It's now less than a month until the $2 million 2025 FIDE World Cup begins on November 1, with a 206-player field topped by the Indian trio of World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. The event will tak...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) will discuss the possible reinstatement of Russian national teams at its General Assembly meeting in December, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has confirmed.
A proposal will be on the agenda for the Gen...
Team USA beat Team India 5-0 on Saturday evening at the highly innovative Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas. In the last game of the day, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Gukesh Dommaraju, literally grabbed his opponent's king, and t...
GM Daniel Naroditsky was the deserving winner of October's first Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after he toppled 30 players with Chess.com bullet ratings over 3000 en route to a dominant victory.
Naroditsky scored 55/73 overall and accumu...
In September, IM Nhat Minh To won the 2025 Duck Chess Championship. In October, he conquered another variant, winning the 2025 Seirawan Chess Championship. Minh To did it the hard way, losing his very first match, and then having to win the Grand ...
The recent decision by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change the long-debated 400-point rule for top grandmasters has sparked an outcry, with accusations of "stealing" rating points and warnings that the system is losing credibi...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals to earn $150,000, with the runner-up GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave taking the second $100,000 prize. Vachier-Lagrave won the first game, but Caruana went on a rampage to win three games in a row ...
GM Pranesh M won Freestyle Friday (his first) with a round to spare on October 3, gliding to a 9.5/10 start in the field of 116 players. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in second place with nine points after becoming the first player to finally beat...
WFM Anna Cramling is about to go around the world in four boards in the next episode of Kids vs. Stars! The popular streamer from Sweden will take on four kids from different continents in a clock simul on October 6, starting at 12 p.m.…
GM Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, scored a 6-0 clean sweep in a simultaneous display as her Global Chess Festival celebrated its 11th edition. The event, staged on September 30 in Budapest, attracted thousands of visit...