GM Divya Deshmukh defeated GM Koneru Humpy 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks to win the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She earns not only $50,000, with $35,000 going to the runner-up, but she is also awarded the grandmaster title. Nineteen years old, she is the ...
GM Tan Zhongyi won with the black pieces against GM Lei Tingjie to finish in third place at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She qualifies for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates and earns a $25,000 prize. The match for first place, between IM Divya ...
Both games were drawn in game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Finals, but neither of them was dull. IM Divya Deshmukh gained a massive advantage as early as move 10 and even sacrificed a piece, but GM Koneru Humpy got away. In the match for...
GM Koneru Humpy was on the brink of elimination in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals after losing the third tiebreak game. But she won on demand in game four and then won the two blitz games—pulling off the hat trick—to advanc...
IM Divya Deshmukh eliminated GM Tan Zhongyi from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, extending her Cinderella story into the Final with a third consecutive match victory over a grandmaster. She also earns her first grandmaster norm and a spot in the ...
Four cities in two continents played over-the-board chess against one another on International Chess Day (July 20). The event, Portals x Chess.com, was a celebration of chess that connected Dublin, Ireland; Lublin, Poland; Philadelphia, U.S.A.; an...
With no decisive results after game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, tensions rise as we enter the second and potentially last game of each match. IM Divya Deshmukh held a quick draw with Black against GM Tan Zhongyi, while GM Ko...
Nineteen-year-old Dutch IM Eline Roebers set a new record in June, becoming the highest-rated woman in the history of Chess.com. Her new rating of 2932 beat GM Kateryna Lagno's previous record of 2928. ELINE IS UNSTOPPABLE! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g...
Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
If you were hoping for upsets, blunders, and dramatic twists of fate, game one of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup did not disappoint. On the one hand, we saw several pre-tournament favorites win, including GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana D...
The first set of players have been eliminated from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, and 11 players advanced through tiebreaks into an even more challenging round two. The advancing players are WIM Priyanka K, WIM Anahita Zahedifar, IM Klaudia Kulo...
After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots in round two...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, on the way to winning the 2025 UzChess Cup, has gained 12 points to rise to world number-four and Indian number-one. At Norway Chess 2025 earlier in the month, GM Fabiano Caruana gained seven points to jump back to wo...
GM Alireza Firouzja defended his title as the bullet chess champion by defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 19.5-5.5 in the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship Grand Final. It was a dominant showing, as the French number-one won every match by a margin of 10...
Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by 10 points or more, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5. There are three players in the ...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky will meet in the Winners Final of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. Firouzja was a runaway train against GM Nihal Sarin, winning 17.5-6.5, while it took Naroditsky 32 games, with tiebreaks, to defeat GM...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Daniel Naroditsky, and Sam Sevian are the last ones left in the Winners Bracket of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship after day one. All four players won both of their matches to stay at the top, while the other ...
Round eight of the Cairns Cup 2025 has set up a dramatic final round. After putting up her fourth consecutive win, against GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva, IM Carissa Yip leads the event. She'll face her compatriot and friend, IM Alice Lee, in a bit...
After yet another shakeup at the Cairns Cup 2025, we have three leaders: GM Koneru Humpy, IM Carissa Yip, and IM Alice Lee. Yip defeated Humpy, while Lee took down second-place IM Alina Kashlinskaya. All three draws featured a winning advantage ...
After a rest day, the players returned to the Cairns Cup 2025 ready to fight in round six. Every game was decisive, and the bloodbath left GM Koneru Humpy on top. She defeated her co-leader and countrywoman GM Harika Dronavalli, while the other co...
Going into the rest day, three players continue to lead the Cairns Cup 2025: GM Koneru Humpy, GM Harika Dronavalli, and IM Alice Lee. IM Carissa Yip won the only decisive game of round five against GM Nana Dzagnidze, after a five-hour struggl...
GMs Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli won in round four to catch IM Alice Lee in the lead of the Cairns Cup 2025. They defeated GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Nana Dzagnidze, respectively. GM Mariya Muzychuk also picked up her first win of ...
IM Alice Lee continues to lead the Cairns Cup 2025 after making a draw with GM Nana Dzagnidze. The one decisive result was IM Carissa Yip beating GM Nino Batsiashvili from a position she could have even lost. We saw draws in the rest: GM-elect Bib...
