There's no stopping for GM Alireza Firouzja, who won his fifth game in a row on Thursday at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025, taking down his compatriot GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. With draws on all other boards, this game helped Triveni ...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his fourth consecutive game in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 as he took down GM Viswanathan Anand to help Triveni Continental Kings to an 11-6 bounce-back win over the Ganges Grandmasters. That came despite GM ...
Another year has gone by, and chess keeps getting bigger and bigger! Coming from a sequence of record-breaking years for chess, it was hard to believe that 2025 could be even better. But after a year of dramatic events, newsworthy viral moments, a...
Twelve-year-old Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro is one step closer to making history by becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster. On Tuesday, he scored another fantastic performance and achieved his second norm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
GM Viswanathan Anand's win over GM Gukesh Dommaraju helped the Ganges Grandmasters join a four-way tie for the lead in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. Both leading teams lost, despite big wins on top board for GM Alireza Firouzja, over...
By his own admission, it wasn't pretty, but GM Magnus Carlsen got the job done in Titled Tuesday on December 16, scoring 9.5 points to win outright despite a loss in the second round and a worse final position in the 11th round as he…
GM Alireza Firouzja took down World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju as Triveni Continental Kings won 15-3 to stay perfect on day two of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. Other team leaders had mixed days. GM Hikaru Nakamura beat GM Maxime Vach...
With 2026 at our doorstep, we know that many of our members are making chess-related New Year's resolutions. Some might want to break their rating record, some might just be looking to play more. Regardless of your goals, we're here to help!
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World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan welcomed the birth of a healthy baby boy last week, the couple has confirmed.
Nakamura, who first revealed that they were expecting during a Kick livestream in July, shared...
GM Alireza Firouzja played a brilliant sacrifice to defeat GM Fabiano Caruana while GM Wei Yi took down GM Anish Giri as two-time Tech Mahindra Global Chess League champions Triveni Continental Kings began season three with a win. Of the world's t...