Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child.
While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child.
The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared...
NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani dominated the 2025 Chess.com Community Bughouse Championship, although they didn't have the highest FIDE ratings in the field. They won two matches decisively against the second-place team of FM Richard Zheng an...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
GM David Howell is the first grandmaster to triumph in Kids vs. Stars without losing a game after making draws against IM Marco Materia and FM Supratit Banerjee and beating FM Megan Paragua and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. The 3-1 win wasn't easy, with...
If you were hoping for upsets, blunders, and dramatic twists of fate, game one of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup did not disappoint. On the one hand, we saw several pre-tournament favorites win, including GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana D...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners for the July 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. Nakamura also finished third in the early tournament, and after he started out 8/8 in the late event, his 3416 Chess.com Blitz rating had set a new…