GM Lei Tingjie continues her impressive run in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, scoring another clean 2-0 victory, this time with a rather convincing victory against GM Nana Dzagnidze, to climb to women's world number-two in the live ratings.
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World numbers one and two Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will battle for the $100,000 third-place prize on the final day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas. Carlsen lost his first game of the day to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu but bl...
Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child.
While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has returned to the top spot in the latest edition of Bullet Brawl, two months after winning his last title. Naroditsky outpaced 105 titled players, including the second- and third-placed GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and IM Yoseph Tah...
GMs Lei Tingjie and Koneru Humpy struck first in their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup quarterfinal matches. Humpy's win over IM Song Yuxin was convincing if bumpy at times, while Lei confessed she played "pretty horribly" before turning things around...
GM Hans Niemann and Levon Aronian will be at least $140,000 richer when the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas comes to its conclusion on Sunday after the pair won their respective Semifinals, setting up a Final that was "written in the stars," ...
All four 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round-four tiebreaks were won by Indian players. GMs Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Humpy were the first to book Quarterfinals spots, defeating GMs Zhu Jiner and Alexandra Kosteniuk respectively 1.5-0.5 in the ...
For the third time in seven weeks, Freestyle Friday was almost over before it started on July 18, with GM Dmitry Andreikin becoming the third player to take the tournament on a perfect 11/11 score, following GM Jeffery Xiong on June 6 and GM Hikar...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a strong field for the highly anticipated FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, scheduled to take place September 3-16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
2025 has been packed with great chess events, but many more...