GM Hikaru Nakamura cruised to victory in Saturday's Bullet Brawl, posting a score of 184 to finish 40 points ahead of IM Renato Terry and a further two ahead of GM Eric Hansen. The win, which earned Nakamura $400, brought up 42 career titles, eigh...
GM Alireza Firouzja defended his title as the bullet chess champion by defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 19.5-5.5 in the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship Grand Final. It was a dominant showing, as the French number-one won every match by a margin of 10...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is Indian number-one and world number-four after a stunning comeback saw him beat GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the final rounds before winning the 2025 UzChess Cup Masters in tiebreaks over GM Javokh...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on June 27 with a perfect 11/11 score, matching the feat accomplished three weeks ago by GM Jeffery Xiong. In the 23rd Freestyle Friday held so far, Nakamura earned his fourth victory, breaking a tie with GM...
Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by double digits, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5.
There are three players in the Lo...
India's latest chess sensation, CM Aarit Kapil, is only nine years old. This week, he came within inches of defeating none other than world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday. The game ended in a dramatic draw, but the perf...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky will meet in the Winners Final of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. Firouzja was a runaway train against GM Nihal Sarin, winning 17.5-6.5, while it took Naroditsky 32 games, with tiebreaks, to defeat GM...
The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
The announcement, first reported by the Times of India on Th...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Daniel Naroditsky, and Sam Sevian are the last ones left in the Winners Bracket of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship after day one. All four players won both of their matches to stay at the top, while the other ...
Get ready for wild sacs and spectacular king hunts! The Chess.com Bughouse Chess Championship, the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships, begins on July 7 at 11 a.m. ET/17:00 CEST. With five days of competition and a $5,000 pri...