It wasn't easy, but the St. Louis University (SLU) chess team won the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) championship, defeating the University of Texas, Dallas, 8.5-7.5 in a tense match. SLU also won the championship in the Spring 2025 season, jo...
Update: Anna Cramling's 1.d4 repertoire is now complete with the release of Part 2, fighting the King's Indian, Nimzo-Indian, Dutch, and more Enough with prep collapsing or panicking before move 10—steer the game toward positions that you ...
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GM Andrey Esipenko recovered from his heartbreaking blunder the day before to beat GM Nodirbek Yakubboev. He now leads the battle for both third place in the 2025 FIDE World Cup and the final spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. In the tit...
After nearly four decades, cult classic musical Chess returned to Broadway last weekend, welcomed by many fans and earning a range of reactions from critics. As Chess.com reported back in May, the revival marks the first Broadway production of t...
GM Andrey Esipenko was on course to qualify for the 2025 FIDE World Cup Final and the Candidates but first missed a win and then blundered a whole rook in the next move against GM Wei Yi. The Chinese star will face GM Javokhir Sindarov, after the ...
Turkey's prodigious GM Ediz Gurel won his second Bullet Brawl of the month on Saturday after posting a 22-game unbeaten streak and staving off a late challenge from GM Nihal Sarin. Gurel scored 157 points, three more than the Indian super-GM, and ...
The Semifinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup will be decided in tiebreaks after the second classical games both ended in draws. GM Andrey Esipenko tried to massage a risk-free edge against GM Wei Yi's Petroff, while GM Javokhir Sindarov took an early...
GM Denis Lazavik has booked his spot in the Semifinals of the 2025 Speed Chess Championship and will play GM Magnus Carlsen live in London after defeating GM Hans Niemann 15.5-9.5 on Friday. Lazavik won 11 games and lost only five against Niemann,...
It took tiebreaks to decide a winner in Freestyle Friday on November 21, with GM Pranesh M squeaking by GM Magnus Carlsen to claim his second Freestyle Friday in as many months. Carlsen was the last perfect player in the field of 120, reac...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Renato Terry won the second week of 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 20. GM Magnus Carlsen almost secured his first 3 0 Thursday victory in the first session, but a final-round...
GM Wei Yi found a brilliant sacrificial line to survive against GM Andrey Esipenko in what GM David Howell called "one of the most fun draws I’ve seen throughout the whole 2025 FIDE World Cup so far." The other semifinal game was also drawn,...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his Speed Chess Championship 2025 quarterfinal match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 19-9 to book his ticket to the Live Finals in London. There, he will face GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Semifinals. The last quarterfinal matc...
GM Magnus Carlsen is officially among the 360 players registered for the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Championship, to be held in Doha, Qatar, on December 26-30, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced Thursday. FIDE said 235 players...
GMs Wei Yi, Javokhir Sindarov, and Andrey Esipenko will join GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in the 2025 FIDE World Cup Semifinals after winning their quarterfinal matches in tiebreaks. Respectively, they defeated GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Jose Martinez, and Sam ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura began Titled Tuesday on November 18 with 10/10 to lock up first place with a round to spare. He was held to a draw in the last round by GM Jeffery Xiong, but Nakamura's dominant 10.5/11 score—nearly accomplishing the same ...
The Charlotte Chess Center, the Charlotte Chess Center Foundation, along with GM Daniel Naroditsky's family, have launched the Naroditsky Memorial and Fellowship Fund today, to honor the memory and legacy of the grandmaster. Naroditsky's tragic ...
Three matches go to tiebreaks after four draws in game two of the Quarterfinals in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. One match did end, with GM Nodirbek Yakubboev advancing to the Semifinals after holding a draw against GM Alexander Donchenko, making good ...
The higher seeds dominated in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Playoffs. SRM Institute of Science and Technology handled Texas Tech 11-5, while the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) moved past the ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has booked his ticket for the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Semifinals in London after a nail-biting match against GM Wesley So that went down to the wire. Nakamura built up four and three-point leads, but So twice hit back with...
The Ukrainian Chess Federation has filed a last-minute complaint against the participation of "Team FIDE" in the FIDE Women's World Team Championship, which begins Tuesday in Linares, Spain. The tournament brings together 12 of the world's top w...
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won the only decisive game in game one of the Quarterfinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, against GM Alexander Donchenko. A draw away from reaching the Semifinals, the Uzbek number-three also joins the (unofficial) 2700-club wi...
GM Sam Shankland won a brilliant first game and ended the 2025 FIDE World Cup run of GM Daniil Dubov 2-0 in tiebreaks to reach the Quarterfinals. GM Andrey Esipenko also needed only two tiebreak games to overcome GM Alexey Grebnev, while GM Jose M...
GM Nihal Sarin secured his third Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday after going unbeaten in his last seven games. Nihal scored two wins over GM Hikaru Nakamura, and defeated GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and IM Reza Mahdavi bef...
Second-seed GM Arjun Erigaisi is through to the Quarterfinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup after finding a beautiful finish to eliminate GM Levon Aronian. He'll play seventh-seed GM Wei Yi, who eventually punished an early mistake by GM Sam Sevian. ...
