Norway Chess and the International Chess Federation (FIDE) have announced the qualification paths for the 24-player October 2026 pilot event of the Total Chess World Championship Tour. Reigning World Champions Gukesh Dommaraju and Ju Wenjun are th...
GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals to win the $200,000 first prize. Following up on his win in Las Vegas over the summer, it's his second Grand Slam win in a row. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian will contest the title match of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, where first place comes with $200,000. Carlsen won a close semifinal match against GM Javokhir Sindarov, who won on demand once and ne...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu as the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2025, securing him a spot for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura is also destined to clinch the final ratin...
An undefeated GM Sam Sevian won Titled Tuesday on December 9—his first since 2021—scoring 9.5 points to claim an outright victory ahead of five players on nine points. In that group, GM Denis Lazavik emerged from the tiebreak applicati...
GM Magnus Carlsen lost the first game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, but then won on demand with Black to force tiebreaks. There, he won both blitz games and already clinched the 2025 Freestyle Chess Gran...
Fourteen-year-old Turkish chess prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has beaten 35-year-old world number 15 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-2.5 in Clash of Generations II. Victory in the six-game classical match in the Monte Carlo Chess Club saw Erdogmus ...
On his 20th birthday, GM Javokhir Sindarov finished at the top of the Group Stage with 5.5/7 in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa. In round one, he won the Game of the Day against GM Magnus Carlsen. In second and third were GMs...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is now one title away from securing a landmark 50 Bullet Brawl wins after he won December's first arena while joking about his relative age to the rest of the field. Nakamura scored 53.5/63 for a total score of 180 and barely pu...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov had already won the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament with a day to spare, and all draws in the final round meant he finished two points clear on 7.5/9. He made a solid draw against GM Pavel Eljanov, while second-...
No one could have predicted that Samay Raina, one of the lowest-rated players in the field, would win SuperPogChamps. But the comedian had the last laugh when he defeated Andrea Botez and Sardoche in the Championship Bracket to take the crown. I...
IM Renato Terry won another 3 0 Thursday tournament on December 4, marking the third consecutive week that he's won one of the three events. No one else has won more than once since the event debuted on November 6. GM Vladislav Artemiev and IM Ant...
GM Sina Movahed won Freestyle Friday on December 5 with a round to spare, becoming just the fourth player to win the event at least four times. Even more impressively, Movahed won 10 straight games to end the tournament, persevering despite a loss...
Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha from India was 2.5 years old when he picked up chess. Now he plays up to five hours a day, and at just three years, seven months, and 20 days, he has become the youngest FIDE-rated player. Chess is becoming younger ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov clinched "truly an amazing tournament for me" with a round to spare after forcing a draw from a position of strength against GM Alireza Firouzja. Elsewhere in the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament it was a dream day fo...
Almost all the favorites won their SuperPogChamps quarterfinal matches. Sardoche overpowered Linda Diaz with his chess, while Wirtual's own mouse betrayed him in his match against Andrea Botez. In the Consolation Bracket, Cows went extinct as Sp...
The Finals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025, taking place near Cape Town, South Africa, are just around the corner. The year-long tour brings together eight world-class players to compete in a Chess960 tournament that starts at the Groo...
When Jaguar TCS Racing was looking for someone to help launch their new campaign ahead of Season 12 of the all-electric Formula E Championship, they turned to renowned streamer, content creator, and WFM Anna Cramling. “In chess, every piec...
Samay Raina can make you laugh, and Samay Raina can make you cry. The Indian comedian won every single game in Group B of SuperPogChamps, guaranteeing his spot in the Championship Bracket's semifinals. Sardoche and Wirtual both made it to the uppe...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov now leads the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament by two points with two rounds to go after beating GM Luke McShane for a sixth win in a row. The remaining games were drawn, with second-placed GM Alireza Firouzja frustra...
Today was the first day of something you thought you'd never see. When watching PogChamps, one might expect Botez Gambits, stalemates, and generally the worst chess you've ever seen when tens of thousands of dollars are on the line. That was not...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his second Titled Tuesday in four weeks on December 2, needing only 9.5 points to take the tournament without even needing tiebreaks. He caught and passed GM Sina Movahed in the 11th round, and clinched the outright win when ...
We're excited to announce the final event of this year's Chess.com Community Championships, the Chess.com Fog of War Chess Championship! The event starts on December 11 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Fog of War chess is not a variant fo...
The FIDE World Cup dominated chess headlines in November, leading to several changes in the December 2025 FIDE rating list. No one benefited more than quarterfinalist GM Jose Martinez, known primarily for his Titled Tuesday and other online blitz ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov made it a magnificent five wins in a row at the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament after GM Sam Shankland went astray in a razor-sharp position. Abdusattorov now has a 1.5-point lead over GM Alireza Firouzja, who had to...
