The 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam started with a bang on Monday. The first day featured six rounds of rapid chess and only six of the 36 games ended in draws! World number-one Magnus Carlsen and late addition GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov emerg...
GM Ju Wenjun survived heavy pressure on the board and on the clock to make a five-hour, 80-move draw against GM Tan Zhongyi that leaves the scores level at 2-2 after game four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Both players competed to s...
Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster, two-time Nordic Champion, six-time Icelandic champion, the oldest living candidate for the world chess championship, and former FIDE President, passed away on Friday April 4 aged 90 after enduri...
GM Ju Wenjun ground out a win in a pawn-up endgame to defeat GM Tan Zhongyi and level the scores at 1.5-1.5 after three games of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. Tan played fast in a Sicilian to pressure her opponent, but in the run-...
Less than 48 hours before the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons." The U.S. grandmaster is the second player to be replaced, after GM Alireza Fi...
16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel added a third Bullet Brawl title to his trophy cabinet on Saturday after a tense battle with his compatriot, 13-year-old GM Yagiz Erdogmus, and the nine-time Bullet Brawl winner, GM Andrew Tang. Two hours o...
It took a few months for GM Hikaru Nakamura to win his first Freestyle Friday, but just a week later, he won his second. Whereas last week Nakamura needed tiebreaks after a final-round setback, this week he won outright with 10 points after achiev...
The much-anticipated Magnus vs. The World match officially launched on Chess.com on Friday with GM Magnus Carlsen's first move. With 100,000 participants registered on Thursday, the event shattered the record for the largest online chess match eve...
GM Tan Zhongyi has taken a 1.5-0.5 lead in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship after World Champion GM Ju Wenjun collapsed in a rook endgame that seemed headed for an inevitable draw. She fought on after the time control had passed, but Tan m...
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...
We’re celebrating Earth Day all month long with bots that honor endangered species, past and present. Ready to play chess on the wild side? Play Wild New Bots Diana The Dodo Playing strength: 400 Contrary to popular belief, the dodo...
As announced last December, IM Levy Rozman, aka GothamChess, will host his first-ever “European Tour” this May. The five-country, six-event program over 10 days is bound to enrapt audiences from the U.K. to Poland and everywhere in bet...
Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi played the Sicilian Defense and made a comfortable 39-move draw against World Champion Ju Wenjun as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship began in Shanghai. "From the first game I think Tan is going to be a very t...
GM Magnus Carlsen is about to play the biggest chess game of his life. Not the most important, but the most opponents he's ever faced at once: it's Magnus Carlsen Vs. The World. The event begins on Friday, April 4, when Magnus makes his first move...
GM Liem Le and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners of Titled Tuesday on April 1, Nakamura after finishing second in the early event. Tiebreaks were not necessary to determine either winner or even Nakamura's second-place finish. It was Le's second...
Defending Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun is striving to become only the fourth player in history to win the title five times as she takes on challenger and former champion GM Tan Zhongyi in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shang...
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GM Arjun Erigaisi is back to world number-four on the April 2025 FIDE rating list after two wins in the German League saw him leapfrog GM Fabiano Caruana, who lost to GM Hikaru Nakamura in The American Cup. The truly spectacular Indian achievement...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams worked their way back to the Collegiate Chess...
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...
GM Andrew Tang was denied a record-equaling four-peat in Saturday's Bullet Brawl by a dominant performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura that saw him capture his 38th title and the $400 first prize. Following a successful The American Cup campaign, N...
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 Hikaru Nakamura took home his first Freestyle Friday on March 28, scoring nine points and winning on tiebreaks against four other players on the same score: GMs Alexey Sarana, Jose Martinez, Jeffery Xiong, and Christopher Yoo. It was the third ...
