It was a dream day for the Dutch as GM Jorden van Foreest brilliantly defeated GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac, while a slip on move 68 by GM Alireza Firouzja saw GM Anish Giri join his compatriot in the lead. The five-way tie for first in the Super Chess C...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu outcalculated GM Javokhir Sindarov in round two of the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 to hand the world championship challenger his first classical loss since early September. There were also wins for GM Maxime Vachi...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk needed only nine points to win Freestyle Friday outright on May 15, good enough for his eighth Freestyle Friday victory, which tied GM Hikaru Nakamura for the most all time. GM Frederik Svane finished in sole second place on 8...
No one has ever won all three 3 0 Thursday blitz tournaments on the same day, but GM Arjun Erigaisi nearly changed that on May 14, finishing just short on tiebreaks from a perfect hat-trick of victories. Arjun dominated the first tournament, winni...
All games were drawn as the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 began in Bucharest on Thursday. It wasn't for a lack of fighting spirit, with GM Alireza Firouzja spoiling a decisive advantage against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, while GMs Wesley So ...
France announced its Open and Women's teams for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026 on Tuesday and notably addressed the absence of French number-one and world number-nine GM Alireza Firouzja. The Iranian-born grandmaster, who moved to France in 201...
The $10,000 weekly prize fund isn't quite here yet in Titled Tuesday, but participation was up significantly on May 12, to 436 players after last week's 343 participants. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won a dramatic tournament on tiebreaks ahead of GM Jef...
A new book by best-selling author Ben Mezrich offers the most detailed account yet of the controversy between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, revealing new details behind what became the biggest scandal in modern chess. In Checkmate: Genius...
It took GM Axel Smith more than 29 hours to complete a 49-board blindfold simul this weekend. The Swedish grandmaster scored a dominant 41-8—but said afterward that raising awareness for a climate cause mattered more than the result or any r...
Titled Tuesday is getting its biggest prize fund ever. Starting June 2, the event will feature a weekly $10,000 prize fund, bringing its yearly total to more than $500,000—more than three times the current purse. Titled Tuesday has become ...
Another path to the prestigious Esports World Cup (EWC) has been revealed. Players can now participate in India Rising for a $30,000 prize fund and, most importantly, one spot at the EWC in Riyadh. The event mixes online qualifiers with a thrillin...
History was made when IM Faustino Oro sealed his final grandmaster norm with a round to spare at the Sardinia World Chess Festival in Italy on Saturday. The Argentinian "Messi of Chess" becomes the second-youngest player ever to earn the title. ...
Bullet Brawl was set alight on Saturday by another junior talent, GM Andy Woodward, who blazed his way to a debut title ahead 191 titled players. Fresh off a solid performance at TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2026, Woodward put on an...
GM Hans Niemann has won the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the biggest tournament win of his career so far, to earn the $50,000 first prize. Following up on last year's winner, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, it's the second year in a row that a wildc...
GM Dmitry Andreikin has been crowned as the winner of the 2026 Chess.com King of the Hill Championship on Friday, marking the first time that a super-GM has won a Chess.com Community Chess Championship event. In the wake of a match loss to...
Even after ending the day with three losses, GM Hans Niemann leads the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after the first nine rounds of blitz. GM Wesley So wasn't able to catch up as he lost two out of the last four games himself, making draws i...
GM Vincent Keymer won Freestyle Friday on May 8 by a full point, scoring 9.5/11 ahead of IM Marco Materia and GM Pranav Venkatesh. Keymer only scored 0.5/2 against Materia and Pranav individually, but won every other game to become the first playe...
GMs Jose Martinez and Alexey Sarana have been scoring victories in 3 0 Thursday tournaments since the very first day of the event, and both players added to their trophy cases on May 7. Sarana won the first tournament of the day before finishing h...
Have you ever studied a bunch of lines in an opening, just to see your opponent playing something completely different? Your struggle is finally over, as you can now access Chess.com's game database. Check what other people are playing and take yo...
GM Hans Niemann leads the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after nine rounds of rapid chess, with 18 rounds of blitz to come in the next two days. A win against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in round eight, accompanied by two draws, was enough to break...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament after grinding out a trademark classical win over GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and then beating GM Arjun Erigaisi 2-1 in blitz tiebreaks. Arjun began the day as sole leader but needed luck...
GMs Wesley So and Hans Niemann lead the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after six rounds, with GM Vladimir Fedoseev just one point behind in sole second. Lagging two points behind him are GMs Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh Dommaraju (who will be cele...
GM Arjun Erigaisi ground out a 67-move win over GM Zhu Jiner to go into the final round of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament as the sole leader on 4.5/6. GM Magnus Carlsen is half a point back after using the King's Indian Defense to take dow...
Swedish GM Axel Smith is preparing for an extraordinary test of mental endurance by playing 49 blindfold games simultaneously, not just in pursuit of a record, but to raise awareness for a climate campaign. On Thursday, May 7, the Swedish grandm...
For most players, a six-month wait between Titled Tuesday victories would not be remarkable; hundreds play every single week, yet only a few dozen players have even won twice ever. But for all-time victories leader GM Hikaru Nakamura, months betwe...
