GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Bibisara Assaubayeva are the 2026 Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women champions. Assaubayeva ran away with it, while Praggnanandhaa came clutch in a comeback that shocked the other players and even himself. Let's...
Ukrainian WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the most remarkable upsets of European championship history, winning the European Women's Championship outright in Batumi, Georgia. The 15-year-old entered the tournament as the 76th seed in a fi...
IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008. The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his 2026 Bullet Brawl victory streak with a barnstorming performance in Saturday's event, racing to a 201-point victory with no rivals in sight. The American superstar finished a commanding 58 points ahead of Ukrainian...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the Norway Chess 2026 champion after beating GM Vincent Keymer to complete an amazing run of four classical wins to end the tournament. GM Wesley So finished second after beating GM Alireza Firouzja in armageddon, a...
On June 5, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the first player to win nine Freestyle Fridays and to win three in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship. A fast 9/9 start was enough to hang on to outright victory through an 0.5/2 finish as Bortnyk returns...
GM Denis Lazavik, who won Titled Tuesday this week with a dominant 10/11 score, repeated the performance in the first 3 0 Thursday tournament on June 4, scoring another 10 points to take clear first place. The second and third tournaments of the d...
GM Wesley So continues to lead Norway Chess 2026 after round nine, but that lead has thinned to a half-point over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. So drew GM Magnus Carlsen and then won the critical extra half-point in armageddon, while Praggnanandha...
The Esports World Cup qualifiers may have already been decided, but there was still much to play for in Titled Tuesday on June 2, with a new prize fund of $10,000. The new prizes attracted a field of more than 500 players for the first time since ...
Round eight of Norway Chess 2026 will go down as one of the most shocking, with two decisive classical games. GM Wesley So leads after making the only classical draw against GM Vincent Keymer and then winning in armageddon, but we saw world number...
The quantitative trading firm Jane Street won the North American Corporate Chess League's 13th season on May 28, winning three rounds of playoff matches, including an exciting final against JPMorgan Chase. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess ...
Calling all speed addicts! The world's fastest players will meet again to battle in the next edition of the Bullet Chess Championship starting June 22. With a $50,000 prize fund and the most dangerous bullet players in the world, drama is all but ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi lost a tight tiebreak match to GM Magnus Carlsen in the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament in May. While he couldn't quite take first place, Arjun's strong 5/8 performance earned him 10 rating points, raising his rating to 2761. That ...
GM Wesley So leads Norway Chess 2026 after round seven, with GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5 points behind. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju achieved a winning position against So but couldn't see it through in the classical game; despite winning the armag...
GM Wesley So leads Norway Chess 2026 after a bloody round six that ended in three decisive results. So inflicted a second consecutive loss on GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and took the lead, while GM Magnus Carlsen exacted revenge on GM Alireza Fir...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk claimed his 17th career Bullet Brawl title on Saturday, outlasting a 171-player titled field to win the latest edition with a score of 154 points. The Ukrainian speed-chess specialist finished nine points clear of IM Renato Te...
All three classical games could have been decisive in round five of Norway Chess 2026, but we got two Black wins and only one draw. GM Vincent Keymer missed a chance in his classical encounter against tournament leader GM Alireza Firouzja, who won...
GM Volodar Murzin won Freestyle Friday on May 29 with a wire-to-wire win in which he lost no games, taking the tournament outright on a 10/11 score for his first victory ever in the event. All of the top four spots were won without tiebreaks, in f...
GM Jose Martinez and IM Renato Terry have been competing for the most 3 0 Thursday victories since the event debuted last November. On May 28, both players won a tournament, bringing their totals to 14 and 13 victories, respectively. GM Jan-Krzysz...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the only classical win of round four of Norway Chess 2026, exorcising the ghost of their infamous table-slam game from the 2025 event. GM Alireza Firouzja continues to lead...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu moved up to second place in Norway Chess 2026 after a rollercoaster win over GM Magnus Carlsen, who had fought his way back from the dead to a winning position only to collapse in time trouble. GM Alireza Firouzja lead...
It took him three tries, but Patriots receiver Mack Hollins was thrilled to take his first BlitzChamps title on May 26. Hollins won every match, including a tough finals against Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, to win the event ahead of seven ...
GM Alireza Firouzja scored the day's only classical win, over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, to open up a 3.5-point lead in Norway Chess 2026 with a perfect 6/6. GM Magnus Carlsen beat GM Vincent Keymer in armageddon, but that was little consolatio...
The organizers of the Esports Nations Cup (ENC), the Esports Foundation (EF), have revealed new details about the event's qualification and wildcard systems. The announcement includes details about how chess players can qualify for the event and h...
