After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots…
Kids vs. Stars will return for its fifth edition on July 5, starting at 12 p.m. ET / 18:00 CEST / 9:30 p.m. IST. This time, world-class commentator GM David Howell will take on four young prodigies to try to keep the stars' win streak…
The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup wasn't the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107…
GM Magnus Carlsen struggled on the final day but still won the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare and a 2.5-point margin. GM Wesley So took second place after winning a crazy game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the fin...
Nine-year-old CM Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore has added another milestone to his young chess career by sensationally scoring his first international master (IM) norm at the 10th Marina Viva Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. Ashwath is just the ...
24 hours after winning his fifth Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Chess.com's servers to capture his 43rd Bullet Brawl title in a commanding fashion. Nakamura and GM Andrew Tang broke away from the 135-strong field on Saturday, how...
GM Magnus Carlsen started day four of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz trailing World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by four points but ended the day two points ahead after scoring 7.5/9 while Gukesh crashed to 1.5/9. GM Jan-Krzysztof Dud...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju increased his lead over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to three points and kept a four-point gap to GM Magnus Carlsen as he made two draws and scored a dominant win over GM Wesley So to score 14/18 in the rapid section ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to win five Freestyle Friday on July 4 after scoring an undefeated 10/11, following his first perfect run in last week's edition. Nakamura has now gone 29 games without a loss in Freestyle Fridays, with h...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju has done it again, beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen from a losing position to take the sole lead in the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz. "Now we can question Magnus' domination," said 13th World Ch...