Are you ready to enter a world of magic and chess spells? We're excited to announce the Anichess x Chess.com Tournament, an event organized by our official partner, Anichess. Starting on February 13, anyone can enter the event for free and climb u...
The winner of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will be crowned the "Freestyle Chess Champion," 12 members of the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) decided in a meeting on Sunday evening. They also plan to form an independent players' ass...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen spotted a move-three mistake by GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov and took the lead in their 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam quarterfinal in just 23 moves. There were also wins for GM Vincent Keymer, over GM Alir...
Two weeks after winning his first Bullet Brawl title in 2025, GM Andrew Tang triumphed in Saturday's event with a score of 227, scooping up the $400 first prize in the process. 16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel finished in second place on 218 points ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Javokhir Sindarov in the final round to win the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Round-Robin and get first pick of an opponent for Sunday's Quarterfinals. Big guns GMs Magnus Carlsen (who beat World Champion ...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam on 4.5/5 on a day when both took down GM Magnus Carlsen. The defending champion also lost to GM Vladimir Fedoseev, but scored two wins to join the likes...
GM Magnus Carlsen rules out any cooperation with FIDE and its current administration but insists he is not trying to take down classical chess with his new Freestyle Chess project.
The $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus will start w...
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...