GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Tan Zhongyi lead the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on a perfect 2/2 after beating IMs Lela Javakhishvili and Olga Badelka in round two. The most significant clash of the round, meanwhile, saw GM Anna Muzychu...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Wesley So started off with wins in round one of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Firouzja won our Game of the Day against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, where the French numbers one and two battled in the French Defens...
The first Titled Tuesdays of May went to GMs Magnus Carlsen and Javokhir Sindarov. Carlsen scored 10 points in his victory and Sindarov scored 9.5, but both needed tiebreaks, Carlsen over GM Bharath Subramaniyam and Sindarov ahead of last week's l...
10-year-old FM Roman Shogdzhiev continued his rapid rise at the Baku Open, where he secured his second International Master norm with a stellar 2514 performance in a field packed with titled players. Top seed and 2024 European Champion GM Alexan...
Two-time U.S. Chess Champion GM Alex Yermolinsky says he is “overwhelmed with emotions” at the outpouring of support from the chess community after he underwent life-saving heart surgery abroad. The legendary 67-year-old grandmaster,...
GM Tan Zhongyi bounced back from her world championship disappointment to start the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a 96-move win that hurt GM Zhu Jiner's chances of winning the series. There were also wins for GM Vaishali Rameshbab...
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 2025 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...
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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...
