Two former WSCC champions advanced comfortably into the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Women's World Champion (and reigning WSCC Champion) GM Ju Wenjun beat FM Anastasia Avramidou 9.5-4.5, while GM Kateryna Lagno elimi...
OpenAI's o3 took the crown after steamrolling over Grok 4 on the final day of the AI chess exhibition match in Google's Kaggle Game Arena. In the third-place match, Gemini 2.5 Pro defeated o4-mini 3.5-0.5 for the bronze medal. Kaggle Arena Chess...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is Indian number-one and world number-four again after beating GM Awonder Liang in round one of the Masters section of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025. Arjun is joined in the lead by GM Vincent Keymer, who won a time-trou...
Grok 4 and o3 won their semifinal matches against Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini in the AI chess exhibition match in Google's Kaggle Game Arena. While o3's victory was expected, no one could predict the tough battle between Grok and Gemini, which had ...
GM Christopher Yoo has been handed an 18-month suspension from FIDE-rated events after the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) found him guilty of multiple violations, including harassment, psychological abuse, and inappropriate conduct ...
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One country was consistently at the top of Titled Tuesday on August 5 as GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Parham Maghsoodloo, Sina Movahed all scored 10/11 in one of the day's events. The scores were enough for Tabatabaei to win the early event outright and f...
The inaugural day of the AI chess exhibition match in Google's new Kaggle Game Arena project saw dominating performances by four of the Large Language Models (LLMs) on display. Four 4-0 sweeps took Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, Grok 4, and o3 to the Se...
Get ready to mix up your potions and enchant your opponent with your tactics! The 2025 Chess.com Spell Chess Championship is the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, starting on August 14. The event will feature a $2,500 prize fund...
World number-one GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Karina Ambartsumova 11-3 in the opening match of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship, followed immediately by IM Alice Lee beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 8-6 on the same day. While the first match wa...
A unique and powerful approach to understanding AI capabilities, Kaggle Game Arena, in partnership with Google DeepMind, announced a new platform where leading AI models will compete head-to-head in chess and other games. To kick things off, Kag...
At just 14 years old, GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has officially broken into the world's top-100 players, a milestone that once again confirms his status as one of the chess world's most exciting prospects. The Turkish prodigy reached a new career-hi...
Chess' answer to DC Comics' "The Flash," GM Andrew Tang, has joined GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as a top-three all-time Bullet Brawl titlist after winning Saturday's event ahead of 118 titled players. Tang's fast start gave him an ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen is the first ever Chess Esports World Cup Champion after winning the final three games to beat GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final. Carlsen took the $250,000 top prize and saw his Team Liquid sneak ahead in the o...
GM Vladislav Artemiev, who also participated in the 2025 Esports World Cup this week, has taken home the first Freestyle Friday of August, the fourth straight week where someone won the event for the first time. The tournament still in the balance...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen will take on GM Alireza Firouzja in the 2025 Esports World Cup Grand Final after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 4-3 in an epic match decided only in armageddon. Carlsen had earlier defeated GM Nihal Sarin 2.5-0.5, whi...
The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to ever win the event and, through it, earn the gr...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi (Group A), Nihal Sarin (Group B), Hikaru Nakamura (Group C), and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Group D) won their respective Losers Brackets to complete the field of eight players in the 2025 Esports World Cup Quarterfinals. They j...
WFM Bodhana Sivanandan continued her rise in the chess world on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to achieve a Woman Grandmaster (WGM) norm, at just 10 years old. The historic feat came at the Dole Trophy 2025, held from July 19-27 in Ai...
The last Titled Tuesdays of July saw two players, GMs Maksim Chigaev and Salem Saleh, win their first of 2025. For Chigaev, it had been nearly a decade since his previous victory on June 7, 2016, while Saleh previously won on June 28, 2022. Chigae...
GMs Levon Aronian (Group A), Arjun Erigaisi (Group B), Alireza Firouzja (Group C), and Magnus Carlsen (Group D) all won two matches to reach the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Esports World Cup. On their last lives in the Losers Brack...
GM Divya Deshmukh defeated GM Koneru Humpy 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks to win the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She earns not only $50,000, with $35,000 going to the runner-up, but she is also awarded the grandmaster title. Nineteen years old, she is the ...
GM Tan Zhongyi won with the black pieces against GM Lei Tingjie to finish in third place at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She qualifies for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates and earns a $25,000 prize. The match for first place, between IM Divya ...
GMs Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Nihal Sarin, and Javokhir Sindarov have taken the final four spots in the $1.5 million main chess event of the 2025 Esports World Cup. Giri won in the most dramatic fashion, flagging GM Hans Niemann in a losing posit...
16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel impressively scored 161 points in Saturday's Bullet Brawl and 6/8 against 29-time winner GM Daniel Naroditsky to clinch his fourth career title and the $400 first prize. Naroditsky and GM Andrew Tang challenged Gurel bu...
