GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Rauf Mamedov, and Pranesh M scored 7.5/9 to finish in the top-four and qualify for the Knockout Stage of the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Play-In. They'll be joined by the likes of GMs Ding Lir...
Don't adjust your calendars: GMs Magnus Carlsen and Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday on February 11, and they've done it again on March 11. Neither player was quite as dominant as they were a month ago, both scoring 9.5 points this week. Carl...
How can chess evolve to reach an even wider audience? What lessons can it take from other sports? These were just some of the questions tackled at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last weekend. The annual conference, which took pl...
In week seven of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL), two strong teams fought for a shot at the league playoffs. The University of the Texas Rio Grande Valley (TRGV) narrowly held off Lviv State University of Physical Culture by a score ...
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...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen scored 3/3 for Offerspill on the final weekend of the Norwegian Team Chess Championship. His wins over GM Simen Agdestein and IMs Kristian Stuvik Holm and Alparslan Isik saw him gain 4.1 rating points to climb to 28...
17-year-old WFM Eman Sawan from Palestine has emerged as one of the brightest stars in a region with limited support and traditions for chess. Her story has ignited a wave of support from the chess community with over 70 donors backing her dream t...
After posting a 29-game streak in Saturday's event, GM Andrew Tang joined GM Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as one of three players to win three Bullet Brawls in 2025. Tang scored 70 wins, one draw, and eight losses and scored 258 points&md...
18-year-old Indian GM Pranav Venkatesh dominated the FIDE World Junior Championship 2025 to be crowned champion ahead of 11 other grandmasters on Friday. 16-year-old WIM Anna Shukhman took the Girls title a full point clear of the field. The Wor...
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...
Freestyle Friday is still a relatively new event, with its seventh-ever rendition being held on March 7. In it, GM Arjun Erigaisi set two firsts: he became the first player to win any two Freestyle Fridays and the first player to win two in a row....
GM Fabiano Caruana won the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis convincingly after a strong final day when he beat GM Ray Robson twice. Caruana scored 6.5/9 and pocketed $51,625 for his three-day workweek. GM Wesley So, who won his blitz g...
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...
The second Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event is scheduled to take place in Paris between April 7 and 14. As part of our announced partnership with Freestyle Chess, we offer a qualification path for each event to any of our members. The Qualifi...
A single win in their rapid game on Wednesday was enough for GM Fabiano Caruana to take the lead from GM Wesley So at the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis. In this event, where money prizes are connected to single-game results, Caruana h...
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...
Can chess continue its meteoric rise? How will the game evolve in the esports landscape? And what role does sports analytics play in shaping competitive chess strategies? These key questions will be discussed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf...
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11. After several p...
GM Wesley So had the best start on day one of the 2025 Champions Showdown: The Kings, a three-day exhibition event in St. Louis, Missouri, held just ahead of the American Cup. Six American grandmasters play rapid, blitz, and semi-classical chess f...
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...
The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 continues with the second stop in Paris on April 7-14. It's a remarkably star-studded field that will feature twelve of the world's best players, with 11 now confirmed. The final spot will be determined thr...
Most people don't associate the sport of disc golf with chess, but many of us are fans of both sports. The Discraft Supreme Flight Open (Presented by Florida's Adventure Coast) ran Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 2 at the Olympus Disc Go...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has released the official trailer for its upcoming series Chess Masters: The Endgame. The highly anticipated series, in which 12 rising stars of the UK’s booming chess community battle it out and GM...
IM Alice Lee has now beaten both GMs Anish Giri and Daniel Naroditsky in simultaneous displays, but in the fourth edition of Kids vs. Stars 2024 it was again the grandmaster who won, by a 2.5-1.5 scoreline. Naroditsky defeated WFM Bodhana Sivanand...
