IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child. The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared...
NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani dominated the 2025 Chess.com Community Bughouse Championship, although they didn't have the highest FIDE ratings in the field. They won two matches decisively against the second-place team of FM Richard Zheng an...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
GM David Howell is the first grandmaster to triumph in Kids vs. Stars without losing a game after making draws against IM Marco Materia and FM Supratit Banerjee and beating FM Megan Paragua and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. The 3-1 win wasn't easy, with...
If you were hoping for upsets, blunders, and dramatic twists of fate, game one of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup did not disappoint. On the one hand, we saw several pre-tournament favorites win, including GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana D...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners for the July 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. Nakamura also finished third in the early tournament, and after he started out 8/8 in the late event, his 3416 Chess.com Blitz rating had set a new a...
Chess.com is excited to announce our newest partnership with viral Portal sculptures as we celebrate the upcoming International Chess Day with our Portals x Chess.com event. On July 20, starting at 10 a.m. ET / 16:00 CEST, players in Dublin, Lubli...
Team Liquid's chess roster just got even stronger. The Dutch esports powerhouse has added world number-four GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to their ranks, joining superstar GMs Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. The 19-year-old Indian prodigy was...
The first set of players have been eliminated from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, and 11 players advanced through tiebreaks into an even more challenging round two. The advancing players are WIM Priyanka K, WIM Anahita Zahedifar, IM Klaudia Kulo...
Vietnamese GM Liem Le has won the 2025 Leon Masters after denying Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand an 11th title by winning their final match 3-1. Le beat local hero GM Jaime Santos in the Semifinals, while Anand defeated 11-year-old Arg...
After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots in round two...
Kids vs. Stars will return for its fifth edition on July 9, starting at 1 p.m. ET / 19:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST. This time, world-class commentator GM David Howell will take on four young prodigies to try to keep the stars' win streak running. R...
GM Magnus Carlsen struggled on the final day but still won the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare and a 2.5-point margin. GM Wesley So took second place after winning a crazy game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the fin...
The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup wasn't the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107 participants fr...
Nine-year-old CM Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore has added another milestone to his young chess career by sensationally scoring his first international master (IM) norm at the 10th Marina Viva Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. Ashwath is just the ...
24 hours after winning his fifth Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Chess.com's servers to capture his 43rd Bullet Brawl title in a commanding fashion. Nakamura and GM Andrew Tang broke away from the 135-strong field on Saturday; how...
GM Magnus Carlsen started day four of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz trailing World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by four points but ended the day two points ahead after scoring 7.5/9 while Gukesh crashed to 1.5/9. GM Jan-Krzysztof Dud...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju increased his lead over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to three points and kept a four-point gap to GM Magnus Carlsen as he made two draws and scored a dominant win over GM Wesley So to score 14/18 in the rapid section ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to win five Freestyle Fridays on July 4 after scoring an undefeated 10/11, following his first perfect run in last week's edition. Nakamura has now gone 29 games without a loss in Freestyle Fridays, with ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju has done it again, beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen from a losing position to take the sole lead in the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz. "Now we can question Magnus' domination," said 13th World Ch...
Armenian chess is in mourning following the passing of GM Tigran Nalbandian, a beloved coach and player who played a central role in the rise of chess in his nation over the last two decades. Nalbandian died of a heart attack last week in ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and world number-one Magnus Carlsen will meet again on day two of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz after ending day one tied for the lead on 4/6 together with GMs Wesley So and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Guke...
