All four 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round-four tiebreaks were won by Indian players. IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy were the first to book Quarterfinals spots, defeating GMs Zhu Jiner and Alexandra Kosteniuk respectively 1.5-0.5 in th...
For the third time in seven weeks, Freestyle Friday was almost over before it started on July 18, with GM Dmitry Andreikin becoming the third player to take the tournament on a perfect 11/11 score, following GM Jeffery Xiong on June 6 and GM Hikar...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a strong field for the highly anticipated FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, scheduled to take place September 3-16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 2025 has been packed with great chess events, but many more...
A 10-hour marathon day at the $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas saw GM Levon Aronian follow up his elimination of GM Magnus Carlsen on Wednesday by knocking out GM Hikaru Nakamura 2.5-1.5 on Thursday. Aronian is joined in the S...
Second seed GM Zhu Jiner struck back with a powerful game against IM Divya Deshmukh to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round four match to tiebreaks. Chinese stars GM Lei Tingjie, GM Tan Zhongyi, and IM Song Yuxin all sealed Quarterfinal sp...
GM Levon Aronian made a statement at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Wednesday by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen 2-0 in a tiebreak showdown, keeping his chances alive of winning the $200,000 first prize, and in the process, condemning Car...
19-year-old Indian IM Divya Deshmukh has one foot in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Quarterfinals after scoring an impressive win over Chinese number-two seed GM Zhu Jiner as round four began in Batumi. The remaining three Chinese players—G...
Nineteen-year-old Dutch IM Eline Roebers set a new record in June, becoming the highest-rated woman in the history of Chess.com. Her new rating of 2932 beat GM Kateryna Lagno's previous record of 2928. ELINE IS UNSTOPPABLE! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g...
NBA superstar Victor "Wemby" Wembanyama is bringing his passion for chess back home. The San Antonio Spurs phenom is hosting a chess tournament in his hometown in France on Sunday, July 20. The French NBA sensation has already given his hometown...
For GM Alexey Sarana, the early Titled Tuesday tournament on July 15 was his 16th career win in the event, and his third of the year. For up-and-coming GM Sina Movahed, the late tournament was his first ever. The established player was the one ...
World number-four GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu headlines a star-studded preliminary list of participants signed up for the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) for the Esports World Cup (EWC), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The LCQ, scheduled for July 24-26, o...
As Chess.com's Fair Play team is shutting down more than 100,000 accounts every month for violating fair play rules, the platform is now considering new measures to combat the constant battle against cheating in online chess. A new blog post tit...
Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo...
IM Song Yuxin has joined fellow 19-year-olds IM Meruert Kamalidenova and IM Umida Omonova in round four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after knocking out GM Anna Muzychuk in round-three tiebreaks. In the six tiebreak matches only one play...
We’re excited to announce that you can now play chess against Steve Aoki’s very own bot on Chess.com! Put on your favorite Steve Aoki track, turn up the volume, and get ready for a high-energy chess match with one of music's most dynam...
GMs Kateryna Lagno and Valentina Gunina struck back against IM Vantika Agrawal and GM Nana Dzagnidze, respectively, to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round-three matches to tiebreaks. Four more matches will be decided Monday, while 10 play...
Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child. While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child. The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared...
NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani dominated the 2025 Chess.com Community Bughouse Championship, although they didn't have the highest FIDE ratings in the field. They won two matches decisively against the second-place team of FM Richard Zheng an...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
GM David Howell is the first grandmaster to triumph in Kids vs. Stars without losing a game after making draws against IM Marco Materia and FM Supratit Banerjee and beating FM Megan Paragua and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. The 3-1 win wasn't easy, with...
