The latest news from Chess.com. https://www.chess.com/ 2026 Chess.com The $10,000 weekly prize fund isn't quite here yet in Titled Tuesday, but participation was up significantly on May 12, to 436 players after last week's 343 participants. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won a dramatic tournament on tiebreaks ahead of GM Jef... https://www.chess.com/news/view/nepomniachtchi-wins-titled-tuesday-may-12-2026 Tue, 12 May 2026 12:22:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/nepomniachtchi-wins-titled-tuesday-may-12-2026 A new book by best-selling author Ben Mezrich offers the most detailed account yet of the controversy between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, revealing new details behind what became the biggest scandal in modern chess. In Checkmate: Genius... https://www.chess.com/news/view/ben-mezrich-checkmate-carlsen-niemann-controversy Mon, 11 May 2026 22:54:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/ben-mezrich-checkmate-carlsen-niemann-controversy It took GM Axel Smith more than 29 hours to complete a 49-board blindfold simul this weekend. The Swedish grandmaster scored a dominant 41-8—but said afterward that raising awareness for a climate cause mattered more than the result or any r... https://www.chess.com/news/view/axel-smith-completes-49-board-blindfold-simul Mon, 11 May 2026 14:12:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/axel-smith-completes-49-board-blindfold-simul Titled Tuesday is getting its biggest prize fund ever. Starting June 2, the event will feature a weekly $10,000 prize fund, bringing its yearly total to more than $500,000—more than three times the current purse. Titled Tuesday has become ... https://www.chess.com/news/view/titled-tuesday-new-10k-prize-fund Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/titled-tuesday-new-10k-prize-fund Another path to the prestigious Esports World Cup (EWC) has been revealed. Players can now participate in India Rising for a $30,000 prize fund and, most importantly, one spot at the EWC in Riyadh. The event mixes online qualifiers with a thrillin... https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-india-rising-2026 Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-india-rising-2026 History was made when IM Faustino Oro sealed his final grandmaster norm with a round to spare at the Sardinia World Chess Festival in Italy on Saturday. The Argentinian "Messi of Chess" becomes the second-youngest player ever to earn the title. ... https://www.chess.com/news/view/faustino-oro-seals-title-to-become-2nd-youngest-gm-ever-at-12 Mon, 11 May 2026 07:38:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/faustino-oro-seals-title-to-become-2nd-youngest-gm-ever-at-12 Bullet Brawl was set alight on Saturday by another junior talent, GM Andy Woodward, who blazed his way to a debut title ahead 191 titled players. Fresh off a solid performance at TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2026, Woodward put on an... https://www.chess.com/news/view/andy-woodward-wins-bullet-brawl-may-9-2026 Sat, 09 May 2026 18:08:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/andy-woodward-wins-bullet-brawl-may-9-2026 GM Hans Niemann has won the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the biggest tournament win of his career so far, to earn the $50,000 first prize. Following up on last year's winner, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, it's the second year in a row that a wildc... https://www.chess.com/news/view/niemann-wins-2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland Sat, 09 May 2026 07:53:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/niemann-wins-2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland GM Dmitry Andreikin has been crowned as the winner of the 2026 Chess.com King of the Hill Championship on Friday, marking the first time that a super-GM has won a Chess.com Community Chess Championship event.  In the wake of a match loss to... https://www.chess.com/news/view/dmitry-andreikin-wins-2026-king-of-the-hill-community-championship Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/dmitry-andreikin-wins-2026-king-of-the-hill-community-championship Even after ending the day with three losses, GM Hans Niemann leads the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after the first nine rounds of blitz. GM Wesley So wasn't able to catch up as he lost two out of the last four games himself, making draws i... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-4 Fri, 08 May 2026 14:50:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-4 GM Vincent Keymer won Freestyle Friday on May 8 by a full point, scoring 9.5/11 ahead of IM Marco Materia and GM Pranav Venkatesh. Keymer only scored 0.5/2 against Materia and Pranav individually, but won every other game to become the first playe... https://www.chess.com/news/view/keymer-wins-freestyle-friday-may-8-2026 Fri, 08 May 2026 12:35:24 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/keymer-wins-freestyle-friday-may-8-2026 GMs Jose Martinez and Alexey Sarana have been scoring victories in 3 0 Thursday tournaments since the very first day of the event, and both players added to their trophy cases on May 7. Sarana won the first tournament of the day before finishing h... https://www.chess.com/news/view/sarana-martinez-martinez-3-0-thursday-05-07-2026 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:41:11 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/sarana-martinez-martinez-3-0-thursday-05-07-2026 Have you ever studied a bunch of lines in an opening, just to see your opponent playing something completely different? Your struggle is finally over, as you can now access Chess.com's game database. Check what other people are playing and take yo... https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-chesscom-games-database Fri, 08 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-chesscom-games-database GM Hans Niemann leads the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after nine rounds of rapid chess, with 18 rounds of blitz to come in the next two days. A win against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in round eight, accompanied by two draws, was enough to break... