GM Aravindh Chithambaram took the sole lead of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after winning his game in round three against GM Wei Yi. There were two more decisive results: GM Vincent Keymer bounced back from yesterday's loss by beating GM...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday outright over a field of 307 players on February 28, doing so with a win over erstwhile leader GM Shant Sargsyan in the final round. GM Hikaru Nakamura ended up taking second place from Sargsyan on tiebreaks,...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
Eight players have qualified for the 3-Check Chess Championship 2025 Knockout, the second event of this year's Community Chess Championships (following January's Puzzle Championship). The eight hopefuls for the Knockout ended up being FM Luuk Base...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina drew against IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to win the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix, her second Grand Prix victory in a row. She finished top on tiebreaks ahead of Munguntuul and GM Koneru Humpy, who took down IM Bibisara...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen made an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience where he openly addressed the infamous controversy with GM Hans Niemann for the first time.
The controversial Joe Rogan, a comedian, UFC commentator, and former TV...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Vincent Keymer and has taken his place in the lead of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round two. That was the only decisive game of the round. GM Sam Shankland remains in the lead after drawing wit...
The 10th world champion, and one of the greatest players to ever play the game, GM Boris Spassky passed away on Thursday in Moscow at the age of 88, the Russian Chess Federation has confirmed.
The sad news about the death of the legend was…
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina and IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul won in the penultimate round of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix to catch leader GM Kateryna Lagno, who made a quick draw against GM Koneru Humpy. GM Tan Zhongyi beat IM Bibisara Assauba...
GMs Sam Shankland and Vincent Keymer won in the opening round of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. Shankland's victory was the second game to end, when one mistake led to a breezy endgame win against GM Ediz Gurel, while Keymer grinded a lon...