Announced on Monday, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has granted six wildcard invitations for the upcoming 2025 FIDE World Cup, a major tournament in November that will award three seats in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. The winner of that ...
FIDE, the International Chess Federation, in a piece published on Tuesday, announced there are 100 days before the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships are set to take place in Doha, Qatar. While they have kept last year's format for the Blitz...
GMs Matthias Bluebaum and Nihal Sarin continue to lead the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss after round eight. They made a quick draw, and not one of the seven players behind them was able to catch up. GMs Vincent Keymer and Jorden van Foreest, with respecti...
The teams in CoachChamps 2025 are set for the main event in October. The eight coaches—GMs Arturs Neiksans, Ben Finegold, IMs Levy Rozman, David Pruess, Andras Toth, WGM Dina Belenkaya, CM Can Kabadayi, and NM Robert Ramirez—have each ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 70th Iowa Open with a perfect 5/5 score and is 11 games away from reaching the 40 required (by December 31) to be eligible for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. He would qualify by having the highest rating, as GM Mag...
Duck Chess Champion IM Nhat Minh To defended his title in the 2025 Duck Chess Championship Final, and convincingly so. He won all four of his matches 3-0, literally winning all 12 games, to earn $750. He defeated runner-up IM Eric Rosen (earn...
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 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...
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...
Round seven of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup had three decisive games. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu beat GM Alireza Firouzja to join GM Fabiano Caruana in the lead on 4.5/7. GM Wesley So, in his first win of the tournament, beat World Champion Gukesh D...
GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firouzja looked to be on the verge of winning their games, respectively, against GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round six of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, but both ended in draws...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after, for the first time this tournament, a round of all draws. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda came closest to winning against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by finding a brilliant line but mi...
GM Fabiano Caruana won a second game in a row, this time with Black against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to take the sole lead of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup with 3/4. All other games were drawn, leaving GM Levon Aronian and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the only decisive game in round three of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup to knock GM Alireza Firouzja out of the lead. Caruana now leads with GM Levon Aronian, who survived miraculously and drew GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and GM Pr...
GM Alireza Firouzja has joined GMs Levon Aronian and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in leading the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after two rounds. He survived another difficult position, against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and even managed to win the 100-move marath...
GMs Levon Aronian and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu started with wins in the 2025 Sinquefield Cup to take the early lead. Aronian beat GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with the black pieces in our Game of the Day, while Praggnanandhaa won a surprisingly easy-...
The tug of war continues between GM Levon Aronian and GM Fabiano Caruana after day four in the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. After an underwhelming first day of blitz, Caruana has sunk to second place and Aronian has taken his place in the l...
GM Fabiano Caruana nearly set a new record in the Grand Chess Tour with a score of 16/18, but nerves got the better of him and he collapsed from a winning position against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Despite that loss, he continues to lead th...
GM Fabiano Caruana wrested the lead from GM Levon Aronian in the last round of day two in the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. He won their direct encounter to finish the day with 10 points. Tied in second-third are Aronian and GM Wesley So, wh...
GM Levon Aronian leads the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a perfect 6/6 score after the first three rounds of rapid chess. GM Fabiano Caruana had a strong start as well with 5/6—two wins and a draw. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju b...
Velammal MHS School, from India, won the FIDE World Schools Team Championship 2025 with a perfect 8/8 score. The National School of Physics and Mathematics from Kazakhstan took silver with 6/8, while the Harker School from the U.S. took bronze wit...
Two former WSCC champions advanced comfortably into the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Women's World Champion (and reigning WSCC Champion) GM Ju Wenjun beat FM Anastasia Avramidou 9.5-4.5, while GM Kateryna Lagno elimi...
World number-one GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Karina Ambartsumova 11-3 in the opening match of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship, followed immediately by IM Alice Lee beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 8-6 on the same day. While the first match wa...
The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to ever win the event and, through it, earn the gr...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi (Group A), Nihal Sarin (Group B), Hikaru Nakamura (Group C), and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Group D) won their respective Losers Brackets to complete the field of eight players in the 2025 Esports World Cup Quarterfinals. They j...
