Twenty-one players, on a total of 64 boards in round two of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, scored wins in game one and are a draw away from advancing to round three. On the top boards, we saw GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Wei Yi,…
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PogChamps Champion Eberechi Eze's skills on the soccer pitch have made him a star for English Premier League side Arsenal, but last month the England international returned to his former school in London to launch a new chess initiative, in partne...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
For the last couple of years the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) has been a battle between two giants, the defending champions, Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou). However, in week five, the University of ...
We're excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Crazyhouse Chess Championship starts on November 6 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Featuring a variant where initiative is everything, get ready for...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with four points out of a possible six on day one. After losing game one against GM Magnus Carlsen, he had the best day, scoring three wins and two draws in his remain...
This month only, Chess.com and Jagex have teamed up to bring you five limited-edition bots, a lineup of the most famous (and infamous) characters in all of Gielinor! As Old School RuneScape fans anxiously await the Sailing update coming on Novembe...
Twelve-year-old IM Faustino Oro, the youngest participant in the 2025 FIDE World Cup, is among the 20 players who advance to round two after tiebreaks after defeating GM Ante Brkic 5-3. The matchups only get harder from here, as the top 50 se...
GM Victor Mikhalevski of Israel won the 50+ section at the FIDE World Senior Championships in Gallipoli, Italy, on Saturday. IM Alexander Reprintsev of Ukraine edged out five other players on tiebreaks to win the 65+ group. In the Women's sections...