GM Vladimir Fedoseev pounced on an endgame mistake to beat GM Fabiano Caruana in round five of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters and has now defeated the world numbers one, two, and four in the space of four months. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov caught...
GM Gata Kamsky, a former FIDE world championship challenger and world number-four, spoke earnestly about his difficult past on Ilya Levitov's YouTube channel in an interview made available in English last week (originally recorded in October). T...
Titled Tuesday set a participation record for the third straight week on January 21, with 996 players joining, the most of the doubles era (since February 1, 2022). GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight Titled Tuesday in the event with tiebre...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has criticized Freestyle Chess for branding its upcoming Grand Slam tour as a "World Championship," claiming the move threatens to divide the chess community and warning of potential legal action. The on...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the sole leader of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters on 3.5/4 after smoothly outplaying GM Leon Luke Mendonca for a third win in a row. GM Pentala Harikrishna scored the day's most beautiful win by sacrificing both ...
Missouri and Saint Louis were the first victors of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) as the fresh season kicked off on Saturday. The returning champion Missouri team defeated Virginia by a massive 11-point margin. Their bottom ...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored the only wins in round three of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters to take the lead on 2.5/3. Praggnanandhaa outplayed GM Arjun Erigaisi in a strategic masterpiece, while Abdusattorov s...
No one has a perfect score after round two of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters, but GMs Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu all won to join GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Vincent Keymer in the lead on 1.5/2. There coul...
GM Daniel Naroditsky snatched victory from GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja and secured his third straight Bullet Brawl title after chalking up two five-move wins over CM Volen Dyulgerov and Firouzja in the dying seconds of the arena. Narod...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju has won his first game as world champion despite staring defeat in the face against GM Anish Giri in round one of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. Giri blundered last, while Gukesh's world championship helpers GMs Vincent Key...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and Kick are thrilled to present Chess 4 The Masses Sponsored by Kick, a two-tournament event for untitled players that will begin on January 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET/20:00 CET, following in the footsteps of past collaborations betwee...
For the first time since its inception, GM Ray Robson is not the winner of the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Championship. Fourteen-year-old GM Andy Woodward, who was the runner-up in 2024, reversed the narrative this year. He also picked up $1,500 ...
We're excited to announce our newest event, the NextGen Cup! The $20,000 event will take place on February 6 and feature 10 of the African diaspora's most prominent players and personalities. Among the confirmed players, fans will see boy-...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju will play his first official game as world champion against GM Anish Giri on Saturday as the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters begins. Half of the top-10 are in action, with Gukesh joined by GMs Fabiano Caruana, Arjun Erigaisi, Nod...
GMs Ray Robson, Andy Woodward, Daniel Naroditsky, Pranav Venkatesh, and Raunak Sadhwani, as well as IMs Liam Putnam, Yoseph Theolifus Taher, and Anthony Atasanov, have qualified for the eight-player Knockout in the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Champions...
World Chess Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Viswanathan Anand's talents extend beyond the chessboard, as they demonstrated in a hilarious new video ad. Gukesh has been doing anything but playing chess since winning the title from GM Ding Lir...
On January 14, Titled Tuesday cracked 900 participants for the first time since June 2, 2020, with a total of 905 players. It was the second straight week setting the doubles era record (since February 1, 2022). Out of those 905 hopeful winners, t...
We're excited to announce Freestyle Friday, the new weekly tournament for Titled Players presented by Freestyle Chess. The event will take place every Friday at 11 a.m. ET / 17:00 CET / 9:30 p.m. IST starting January 24 and feature a $1,000 prize ...
A major cheating scandal has rocked the world of Chinese chess and tarnished the reputation of one of China's most cherished traditional games. A number of the game's best players have been handed lifetime bans. Chinese chess, also known as Xian...
"It's of course very, very nice to start off married life as a chess player with a win!” said GM Magnus Carlsen after beating GM Max Warmerdam in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday. His first classical game in almost four months helped St. Pauli ...
GM Volodar Murzin, the newly crowned World Rapid Chess Champion, has shared the harrowing story about how he and his family escaped the violent grip of his abusive father. The 18-year-old grandmaster sensationally became the second-youngest rapi...
GM Daniel Naroditsky picked up right where he left off in the previous edition of Bullet Brawl, scoring 233 points and winning Saturday's event in a field featuring the world number-four, GM Arjun Erigaisi, and 246 other titled players. Startin...
At just nine years old, FM Roman Shogdzhiev has broken the record to become the youngest player in history to score an international master (IM) norm. He is also one of just three players to cross the 2300 barrier before age 10. The exceptional ...
GM Zhu Jiner, the world's 10th highest-rated female player, has called out FIDE for giving her a fine for allegedly violating the dress code policy, claiming it disrupted her performance and contributed to her being knocked out of the 2024 Women's...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Semifinals and then GM Javokhir Sindarov in a thrilling Final to clinch the last spot in next month's $750,000 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. 19-year-old Sindarov inflicted the o...
