GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed…
The 16-year-old Turkish prodigy and GM Ediz Gurel has moved to fifth on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after picking up his third win of 2025. Gurel scored 177 points, comprising 49 wins, six draws, and seven losses, giving him a winning ma...
Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov dominated to win 2025 Clutch Chess: The Legends with two games to spare, 30 years to the day after clinching victory over GM Viswanathan Anand in the 1995 World Chess Championship match. Anand hadn't won a ...
GM Hans Niemann ended GM Abhimanyu Mishra's 71-game unbeaten streak to join GMs Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship lead after round five. So's sole lead ended with a 15-minute draw against GM Levon Aronian and he was...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Liem Le 13.5-11.5 in the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Round of 16 on October 17. Though Nakamura dominated the first two portions of the match, it was in the bullet segment, surprisingly, that Le nearly made a heroi...
We're excited to announce our newest partner, the highly anticipated first-ever Broadway revival of the musical CHESS! To celebrate the occasion, we're launching exclusive new bots based on the characters of the show.
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GM Wesley So beat GM Vincent Keymer in the Speed Chess Championship 2025, winning the closest match yet in the Round of 16. He won only in overtime, after Keymer won the last bullet game on demand. So, who played during his rest day at…
GM Hans Niemann won a dramatic game against GM Sam Shankland in round four of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship to join GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in second place on 2.5/4, half a point behind leader GM Wesley So. Niemann's was the ...
GM Denis Lazavik defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi 12-9 in the Speed Chess Championship 2025. The 3+1 segment separated the players, and GM Aman Hambleton aptly summarized it: "I don't even recall Arjun playing a terrible match, Denis was just ...
The organizers behind Norway Chess have announced an ambitious new competition officially endorsed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Total Chess World Championship Tour will crown an entirely new FIDE World Combined Champion across...