The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to win the event and, through it,…
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi (Group A), Nihal Sarin (Group B), Hikaru Nakamura (Group C), and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Group D) won their respective Losers Brackets to complete the field of eight players in the 2025 Esports World Cup Quarterfinals. They j...
WFM Bodhana Sivanandan continued her rise in the chess world on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to achieve a Woman Grandmaster (WGM) norm, at just 10 years old. The historic feat came at the Dole Trophy 2025, held from July 19-27 in Ai...
The last Titled Tuesdays of July saw two players, GMs Maksim Chigaev and Salem Saleh, win their first of 2025. For Chigaev, it had been nearly a decade since his previous victory on June 7, 2016, while Saleh previously won on June 28, 2022. Chigae...
GMs Levon Aronian (Group A), Arjun Erigaisi (Group B), Alireza Firouzja (Group C), and Magnus Carlsen (Group D) all won two matches to reach the Grand Finals of their respective groups in the 2025 Esports World Cup.
On their last lives in the Lo...
IM Divya Deshmukh defeated GM Koneru Humpy 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks to win the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She earns not only $50,000, with $35,000 going to the runner-up, but she is also awarded the grandmaster title. Nineteen years old, she is the ...
GM Tan Zhongyi won with the black pieces against GM Lei Tingjie to finish in third place at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She qualifies for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates and earns a $25,000 prize. The match for first place, between IM Divya…
GMs Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Nihal Sarin, and Javokhir Sindarov have taken the final four spots in the $1.5 million main chess event of the 2025 Esports World Cup. Giri won in the most dramatic fashion, flagging GM Hans Niemann in a losing posit...
16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel impressively scored 161 points in Saturday's Bullet Brawl and 6/8 against 29-time winner GM Daniel Naroditsky to clinch his fourth career title and the $400 first prize.
Naroditsky and GM Andrew Tang challenged Gurel bu...
Both games were drawn in game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Finals, but neither of them was dull. IM Divya Deshmukh gained a massive advantage as early as move 10 and even sacrificed a piece, but GM Koneru Humpy got away. In…