GM Alexander Fishbein clinched the U.S. Senior Championship title by winning a playoff on Friday with GM Vladimir Akopian and GM Alexander Shabalov after all three had finished in a tie for first. Fishbein earned $23,167. GM Andy Woodward was the ...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Hans Niemann topped Groups C and D of the 2025 Esports World Cup Last Chance Qualifier as the 16-player field was completed for Saturday's Playoffs. They were joined by GMs Yu Yangyi, Javokhir Sindarov, Anish Giri...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi doesn't really need to add too many more accomplishments to his resume, but he did that on July 25 by winning his first Freestyle Friday ahead of GMs Jeffery Xiong and Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tiebreaks. The field of 175 pl...
GM Levon Aronian continued his form from Las Vegas as he topped Group A of the Last Chance Qualifier for the 2025 Esports World Cup, while GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vidit Gujrathi, and Daniil Dubov were all eliminated. GMs Alexey Sarana, Marc'Andria M...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev emerged as the winner of the grueling Biel Masters Triathlon, an event that required him to play a total of 30 games in Chess960, blitz, rapid, and classical formats over 11 days. The Russian grandmaster, who lives in Germany ...
GM Koneru Humpy was on the brink of elimination in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals after losing the third tiebreak game. But she won on demand in game four and then won the two blitz games—pulling off the hat trick—to advanc...
21-year-old Bibisara Assaubayeva has officially become the 43rd woman to achieve the grandmaster title, joining a prestigious list of players to achieve the feat. IM Roman Shogdzhiev has also been confirmed as the world's youngest international ma...
IM Divya Deshmukh eliminated GM Tan Zhongyi from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, extending her Cinderella story into the Final with a third consecutive match victory over a grandmaster. She also earns her first grandmaster norm and a spot in the ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved the participation of a Russian team in the upcoming 2025 Women's World Team Championship. The controversial decision has led to several reactions, most notably from the European Chess Union (E...
Both Titled Tuesday events of July 22 were close, but in the end, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Bogdan-Daniel Deac won out. They scored 9.5 points each, beating out GMs Jeffery Xiong and Matthias Bluebaum, respectively, on tiebreaks. Both Nakamura ...