Upsets continue to stream in at a staggering rate in round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Several 2700+ grandmasters were eliminated after the second classical game:
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju eliminated by Frederik Svane
GM Ani...
GM Magnus Carlsen may have been the favorite before the games started, but GM Oleksandr Bortnyk convincingly won his fifth Freestyle Friday tournament 9.5/11, a full point ahead of the former world champion and GM Dmitry Andreikin. With 83 partici...
IM Levy Rozman stunned more than 200,000 of his opponents and "did the meme" in GothamChess vs. the World on November 7 by sacrificing his rook on the game's 21st move. After the world attacked Gotham's rook with a pawn, the internet chess st...