before the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships are set to take place in Doha, Qatar. While they have kept last year's format for the Blitz...
