The 2025 FIDE World Cup is over, with a month of frenetic chess action whittling 206 players down to just one, GM Javokhir Sindarov. The 19-year-old star is both the youngest and lowest-seeded player ever to win the World Cup, earning him a hero's...
GM Denis Lazavik, GM Magnus Carlsen, and IM Renato Terry won the third week of 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 27.
The first two tournaments were fought mainly between Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, while the third event p...
Top seed GM Alireza Firouzja profited from a big blunder by GM Luke McShane to score a win with the black pieces in round two of the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament. Firouzja now shares the lead with GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who used 34(!...