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GM Victor Mikhalevski of Israel won the 50+ section at the FIDE World Senior Championships in Gallipoli, Italy, on Saturday. IM Alexander Reprintsev of Ukraine edged out five other players on tiebreaks to win the 65+ group. In the Women's sections...
Girls who start with the same age and rating as boys will continue to play chess at a similar rate and at a similar level as those boys, especially in areas where participation is more gender-balanced. A new study, published in Chance and co-funde...
SuperChess, the Romanian club with an in-form world champion on top board, won the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday. Scoring an undefeated 4/5, GM Gukesh Dommaraju is back in the world's top 10. Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won t...
GM Fabiano Caruana and IM Carissa Yip repeated their U.S. Championship victories once again on Friday in St. Louis. Caruana was the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to win four consecutive U.S. titles, earning $67,000, while Yip has now won it ...
GM Fabiano Caruana kept his half-point lead over GM Wesley So as both top GMs won their games in the penultimate round of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship on Thursday in St. Louis. GM Levon Aronian drew his game and is now a point behind So. By ...
With two rounds to go at the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, GM Fabiano Caruana is the sole leader thanks to a win against GM Sam Shankland on Wednesday. In the only other decisive game, GM Hans Niemann recovered from back-to-back ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So drew their games on Monday and are still leading the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship going into the second rest day. GM Levon Aronian, who beat GM Sam Shankland, is the only player now trailing by half a point. ...
GM Fabiano Caruana bulldozed his pawns through GM Hans Niemann's kingside to reach a forced checkmate on Saturday in St. Louis. America's number two now leads with GM Wesley So, who put an end to GM Andy Woodward's winning ways. A very adventurous...
GM Fabiano Caruana missed a huge chance to grab the sole lead at the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis on Saturday, failing to force a checkmate in nine moves against GM Wesley So. Alongside several more draws, GM Andy Woodward won his sec...
The Ukrainian Open team and the Polish Women's team won the 2025 European Team Championships in Batumi, Georgia on Tuesday. Both teams were in the lead after round five and suffered subsequent losses but managed to clinch the gold medals after all...
Team USA beat Team India 5-0 on Saturday evening at the highly innovative Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas. In the last game of the day, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Gukesh Dommaraju, literally grabbed his opponent's king, and t...
Playing solid chess on the final day of blitz, GM Levon Aronian won the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after securing first place with two rounds to go. A lackluster GM Fabiano Caruana said he "stopped being able to play chess" but still finis...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and IM Polina Shuvalova have advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. While Kosteniuk was clearly too strong for IM Carissa Yip (11-4), Shuvalova only narrowly beat IM Meri Arabidze (7-6) i...
GM Alexander Fishbein clinched the U.S. Senior Championship title by winning a playoff on Friday with GM Vladimir Akopian and GM Alexander Shabalov after all three had finished in a tie for first. Fishbein earned $23,167. GM Andy Woodward was the ...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev emerged as the winner of the grueling Biel Masters Triathlon, an event that required him to play a total of 30 games in Chess960, blitz, rapid, and classical formats over 11 days. The Russian grandmaster, who lives in Germany ...
IM Carissa Yip won the Cairns Cup 2025 on Thursday in St. Louis after drawing a dramatic final game with IM Alice Lee, who needed a win for a GM norm and tournament victory. A draw was enough for Yip to score her second GM norm instead, with a 261...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's fast rise to the highest echelons in chess continued last week in Jermuk, Armenia, where the 25-year-old Indian grandmaster edged out GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on tiebreaks to win the Stepan Avagyan Memorial. Aravindh...
The Czech-German grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, a former world number-six, a candidate for the world championship, and a commentator renowned for his wit and humor, died on Monday at the age of 81. The news was confirmed by the Czech Chess Federation...
The Taliban government has suspended chess in Afghanistan. Currently reviewing the game over gambling concerns, the Taliban has also suspended the Afghanistan National Chess Federation (ANCF). It is far from the first time that the game of kings i...
Twenty-year-old Thalia from Chester, United Kingdom, won BBC's Chess Masters: The Endgame after beating Richie (63, Liverpool) in the eighth and final episode aired on Monday. The first episode of Chess Masters attracted just under 1.2 million vie...
Drawing her game with IM Salome Melia was enough for GM Zhu Jiner to become the sole leader at the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix with 2.5/3. That was because co-leader IM Divya Deshmukh lost her first game, with the black pieces to GM Humpy Ko...
GM Zhu Jiner and IM Divya Deshmukh won their second games on Tuesday and lead the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a perfect 2/2 score. Whereas Zhu needed 66 moves to grind down IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul in a rook endgame, Divya was the f...
The 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix saw an action-packed first round on Monday with four decisive games. GM Zhu Jiner, IM Polina Shuvalova, IM Divya Deshmukh, and IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul all won against GM Harika Dronavalli, IM Alina Kashlinskay...
Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster, two-time Nordic Champion, six-time Icelandic champion, the oldest living candidate for the world chess championship, and former FIDE President, passed away on Friday April 4 aged 90 after enduri...
A solid draw with the black pieces vs. GM Fabiano Caruana was all GM Hikaru Nakamura needed to win The American Cup Grand Final on Sunday in St. Louis. Nakamura won the $75,000 first prize plus a $15,000 Champion's Bracket bonus, with $55,000...
