The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu as the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2025, securing him a spot for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura is also destined to clinch the final ratin...
An undefeated GM Sam Sevian won Titled Tuesday on December 9—his first since 2021—scoring 9.5 points to claim an outright victory ahead of five players on nine points. In that group, GM Denis Lazavik emerged from the tiebreak applicati...
GM Magnus Carlsen lost the first game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals, but then won on demand with Black to force tiebreaks. There, he won both blitz games and already clinched the 2025 Freestyle Chess Gran...
Fourteen-year-old Turkish chess prodigy GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has beaten 35-year-old world number 15 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-2.5 in Clash of Generations II. Victory in the six-game classical match in the Monte Carlo Chess Club saw Erdogmus ...
On his 20th birthday, GM Javokhir Sindarov finished at the top of the Group Stage with 5.5/7 in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa. In round one, he won the Game of the Day against GM Magnus Carlsen. In second and third…
GM Hikaru Nakamura is now one title away from securing a landmark 50 Bullet Brawl wins after he won December's first arena while joking about his relative age to the rest of the field. Nakamura scored 53.5/63 for a total score of 180 and barely…
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov had already won the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament with a day to spare, and all draws in the final round meant he finished two points clear on 7.5/9. He made a solid draw against GM Pavel Eljanov, while second-...
No one could've predicted that Samay Raina, one of the lowest-rated players in the field, would win SuperPogChamps. But the comedian had the last laugh when he defeated Andrea Botez and Sardoche in the Championship Bracket to take the crown.
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IM Renato Terry won another 3 0 Thursday tournament on December 4, marking the third consecutive week that he's won one of the three events. No one else has won more than once since the event debuted on November 6. GM Vladislav Artemiev and IM…
GM Sina Movahed won Freestyle Friday on December 5 with a round to spare, becoming just the fourth player to win the event at least four times. Even more impressively, Movahed won 10 straight games to end the tournament, persevering despite a loss...