IM Justus Williams won Chess.com's inaugural 2025 NextGen Cup, an online round-robin tournament inviting 10 of the most talented players of the African diaspora. Finishing with 7.5 points after nine rounds, he won an exhilarating armageddon playof...
Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...
Two of the chess world's hottest young stars, GMs Volodar Murzin and Arjun Erigaisi, have become two of the first players to sign with major Esports organizations ahead of the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC).
Chess will make its historic debut at t...