Thirty-two players, including top GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, and Alireza Firouzja, have qualified for the inaugural 2025 Comet Open main event. Next weekend, over two days of playoffs, the players will compete for their s...
A Dutch teenager has been given a three-year ban, with one year suspended, by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) after he was caught with a mobile phone hidden in his sock during a tournament in the Netherlands last year.
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GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed…