Out of 78 matches in round one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, 20 will go to rapid and blitz tiebreaks on Monday. The upset of the day was IM Shixu Wang's (2402) match win against GM Leon Mendonca (2620). There were just two other cases…
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to a 14th career victory ahead of the 48-time winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura.
Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour ar...