While several players were battling it out in a qualifier for the rights to play in Vegas at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas, Freestyle Friday continued on with 229 participants. In what turned out to be an intense fight, two players scor...
IM Carissa Yip won the Cairns Cup 2025 on Thursday in St. Louis after drawing a dramatic final game with IM Alice Lee, who needed a win for a GM norm and tournament victory. A draw was enough for Yip to score her second GM norm instead, with a 261...
GMs Yu Yangyi, Hans Niemann, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Denis Lazavik are two steps closer to booking a spot at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas tournament, having progressed to Friday's Play-In Semifinals. Niemann, who defeated former World...
GM Magnus Carlsen tops the first-ever Freestyle Chess rating list, hitting the 2900 barrier after dominating the chess variant in his latest events. Already the world number-one in FIDE's official classical, rapid, and blitz ratings, the 3...
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...
Grandmasters Rasmus Svane, Denis Lazavik, Pranesh M, and Martyn Kravtsiv advanced from the Swiss stage to the knockouts in the hopes of reaching the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas tournament. In tomorrow's knockout stage, they will be joined...
A week after GMs Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on June 10, Titled Tuesday on June 17 was won by... Carlsen and Niemann. This week, Carlsen scored 10.5 points in the early event, winning by a full point ahead of GMs A...
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...
Players can now register for their last shot at making it to this year's Esports World Cup (EWC). Featuring a whopping $1,500,000 prize fund, the inaugural chess event in the Esports World Cup arena is attracting some of the world's strongest play...
Five-time U.S. champion GM Gata Kamsky has officially switched federations to France, marking the end of a 36-year chapter representing the United States. The transfer was confirmed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) on Monday, followi...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave were among the stars as WR Chess won the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship for a second year in a row. The greatest controversy came in the Quarterfinals, when GM Vincent Keymer's ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 6/7 as top-seed WR Chess won all 12 of their matches on day one of the 2025 World Blitz Team Championship, but the most memorable game was the world number-two's one loss, to 13-year-old IM Khagan Ahmad from Azerbaijan. T...
GM Andrew Tang put his shoulder back to the wheel fewer than 24 hours after winning the 2025 Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship and won his seventh Bullet Brawl of the year after a 34-game streak. Tang scored 62.5/75 and amassed 220 poin...
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...
Almost a decade on from his viral victories against Leela Chess in ultrabullet, GM Andrew Tang has proven he is the quickest player on Chess.com for the second year in a row following a successful title defense in the 2025 Chess.com Hyperbullet Ch...
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 ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi bounced back to score 3.5/4 and lead Team MGD1 to gold medals in the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship after a perfect four match wins on the final day. GM Levon Aronian's Hexamind took silver, while GM Viswanathan A...
A week after GM Jeffery Xiong scored the first 11/11 in Freestyle Friday history, this week's 960 event on Chess.com ended in a three-way tie on nine points. GM Denis Lazavik pulled ahead in the ninth round, but then allowed IMs Eytan Rozen and Ma...
Insurance company Symetra Financial was crowned as the champions of the 2025 North American Corporate Chess League (NACCL) on Thursday after their master-laden team defeated trading firm Jane Street 2.5-1.5 in the Final. Symetra's IM Irakl...
Fifty-five-year-old GM Viswanathan Anand rolled back the years to win a brilliant game against GM Arjun Erigaisi on day two of the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships. Arjun's 0.5/4 didn't stop his Team MGD1 remaining unbeaten until th...
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...
The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is headed for Las Vegas, and it's bringing 16 of the world's top grandmasters to the heart of the Strip. The organizers have announced more than half of the field that will compete in the fourth leg of th...
Sixteen-year-old GM Ediz Gurel took down GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave while 11-year-old IM Faustino Oro beat GM David Navara as the 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships began in London. GM Arjun Erigaisi's Team MGD1 tops the standings with...
IM Alice Lee, the youngest and lowest-rated player in the Cairns Cup 2025, won again in round two and leads with a perfect score. With the black pieces, she defeated GM Mariya Muzychuk. In the other decisive game, GM Nana Dzagnidze recovered from ...
