Sixteen-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round five of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, becoming the youngest player ever to defeat a reigning champion in a game of classical chess. GM Parham Maghsoodloo rem...
FIDE, the International Chess Federation, in a piece published on Tuesday, announced there are 100 days before the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships are set to take place in Doha, Qatar. While they have kept last year's format for the Blitz...
GMs Anish Giri and Vaishali Rameshbabu topped the tables of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, but the 172 players in 11 rounds brought countless stories. We got the surprise Candidates qual...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday for the second straight week on September 16, scoring 10.5 points with only a draw against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda preventing him from the perfect 11/11 in what he called "definitely one of my more comfortable Ti...
Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer and co-founder, IM Danny Rensch, has released his first book, Dark Squares, a raw and deeply personal memoir about growing up in an abusive cult, how chess became his lifeline, and the journey that helped him build ...
GM Anish Giri played a perfect slow, grinding game to defeat GM Hans Niemann and win the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss with 8/11. Giri takes the $90,000 top prize and earns a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, where he'll be joined by GM…
GM Hans Niemann's win over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was the only decisive game on the top-nine boards as he caught GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer, and Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead. They're on 7/10 going...
Following his back-to-back victories in the highly publicized 2025 Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday and picked up the $400 first prize.
Nakamura scored 53/65 in the eve...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, and Vincent Keymer all won to catch GM Matthias Bluebaum in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss lead on 6.5/9 with two rounds to go. Firouzja won a wild 82-move clash against previous co-leader GM Nihal Sarin, Giri caught G...
Iranian teenage GM Sina Movahed won his second consecutive Freestyle Friday, and his third overall, in a field of 115 on September 12 after beating out GMs Magnus Carlsen, Arseniy Nesterov, and Denis Lazavik by a full point. There were two ke...