Last season, Saint Louis University, SLU, won the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) in convincing fashion. On September 30, they began their title defense by winning their first match of the Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 just as convin...
GM Anish Giri played a perfect slow, grinding game to defeat GM Hans Niemann and win the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss with 8/11. Giri takes the $90,000 top prize and earns a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, where he'll be joined by GM…
In round that barely lasted two hours, we saw two draws in both semifinal matches of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. The scores, in GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Levon Aronian, remain eq...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a change to its rating regulations that will already take effect on October 1, removing the so-called 400-point rule for players rated above 2650. The change was triggered by GM Hikaru Nakamu...
Enough with do-or-die from move one—steer the game toward strategic waters that you understand with the new Anna Cramling's 1.d4 - Part 1 course!
Great strategists like GM Magnus Carlsen have taken over the chess world with their calm and ...
The Speed Chess Championship (SCC) is back, and drama is guaranteed as the event will reignite the fiercest rivalries in chess today. Starting October 13, the championship will once again pit GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Hans Niemann a...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu blundered with a second on his clock to turn a promising position into a pawn-down endgame, but GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed a win as their 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals semifinal began with a draw. The other match-...
GM Andrew Tang has reclaimed equal third position on Bullet Brawl's all-time leaderboard after prevailing over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in a sprint to the finish in Saturday's arena.
Tang combined pace and precision to amass a score of 162 points, e...
GM Alexander Grischuk won his second Freestyle Friday of the year on September 26, recovering from a 1.5/3 start by winning his last eight games to clear the 135-player field by a full point. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Jan-Krzysztof Duda were Grischu...
Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro continues to rewrite the history books. The 11-year-old won the Legends & Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid on Thursday, clinching first place with a round to spare. Along the way, he secured his fir...