GM Andrew Tang has reclaimed equal third position on Bullet Brawl's all-time leaderboard after prevailing over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in a sprint to the finish in Saturday's arena.
Tang combined pace and precision to amass a score of 162 points, e...
GM Alexander Grischuk won his second Freestyle Friday of the year on September 26, recovering from a 1.5/3 start by winning his last eight games to clear the 135-player field by a full point. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Jan-Krzysztof Duda were Grischu...
Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro continues to rewrite the history books. The 11-year-old won the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid on Thursday, clinching first place with a round to spare. Along the way, he secured his fir...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took his first Titled Tuesday in the new system on September 23, entering the top four of the Champions Chess Tour standings. Other than two quick draws in the seventh and eighth rounds, he scored every possible point on his way...
Argentina’s IM Faustino Oro has scored his first grandmaster norm after a stunning 6/7 start to the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid, Spain. Only World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju has ever scored a GM norm at a younger age and...
Hawks and elephants are storming the chessboard once again in the next event of the Chess.com Community Championship. The Seirawan Chess Championship takes place on October 2 and 3, featuring a $2,000 prize pool.
Seirawan Chess is the brainchild...
Chess will return as a stadium sport at the Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas, on October 4. The organizers said they hope to capture both die-hard chess fans and the broader chess audience with some fascinating new experiments.
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Announced on Monday, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has granted six wildcard invitations for the upcoming 2025 FIDE World Cup, a major tournament in November that will award three seats in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. The winner of that ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has moved one step closer to a historic 50th Bullet Brawl title after outscoring GMs Andrew Tang, Daniel Naroditsky, and 196 hungry titled players on Saturday.
Nakamura scored 174 points in the two-hour arena and won the...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on September 19, his seventh, reaching his final score of nine points with a win in the final round against GM Sina Movahed. Movahed, who was attempting to win the event for the third straight week, retained...