GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29. The news has sent shockwaves around the chess community, which is grieving the loss of one of...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the October 17 Freestyle Friday in fine fashion, scoring 10 points to clear the field by 1.5 points. It was Carlsen's first win in the event since August 15, which was also the last time anyone scored 10 points. He hadn't rea...
GM Fabiano Caruana bulldozed his pawns through GM Hans Niemann's kingside to reach a forced checkmate on Saturday in St. Louis. America's number two now leads with GM Wesley So, who put an end to GM Andy Woodward's winning ways. A very adventurous...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won $45,000 in the inaugural 2025 Comet Open, an event that concluded on Sunday, October 19. He didn't lose a single one of his six matches, finally defeating GM Denis Lazavik 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. He earns $45,000, while ...
GM Fabiano Caruana missed a huge chance to grab the sole lead at the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis on Saturday, failing to force a checkmate in nine moves against GM Wesley So. Alongside several more draws, GM Andy Woodward won his sec...
The 16-year-old Turkish prodigy and GM Ediz Gurel has moved to fifth on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after picking up his third win of 2025. Gurel scored 177 points, comprising 49 wins, six draws, and seven losses, giving him a winning ma...
GM Hans Niemann ended GM Abhimanyu Mishra's 71-game unbeaten streak to join GMs Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead after round five. So's sole lead ended with a 15-minute draw against GM Levon Aronian, and he wa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Liem Le 13.5-11.5 in the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Round of 16 on October 17. Though Nakamura dominated the first two portions of the match, it was in the bullet segment, surprisingly, that Le nearly made a heroi...
We're excited to announce our newest partner, the highly anticipated first-ever Broadway revival of the musical CHESS! To celebrate the occasion, we're launching exclusive new bots based on the characters of the show. You can now challenge Fredd...
GM Wesley So beat GM Vincent Keymer in the Speed Chess Championship 2025, winning the closest match yet in the Round of 16. He won only in overtime, after Keymer won the last bullet game on demand. So, who played during his rest day at the U.S. Ch...
GM Hans Niemann won a dramatic game against GM Sam Shankland in round four of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship to join GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in second place on 2.5/4, half a point behind leader GM Wesley So. Niemann's was the ...
GM Denis Lazavik defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi 12-9 in the Speed Chess Championship 2025. The 3+1 segment separated the players, and GM Aman Hambleton aptly summarized it: "I don't even recall Arjun playing a terrible match, Denis was just ...
The organizers behind Norway Chess have announced an ambitious new competition officially endorsed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Total Chess World Championship Tour will crown an entirely new FIDE World Combined Champion across...
The Ukrainian Open team and the Polish Women's team won the 2025 European Team Championships in Batumi, Georgia on Tuesday. Both teams were in the lead after round five and suffered subsequent losses but managed to clinch the gold medals after all...
Three-time U.S. Champion Wesley So beat 2018 Champion Sam Shankland to take the sole lead in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship on 2.5/3. He's trailed by half a point by GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, who made quiet draws with the black piec...
GM Jose Martinez of Mexico, IM Mai Narva of Estonia, and IM Faustino Oro of Argentina emerged winners of the Men, Women, and U21 sections, respectively, of the month-long 2025 GCL Contenders held on the Chess.com platform. They all qualified as Am...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on October 14, his third of the Autumn Split and first since the recent birth of his son, leading commentator GM David Howell to dub the champion "Daddy Carlsen." Carlsen flirted with a perfect score after reac...
The featured match in the third week of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) saw IM Roman Pyrih escape from two lost positions to score a perfect 4-0 and lead his Texas Tech University (TTU) chess team to their first victory of the season. It was a t...
WFM Alexandra Botez is best known for her career as a chess content creator and streamer, but now she's also entering game development with the launch of her first videogame. Co-produced with indie studio Millions of Monsters, Chess Arena reimagin...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Shankland joined GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in a four-way tie for the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead on 1.5/2 after scoring the only wins in round two. So beat his old college roommate GM Ray Robson while S...
Former world champion Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the live finals of the Speed Chess Championship in 2024. Both players look ready to return this year, as they began the 2025 edition with decisive victories against grandmasters ...
Thirty-two players, including top GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, and Alireza Firouzja, have qualified for the inaugural 2025 Comet Open main event. Next weekend, over two days of playoffs, the players will compete for their s...
A Dutch teenager has been given a three-year ban, with one year suspended, by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) after he was caught with a mobile phone hidden in his sock during a tournament in the Netherlands last year. The de...
GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed t...
The former world junior champion GM Jeffery Xiong rocketed to his first Bullet Brawl title on Saturday ahead of 148 other titled players after playing the unorthodox Orangutan Opening in most of his games with White. Xiong accrued a total score ...
