GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 70th Iowa Open with a perfect 5/5 score and is 11 games away from reaching the 40 required (by December 31) to be eligible for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. He would qualify by having the highest rating, as GM…
16-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 remains ...
Turkish prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus won what GM David Howell called his "Evergreen Game" in round four of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss to join a 13-way tie for second place behind GM Parham Maghsoodloo. It was mainly draws at the top, but 18-...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk stole the show in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after outscoring 186 of Chess.com's quickest titled players to capture the $400 first prize for the 13th time.
Bortnyk's score of 164 positioned him 12 points ahead of the second-pla...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo called GM Alireza Firouzja's bluff to take the sole lead in the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss, after co-leader GM Anton Demchenko eventually succumbed to GM Arjun Erigaisi's pressure. Another late winner was GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshb...
Duck Chess Champion IM Nhat Minh To defended his title in the 2025 Duck Chess Championship Final, and convincingly so. He won all four of his matches 3-0, literally winning all 12 games, to earn $750. He defeated runner-up IM Eric Rosen (earn...
GM Sina Movahed has become the sixth two-time winner of Freestyle Friday, winning his last six games on September 5 to take first place on tiebreaks ahead of GM Zhamsaran Tsydypov, and 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the 116-player field. The...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the only top-20 player on a perfect 2/2 after round two of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss after he ground out another win, this time with Black against GM Maxim Rodshtein. He's joined in the lead by 21st seed, GM Parham…
GM Vadim Zvjaginsev is quietly building an impressive unbeaten streak. The 49-year-old grandmaster is up to 92 games without a single loss in classical chess, putting him in sight of the 100-game mark. Yet, instead of climbing on the rating list, ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju was among only 17 of 116 players to win in the first round of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss in Samarkand, with other stars getting off to a quick start including GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Anish Gi...