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-3 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:40:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-3 GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament after grinding out a trademark classical win over GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and then beating GM Arjun Erigaisi 2-1 in blitz tiebreaks. Arjun began the day as sole leader but needed luck... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-7 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:34:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-7 GMs Wesley So and Hans Niemann lead the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after six rounds, with GM Vladimir Fedoseev just one point behind in sole second. Lagging two points behind him are GMs Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh Dommaraju (who will be cele... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-2 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:18:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-2 GM Arjun Erigaisi ground out a 67-move win over GM Zhu Jiner to go into the final round of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament as the sole leader on 4.5/6. GM Magnus Carlsen is half a point back after using the King's Indian Defense to take dow... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-6 Wed, 06 May 2026 12:41:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-6 Swedish GM Axel Smith is preparing for an extraordinary test of mental endurance by playing 49 blindfold games simultaneously, not just in pursuit of a record, but to raise awareness for a climate campaign. On Thursday, May 7, the Swedish grandm... https://www.chess.com/news/view/gm-axel-smith-to-attempt-record-49-board-blindfold-simul Wed, 06 May 2026 09:48:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/gm-axel-smith-to-attempt-record-49-board-blindfold-simul For most players, a six-month wait between Titled Tuesday victories would not be remarkable; hundreds play every single week, yet only a few dozen players have even won twice ever. But for all-time victories leader GM Hikaru Nakamura, months betwe... https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-titled-tuesday-may-5-2026 Wed, 06 May 2026 02:03:15 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-titled-tuesday-may-5-2026 Stow the provisions, open the sails, and take on the scourge of the seven seas! A parrot, a captain, an Internet pirate, a legend, and a chess master. Can you beat all five bots before they sail into the sunset? Challenge them on the Play Computer... https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-pirate-bots Tue, 05 May 2026 12:14:25 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-pirate-bots GM Arjun Erigaisi pounced on a blunder by GM Jorden van Foreest to grab his second win and join GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus in the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament lead. Erdogmus escaped with a 104-move draw vs. GM Andy Woodward, while GM Magnus Carl... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-5 Tue, 05 May 2026 11:48:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-5 A last-round win by GM Fabiano Caruana over GM Wesley So, who had been leading, left five players on 4/6 after three rounds at the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour. Besides Caruana and So, other lea... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-1 Tue, 05 May 2026 10:41:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-super-rapid-blitz-poland-day-1 GM Jorden van Foreest is the first player to beat GM Magnus Carlsen in classical chess since GM Gukesh Dommaraju's famous win in Norway Chess 2025. Carlsen looked set to escape a tough game intact but finally fell in a nail-biting endgame, while G... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-4 Mon, 04 May 2026 12:01:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-4 GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and Arjun Erigaisi picked up their first wins of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to reach a five-way tie for the lead with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Andy Woodward. Erdogmus is up to 2711.9 and wo... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-3 Sun, 03 May 2026 10:41:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-3 "That was a fun game, for sure!" said GM Magnus Carlsen after risking the Benoni to beat GM Nils Grandelius and join the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament leaders after round two. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov let a winning position slip three times a... https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-2 Sat, 02 May 2026 16:50:00 -0700 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-round-2