WFM Megan Paragua is a young master to watch out for. Just 12 years old, she put up a performance rating of 2506 (grandmaster strength) by round seven at the 2025 Grenke Chess Open A after a draw with GM Mikheil Kekelidze. Though she lost the last...
Just a day ago, GM Magnus Carlsen achieved the seemingly impossible (again). This time, he won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with a perfect 9/9 score. While his stellar performance stole headlines during the five-day event, we review seven ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with an out-of-this-world, perfect 9/9 score. He had already won the tournament with a round to spare in round eight, but round nine was about cementing his legacy of dominance. With a...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues his streak of perfection in the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, now with seven rounds under his belt. He won a smooth game against GM Awonder Liang before his rollercoaster game against GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who...
GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the sole lead in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open as the only player with a perfect score after five rounds. He enjoyed two smooth victories on Saturday against GM Etienne Bacrot and 53-year-old GM Victor Mikhalevski, wh...
14 players are on a perfect score after three rounds in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. On a day of upsets, several pre-tournament favorites lost: GM Aravindh Chithambaram (against GM Maciej Klekowski), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (against Slovak I...
There were no upsets on the top boards after round one of the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. The closest we came to an upset (even a draw) was in the games GM Fabiano Caruana vs. CM Carlos Hauser and FM Matthias Bach vs. GM Levon Aronian. But, ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi married Nidhi Kataria on April 2 at the luxurious Oxford Golf Resort in Pune, India. The 30-year-old grandmaster is currently number 25 in the world on the live rating list, and Nidhi, 28, is a homeopathic doctor. The couple brok...
On the road to the grandmaster title, IM-elect Tani Adewumi has only one stop left. In round five of the tournament NYC Chess Norms Spring 2025, the 14-year-old crossed 2400 by live rating and thus completed the final requirement for the internati...
Liam Hereford won the 2025 Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship after winning both the Winners Final and Grand Final Reset. Eduardo Lorenzon lost to Hereford early in the Winners Semifinals but climbed through three matches in the Losers Bracket to...
GM Kateryna Lagno has withdrawn from the 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix India in Pune, India, which is part of the women’s world championship cycle. FIDE published that Lagno, as well as IM Sara Khadem, withdrew from the tournament that'...
GM Matthias Bluebaum is the first player to win the European Chess Championship two times. He previously won gold in 2022 and is also the only German to top the event in its 25-year history. He finished in a three-way tie on 8.5/11 with GMs Freder...
Following his win at the 2025 American Cup, GM Hikaru Nakamura picked up another $5,000 the next day with his first-place finish in the 2025 American Cup Blitz. After two weeks of battling with the U.S.'s best players, he leaves St. Louis with a t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in blitz tiebreaks to win the Champions Final of The American Cup 2025, which comes with a $15,000 bonus. In the Women's American Cup Champions Final, IM Alice Lee survived a dead-lost endgame ag...
After an 18-move draw, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are tied ½-½ in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. In Open Elimination, however, we saw GMs Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez eliminated, respectively, by G...
American numbers one and two, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, will clash in the Open Champions Final of The American Cup 2025. Nakamura advanced after scoring a classical win with Black against GM Leinier Dominguez, while it took Caruana ...
After two draws in the Open Champions Semifinals of the The American Cup 2025, no one was able to break ahead. There was more action in the Open Elimination Round 1, where GM Sam Sevian eliminated GM Ray Robson in blitz tiebreaks 3-1 and GM Wesley...
After four more draws in the classical portion, all of the matches in The American Cup 2025 Open went to blitz playoffs. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian have advanced to the Champions Semifinals. Th...
All four games in The American Cup 2025 Open ended in draws, but the top two seeds, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, missed critical chances in their games against, respectively, GMs Abhimanyu Mishra and Ray Robson. In stark contras...
GM Daniil Dubov won an 18-game blitz match against GM Hans Niemann with a final score of 9.5-8.5. As the prize, Niemann had agreed to answer one question with a polygraph test. The match, which took place March 7-8 in Moscow, Russia was a follow-u...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters with a draw in the last round against GM Ediz Gurel. Having previously won the 2024 Chennai Grand Masters, the 25-year-old "late bloomer" has won the only two super-tournaments he...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram leads by a half-point going into the last round of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. He had a minor chance to extend his lead after GM David Navara made an early mistake, but the players reached a quick draw. GM Prag...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won a golden game with Black against GM Anish Giri to take the sole lead in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round seven. GM Ediz Gurel won his first game in the event against GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen with a sudd...
After draws on all boards in round six, GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram stay in the lead by a point in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Ediz Gurel came closest to achieving a decisive game when with Black he outpl...
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,...
