GM Sina Movahed, a 14-year-old chess prodigy out of Iran (whose name seems to befit a chess player), won Freestyle Friday on April 25. For the first time in a month, only nine points were needed for victory, as Movahed won out on tiebreaks ahead o...
Another path to the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC) has now been revealed. Chess players can compete at the DreamHack festival in Dallas from May 23 to 25 for four spots at the EWC Last Chance Qualifier and a share of the $20,000 prize fund.&nbs...
You may have heard that our community is, at this very moment, making history alongside world number one GM Magnus Carlsen. The Magnus vs. The World match has recently surpassed 100,000 players, making it the biggest chess game ever played. In c...
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...
Indian GM Humpy Koneru has won the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix after beating IM Nurgyul Salimova in 84 moves in the final round to finish on an unbeaten 7/9. GM Zhu Jiner also won, against IM Polina Shuvalova, but missed out on first place o...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are returning for their second edition in 2025! This online blitz event will bring together the strongest prodigies of the game and offer fans a glimpse of the bright future of chess....
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the 13-year-old Turkish phenom, won his first-ever Titled Tuesday on April 22, scoring 10 points in a clean win. Later, GM Magnus Carlsen won his third consecutive late Titled Tuesday, this one coming off of a perfect 9/9 s...
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 Zhu Jiner bounced back right away to outplay IM Divya Deshmukh and regain the lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the final round. Zhu would have been the sole leader if IM Alina Kashlinskaya had converted a completely winn...
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 Humpy Koneru is the new sole leader of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 5.5/7 after beating GM Zhu Jiner in a dramatic round-seven clash. Zhu is now joined half a point back by IM Divya Deshmukh, who won a fourth game of the event as sh...
Nigerian chess player Tunde Onakoya and NM Shawn Martinez have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon after playing continuously for an astonishing 64 hours in New York's iconic Times Square. The impress...
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 Zhu Jiner won a fourth game in six rounds of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu to retain the sole lead and climb above GM Tan Zhongyi to world number-five on the FIDE women's rating list. GM Humpy Koneru is s...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk rocketed to a second-straight Bullet Brawl victory and won the $400 first prize after outpacing 140 titled players during Saturday's event. Bortnyk's 65.5/74 gave him a score of 233, 34 points higher than the second-placed IM ...
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...
Luis Ignacio was crowned the winner of the 2025 Chess.com 4 Player Chess Championship and will receive the $1,800 first prize after winning three out of four games in the Grand Final ahead of Hamlet Antonyan, Aswin Devendran, and Jose Bolea. ...
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...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu beat IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to score the only win of round five of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, but we were a move or two away from seeing leader GM Zhu Jiner toppled. The Chinese star was hit by a fine queen...
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 Zhu Jiner beat IM Alina Kashlinskaya in round four to retain the sole lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 3.5/4. Just half a point back are local heroes GM Humpy Koneru and IM Divya Deshmukh, who picked up wins against IMs Polina S...
UPDATE: Voting is now closed, and the winning variant is King of the Hill! The Chess.com Community Championships are more than just a series of tournaments. It's a celebration of chess enthusiasts coming together to connect, compete, and have fu...
Drawing her game with IM Salome Melia was enough for GM Zhu Jiner to become the sole leader at the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix with 2.5/3. That was because co-leader IM Divya Deshmukh lost her first game, with the black pieces to GM Humpy Ko...
GM Bogdan Daniel Deac and GM Magnus Carlsen took home the Titled Tuesday first-place prizes on April 15 (it may have been tax day in the United States, but they're not due in either Romania or Norway yet). Both players scored 10 points, although D...
GM Ju Wenjun has beaten GM Tan Zhongyi 6.5-2.5 to win the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship and become only the fourth woman in history to win the title five times. The title holder since 2018 wrapped up the match with three games to spare afte...
