GothamChess vs. The World has blown past previously-established records and continues to set new ones, with now more than 200,000 players having joined in. That total is nearly 40% more than the previous record, which was set during Magnus vs. the...
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...
GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth,…
Emirati GM Salem Saleh won with a brilliant and sacrificial combination, in a heated Najdorf battle against Japanese IM Thanh Tu Tran, to earn our Game of the day distinction. The favorites mostly prevailed in round one, game one of the 2025 FIDE ...