In week six of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) the last two remaining undefeated teams faced-off in a rematch of last season's championship round. Saint Louis University narrowly avenged that match with an 8.5-7.5 win against Univers...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja, and 2023 Champion GM Fabiano Caruana top the nine-player lineup for the $1.6 million 2025 Grand Chess Tour. GMs Levon Aronian and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who replace GMs Ian Nepo...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram continue to share the lead by a full point after their draw in round five of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Wei Yi reached a 50-percent score after winning the only decisive game,...
The rise of of chess in esports continues. On Saturday, Team Falcons announced the signing of none other than GM Alireza Firouzja, while Wolves Esports made their first acquisition with Chinese star GM Yu Yangyi. Firouzja, a 21-year-old Iranian-...
GM Hikaru Nakamura made a resounding statement in Saturday's Bullet Brawl, dominating the strongest edition in history after scoring 75.5/80 and accumulating 286 points. IM Yoseph Taher and GM Sam Sevian rounded out the podium, finishing well belo...
There are two leaders after four rounds at the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters: Indian GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram, a point ahead of the field. Praggnanandhaa scored his second consecutive victory, with Black against...
GM Magnus Carlsen's world famous jeans from the 2024 World Rapid Championship have been sold at auction for a staggering $36,100. The proceeds will go to charity. An anonymous bidder had the highest bid on Saturday following a 10-day bidding war...
Martin's your first chess opponent. He's played over 500 million games. And he's never gotten any better. Now, it's time to meet his family: Martin Jr., Marty, Martin XIII, and Martina. Are you ready to face off against the Martin family? Head o...
FM Matfey Rogov now holds two Chess.com variant titles after the 17-year-old won the 2025 Chess.com 3-Check Championship in a thrilling Grand Final Reset. Rogov, who is also the site's Atomic Chess champion, played the "game of the tournament" to ...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram took the sole lead of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after winning his game in round three against GM Wei Yi. There were two more decisive results: GM Vincent Keymer bounced back from yesterday's loss by beating GM...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday outright over a field of 307 players on February 28, doing so with a win over erstwhile leader GM Shant Sargsyan in the final round. GM Hikaru Nakamura ended up taking second place from Sargsyan on tiebreaks,...
Eight players have qualified for the 3-Check Chess Championship 2025 Knockout, the second event of this year's Community Chess Championships (following January's Puzzle Championship). The eight hopefuls for the Knockout ended up being FM Luuk Base...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina drew against IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to win the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix, her second Grand Prix victory in a row. She finished top on tiebreaks ahead of Munguntuul and GM Koneru Humpy, who took down IM Bibisara...
GM Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess who defeated “Iron” GM Tigran Petrosian in 1969 to reach the chess Olympus and who lost his title to GM Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik, died on Thursday...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Vincent Keymer and has taken his place in the lead of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round two. That was the only decisive game of the round. GM Sam Shankland remains in the lead after drawing wit...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina and IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul won in the penultimate round of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix to catch leader GM Kateryna Lagno, who made a quick draw against GM Koneru Humpy. GM Tan Zhongyi beat IM Bibisara Assauba...
GMs Sam Shankland and Vincent Keymer won in the opening round of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. Shankland's victory was the second game to end, when one mistake led to a breezy endgame win against GM Ediz Gurel, while Keymer grinded a lon...
Iran's current and former number-one players, GM Parham Maghsoodloo and France's GM Alireza Firouzja, were your Titled Tuesday winners on February 25. Maghsoodloo won outright with 10 points, while Firouzja needed tiebreaks for his 9.5 points to w...
IM Sara Khadem suffered every chess player's worst nightmare in round seven of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix when, after over five hours and 74 moves, she resigned against GM Koneru Humpy in an equal position. Humpy joins GM Aleksan...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues to assert his dominance in the Champions Chess Tour, a series only he has won every year since it began in 2020. He started off on the right foot this year by winning the first leg of the event, the Chessable Masters.&n...
Tactics win games, period. And when the opportunity comes to land a game-ending blow, you must be ready for it! Master the most common tactics with FM Frank Erwich's new 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know course, now on Chessable. Tactically sh...
We're excited to announce the next edition of Kids vs. Stars, the event that pits the scariest up-and-coming kids against established chess stars. This time, it's GM Daniel Naroditsky's turn to be in the hot seat! Starting on March 3 at 4 ...
GM Sergey Karjakin, a former challenger for the world chess championship title, has been sanctioned by the European Union (EU) for his continued support of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine. The EU's new measures were announced on the third ...
