GM Alireza Firouzja is the only top-20 player on a perfect 2/2 after round two of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss after he ground out another win, this time with Black against GM Maxim Rodshtein. He's joined in the lead by 21st seed, GM Parham Maghsoodl...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju was among only 17 of 116 players to win in the first round of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss in Samarkand, with other stars getting off to a quick start including GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Anish Gi...
GM Vadim Zvjaginsev is quietly building an impressive unbeaten streak. The 49-year-old grandmaster is up to 92 games without a single loss in classical chess, putting him in sight of the 100-game mark. Yet, instead of climbing on the rating list, ...
The next era of Titled Tuesday began on September 2 with GM Alexey Sarana taking home the honors in the day's only tournament. With 9.5 points, Sarana was able to come out ahead of GM Andrey Esipenko on tiebreaks for his second consecutive victory...
Thirty-six-year-old GM Igor Kovalenko played his first tournament outside of Ukraine in three years as he made nine draws in the recent 2025 Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica-Zdroj, Poland. The world number-54 is still a soldier but revealed he was ...
Chess.com’s Chief Chess Officer, IM Danny Rensch, hosted State of Chess on Tuesday to share all the latest updates for Chess.com. Joining him were several special guests including GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Levy Rozman. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura this weekend scored 7/7 to win the 2025 Louisiana State Championship in New Orleans. Why was the world number-two playing a $3,000 event where his toughest rival was 2344-rated FM Nicholas Matta? It's all about qualification for...
We're excited to announce our newest weekly prize events for titled players and streamers, The After Party and The Untitled After Party! Starting September 9, the new After Party series will feature a weekly prize fund and the beloved arena format...
Arena Kings, Chess.com's longest-running tournament for creators, is undergoing changes starting October 1. The event will feature a new format and cadence that will help creators build and engage their communities. The new Arena Kings will now ...
The North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) is returning to Chess.com this fall. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess competition in the world and includes some of the world's best-known companies and small businesses! What Is The NA...
Twenty-two-year-old Kirill Shevchenko has become only the fourth player in chess history to be stripped of the GM title, after the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) rejected his appeal in one of the most high-profile over-the-board che...
You’ve played with them, now play against them. This month’s bot challenge is to square off against the pieces themselves! Can you beat them at their own game? Go to our Play Computer page and find out! The Pawn Playing strength: ...
GM Wesley So is back in the top-10 on the September 2025 FIDE rating list after winning the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, while 20-year-old GM Vincent Keymer has broken into the club for the first time after winning the 2025 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen's career as a fashion model is not over. Now the 34-year-old has made a comeback with Dutch fashion brand G-Star for its Fall 2025 campaign, marking a continuation of a 15-year-long collaboration. G-Star releas...
GM Daniel Naroditsky scooped up his 31st Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize on Saturday after outpacing 119 titled players for the second week in a row. An electric 15/16 start helped the 29-year-old commentator amass an unassaila...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his fourth Freestyle Friday on August 29, moving past GM Arjun Erigaisi for the second-most in the tournament's brief history, trailing only GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Nakamura who finished second this week, half a point b...
The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League (GCL) is back for its third season, again with a jaw-dropping lineup of the strongest players in the world. Now, for the first time ever, amateur and titled players alike can compete in the GCL Contenders, an ...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce GothamChess vs. The World, an exclusive Vote Chess match between IM Levy Rozman and the global chess community, starting September 30. Will the internet's most-watched chess streamer be able to outwit the collecti...
GM Wesley So has won the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, his second time winning the elite event he first won in 2016. While all the other classical games ended in draws, So won on demand against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to reach three-way blitz tiebreaks w...
WIM Yosha Iglesias had already made chess history by becoming the first transgender woman international master. Last weekend, the 37-year-old added another accomplishment by winning the French Women's Championship, as the second transgender woman ...
Are you ready to compete in one of the craziest variants ever invented? The Chess.com Duck Chess Championship is coming on September 4 and will feature a $2,500 prize fund. With the most savage tactics and a fearsome rubber duck, anything can happ...
On the day Chess.com announced several changes to Titled Tuesday, including the retirement of the late tournament, GMs Minh Le and Alexey Sarana became the last players to split the day's glory. Le was nearly perfect, scoring 10.5 points with only...
The standings at the top remain unchanged after the penultimate round of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup. GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead before the final round, after draws respectively with GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and We...
FIDE has announced that the 2025 Chess World Cup will be held in Goa, India, between October 30 and November 27, 2025. The World Cup is a biennial knockout tournament that features most of the world's top players. This year's event features 206 pa...
Get ready for a brand new era of Titled Tuesday! As recently announced, this 11-year-old institution is becoming part of the Champions Chess Tour qualification cycle for the Esports World Cup (EWC). The new Titled Tuesday season kicks off on Septe...
