For GM Haik Martirosyan, last month, it was Titled Tuesday. This month, Freestyle Friday. Martirosyan won the weekly freestyle chess event on May 22, his second following a win on February 13. Martirosyan scored an incredible 10.5 back then, but t...
Huddle up, chess fans: BlitzChamps V is back. Eight NFL stars are trading the field for the board on May 26 at 5 p.m. ET / 23:00 CEST, and the clock will be just as dangerous as any pass rush. With bragging rights and a $100,000 prize fund going t...
GM Javokhir Sindarov pounced on a mistake by leader GM Vincent Keymer to grab his first classical win since the FIDE Candidates and transform the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 standings with two rounds to go. Keymer was caught by GM Fabiano Car...
Plenty of footballers enjoy chess. But few, if any, can match the level of Major League Soccer star Dejan Joveljić. Recently, the Serbian forward showed off his skills in a match against IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess. Mohamed Salah...
GM Judit Polgar demonstrates her thought process and tells amazing stories in her new Chessable course, Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 2: GM To Top 10. Polgar, the star of the recent Netflix documentary, Queen Of Chess, publishes this cours...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus have added their names to the $50,000 Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz this July, joining an already spectacular lineup that includes GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Javokhir Sindarov, Hans Niemann,...
FIDE has officially announced the star-studded team lineups for the upcoming FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Chess Championships 2026. Descending upon Hong Kong’s iconic Queen Elizabeth Stadium June 17-21, this high-stakes festival of...
GM Vincent Keymer increased his lead to a full point over the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 field after GM Alireza Firouzja's withdrawal from the event gave him a forfeit win. All the other games in round six were drawn, with GMs Wesley So (vs....
GMs Aravindh Chithambaram, Andrey Esipenko, Liem Le, and Alexey Sarana were the four players to qualify, through DreamHack Atlanta 2026, for the 2026 Esports World Cup Play-in. There, they will face the four other players who finish at the top of ...
GM Alireza Firouzja has withdrawn from the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 following an ankle injury sustained during the event, the Grand Chess Tour announced on Wednesday. Despite the withdrawal, the 22-year-old is expected to travel to Oslo th...
GM Alexey Sarana was your winner in Titled Tuesday on May 19, scoring 9.5 points and coming out ahead of GM Christopher Yoo in tiebreaks. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third for a second straight week, while GM Arjun Erigaisi took fourth place, havi...
We're excited to announce that you can now keep up with every FIDE rating change and ranking movement live on Chess.com! Keep an eye on your favorite players, learn about their latest results, and even see if they're playing a rated event right no...
GM Alireza Firouzja followed in the footsteps (not literally) of GM Tony Miles as an ankle injury forced him to play round five of the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 from a hotel bed. GM Javokhir Sindarov almost won that clash, but it was a...
As we enter the last week of Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star voting, you can now play chess against MLS star Dejan Joveljić! A dangerous player on the field, Joveljić also knows how to score over the chessboard. With a jaw-dropping 2217 rating,...
GM Vincent Keymer's gamble of choosing to allow GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to be the first player ever to play the Najdorf against him paid off as he took the sole lead after four rounds of the Super Chess Classic Romania 2026. The biggest news o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura added another chapter to his storied Bullet Brawl career on Saturday, dominating a 173-player titled field to win the latest edition of Chess.com’s premier weekly bullet arena with an impressive 171-point haul. Although ...
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...
