Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by double digits, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5.
There are three players in the Lo...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on June 27 with a perfect 11/11 score, matching the feat accomplished three weeks ago by GM Jeffery Xiong. In the 23rd Freestyle Friday held so far, Nakamura earned his fourth victory, breaking a tie with GM...
India's latest chess sensation, CM Aarit Kapil, is only nine years old. This week, he came within inches of defeating none other than world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday. The game ended in a dramatic draw, but the perf...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky will meet in the Winners Final of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. Firouzja was a runaway train against GM Nihal Sarin, winning 17.5-6.5, while it took Naroditsky 32 games, with tiebreaks, to defeat GM...
The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
The announcement, first reported by the Times of India on Th...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Daniel Naroditsky, and Sam Sevian are the last ones left in the Winners Bracket of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship after day one. All four players won both of their matches to stay at the top, while the other ...
Get ready for wild sacs and spectacular king hunts! The Chess.com Bughouse Chess Championship, the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships, begins on July 7 at 11 a.m. ET/17:00 CEST. With five days of competition and a $5,000 pri...
Chess.com is excited to announce our newest bot: IM Julien Song! Since launching his YouTube channel, Song has established himself as a leading chess creator, uploading tournament vlogs, educational speedruns, and unique OTB instructional videos t...
GM Pranav Venkatesh won the early June 24 edition of Titled Tuesday outright with 10 points, a half-point ahead of the winners of the previous two weeks, GMs Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen. It was the 18-year-old's third Titled Tuesday win a...
The complete field for the $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas (July 16-20) has been revealed, with most of the world's elite competing for the $200,000 first price. The event also sees the surprise inclusion of GM-elect Bibisara Assauba...