GM Magnus Carlsen seemed to be on his way to extending his lead in Norway Chess 2025 by another three points with a second win against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. In a losing endgame, however, the 19-year-old GM pounced on a blunder and turne...
Newly minted IM Reza Mahdavi became the 13th player and the second IM to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after outclassing 175 titled players in Saturday's event. Mahdavi posted a scorching 62.5/73, which earned him a final score of 221 and sa...
Round five of Norway Chess 2025 featured three classical draws followed by three armageddon wins. GM Magnus Carlsen won the armageddon game with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana to extend his lead. GM Hikaru Nakamura had winning chances in both th...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk took home his third Freestyle Friday on May 30, tying him with GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Arjun Erigaisi for the most so far, and he did it with a last-minute comeback. Bortnyk scored 9.5/11, passing GM Leon Luke Mendonca in the ...
For the first time since its original run in 1988, the cult musical Chess will get its long-awaited Broadway return in New York City this fall. The production will star Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele, Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Ch...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a smooth win over GM Arjun Erigaisi in round four of Norway Chess 2025 to take the sole lead after GM Fabiano Caruana missed a classical win over GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The relieved world champion stormed to an armageddon wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Arjun Erigaisi in round three of Norway Chess 2025 to take the sole lead, while World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, on his 19th birthday, hit back after two losses to defeat GM Hikaru Nakamura. GM Magnus Carlsen had another...
GM Wesley So and Minh Le each won outright with a score of 10/11 in the May 27 editions of Titled Tuesday, the final tournaments of the 2025 Titled Tuesday Grand Prix. Le's performance carried him into the top eight in the Grand Prix standings, gu...
19-year-old GM Javokhir Sindarov was declared the winner of Sweden's prestigious TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament after drawing with the legendary GM Vasyl Ivanchuk in the seventh and final round on Monday. Sindarov's score of 4.5/7 placed...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has joined GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Norway Chess 2025 lead after handing a second loss in a row to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. GM Fabiano Caruana bounced back with a fine win over GM Wei Yi, while GM Magnus Carlsen fir...
WFM Anna Cramling's Grand Chess Gala on Twitch Rivals is right around the corner! To celebrate Anna making it to TwitchCon's main stage, Chess.com is offering all our basic members the opportunity to get 14 days of our Diamond membership for free....
GM Magnus Carlsen won a spectacular king hunt to beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Norway Chess 2025 in their first classical game since Gukesh won the title. The day's other classical winner was GM Hikaru Nakamura, who ground down GM Fabian...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is one step closer to qualifying for the 2025 Esports World Cup and $6,000 richer after winning the DreamHack Dallas 2025. Bortnyk won the double-elimination knockout final on Sunday and posted match wins over GMs Alexey Saran...
GM Anish Giri has won the 2025 Sharjah Masters after defeating GM Aditya Mittal in 91 moves in the final round to finish on 7/9. GMs Aleksandar Indjic and Nodirbek Abdusattorov finished half a point behind, while the other big winner of the event ...
The chess world has a new record-breaker. 10-year-old Roman Shogdzhiev from Russia has become the youngest International Master (IM) in history, smashing the record by over five months and reinforcing his status as one of the chess world's most ex...
GM Daniel Naroditsky attained his 28th Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize after scoring 247 points on Saturday. GM Hikaru Nakamura was Naroditsky's main adversary but couldn't keep pace with Naroditsky, who worked through a record-br...
GM Minh Le won the May 23 edition of Freestyle Friday with 9.5 points, beating out a field of 243 players, including GM Luca Moroni Jr. on tiebreaks. It was the first win in Freestyle Friday for the eight-time Titled Tuesday champion Le. Le scor...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Chess.com Classic with a game to spare. In the Grand Final against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, he won a 24-move miniature in game one, drew game two, and then won a rook endgame in game three to finish the match e...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won three matches in the Losers Bracket to earn his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final against GM Magnus Carlsen. He won his first match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in armageddon, accepting a draw with Black...
GM Anish Giri leads the 2025 Sharjah Masters with four points from five rounds, together with GMs Aleksandar Indjic and Dai Changren. The group just half a point behind includes 2700 stars GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Parham Maghsoodloo, but also...
GM Magnus Carlsen earned his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final after knocking GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura out of the Winners Bracket. In a hard-to-believe finale, Nakamura seemed on the verge of a comeback in game fo...
As the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix nears its conclusion, with just two tournaments now remaining, the players we will see at the 2025 Speed Chess Championship are coming into view. GM Dmitry Andreikin won the first tournament of Titled Tuesday on Ma...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Ian Nepomniachtchi are the last ones standing in the Winners Bracket after day one of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Playoffs. On their last lives in the Losers Bracket are eight mor...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen was held to a draw by more than 143,000 players in the Magnus vs. The World game on Chess.com, the largest online chess game ever held. The historic game ended on Tuesday after 32 moves when The World forced a ...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top 15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
