GM Aravindh Chithambaram won a golden game with Black against GM Anish Giri to take the sole lead in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round seven. GM Ediz Gurel won his first game in the event against GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen with…
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...
Can chess continue its meteoric rise? How will the game evolve in the esports landscape? And what role does sports analytics play in shaping competitive chess strategies? These key questions will be discussed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf...
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11.…
GM Wesley So had the best start on day one of the 2025 Champions Showdown: The Kings, a three-day exhibition event in St. Louis, Missouri, held just ahead of the American Cup. Six American grandmasters play rapid, blitz, and semi-classical chess f...