GMs Anish Giri and Vaishali Rameshbabu topped the tables of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, but the 172 players in 11 rounds brought countless stories. We got the surprise Candidates qual...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday for the second straight week on September 16, scoring 10.5 points with only a draw against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda preventing him from the perfect 11/11 in what he called "definitely one of my more comfortable Ti...
Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer and co-founder, IM Danny Rensch, has released his first book, Dark Squares, a raw and deeply personal memoir about growing up in an abusive cult, how chess became his lifeline, and the journey that helped him build ...
GM Anish Giri played a perfect slow, grinding game to defeat GM Hans Niemann and win the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss with 8/11. Giri takes the $90,000 top prize and earns a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, where he'll be joined by GM Matthia...
GM Hans Niemann's win over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was the only decisive game on the top-nine boards as he caught GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer, and Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead. They're on 7/10 going...
Following his back-to-back victories in the highly publicized 2025 Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday and picked up the $400 first prize. Nakamura scored 53/65 in the eve...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, and Vincent Keymer all won to catch GM Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 6.5/9 with two rounds to go. Firouzja won a wild 82-move clash against previous co-leader GM Nihal Sarin, Giri caught G...
Iranian teenage GM Sina Movahed won his second consecutive Freestyle Friday, and his third overall, in a field of 115 on September 12 after beating out GMs Magnus Carlsen, Arseniy Nesterov, and Denis Lazavik by a full point. There were two ke...
GMs Matthias Bluebaum and Nihal Sarin continue to lead the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss after round eight. They made a quick draw, and not one of the seven players behind them was able to catch up. GMs Vincent Keymer and Jorden van Foreest, with respecti...
Indian GM Nihal Sarin defeated GM Parham Maghsoodloo to grab the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 5.5/7, where he was joined by GM Matthias Bluebaum, who stunned GM Arjun Erigaisi. GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Hans Niemann, and Vidit ...
Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive Neuralink's brain-computer interface, appeared at Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2025 on Wednesday. After an on-stage conversation about his remarkable journey, Arbaugh capped the session by facing none other t...
The teams in CoachChamps 2025 are set for the main event in October. The eight coaches—GMs Arturs Neiksans, Ben Finegold, IMs Levy Rozman, David Pruess, Andras Toth, WGM Dina Belenkaya, CM Can Kabadayi, and NM Robert Ramirez—have each ...
The late Titled Tuesday tournament may no longer run, but that doesn't mean the Tuesday chess action stops after one tournament, with the previously announced Titled Tuesday After Party happening each week as well. The inaugural After Party, a two...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo drew against GM Arjun Erigaisi to remain sole leader of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss going into the only rest day, while GMs Anish Giri and Nihal Sarin both won sharp games to join a six-player pack half a point behind. World Ch...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday by a full point on September 9, but don't let the final margin fool you into thinking the result was a runaway. Tied with GM Alireza Firouzja entering the final round of play, Carlsen needed to defeat GM Hikaru...
In what is quickly becoming a can't-miss annual tradition, Chess.com is partnering with GM Judit Polgar again in 2025 for Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival. This year's main event is a community simul on September 30 starting at 7:45 a.m. ...
One of the longest-running tournaments in Spain sparked reactions this week after organizers tried to ban Israeli players and prevent them from competing under their national flag. Following backlash from players, media, and warnings from FIDE, th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 70th Iowa Open with a perfect 5/5 score and is 11 games away from reaching the 40 required (by December 31) to be eligible for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. He would qualify by having the highest rating, as GM Mag...
Sixteen-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round five of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, becoming the youngest player ever to defeat a reigning champion in a game of classical chess. GM Parham Maghsoodloo rem...
Turkish prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus won what GM David Howell called an "Evergreen" game in round four of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss to join a 13-way tie for second place behind GM Parham Maghsoodloo. It was mainly draws at the top, but 18-year-o...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk stole the show in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after outscoring 186 of Chess.com's quickest titled players to capture the $400 first prize for the 13th time. Bortnyk's score of 164 positioned him 12 points ahead of the second-pla...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo called GM Alireza Firouzja's bluff to take the sole lead in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, after co-leader GM Anton Demchenko succumbed to GM Arjun Erigaisi's pressure. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu took advantage of GM Boris Gelf...
Duck Chess Champion IM Nhat Minh To defended his title in the 2025 Duck Chess Championship Final, and convincingly so. He won all four of his matches 3-0, literally winning all 12 games, to earn $750. He defeated runner-up IM Eric Rosen (earn...
GM Sina Movahed has become the sixth two-time winner of Freestyle Friday, winning his last six games on September 5 to take first place on tiebreaks ahead of GM Zhamsaran Tsydypov, and 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the 116-player field. The...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the only top-20 seed on a perfect 2/2 after grinding out a win in round two of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, this time with Black against GM Maxim Rodshtein. He's joined in the lead by the 21st seed, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, and ...
