With no decisive results after game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, tensions rise as we enter the second and potentially last game of each match. IM Divya Deshmukh held a quick draw with Black against GM Tan Zhongyi, while GM Ko...
When basketball star Victor Wembanyama (Wemby) says that it's time for a game, chess players show up! It happened last December in New York, and again on Sunday in his hometown of Le Chesnay, France. Just last week, Wemby announced the Hoop Gambit...
Nineteen-year-old IM Divya Deshmukh has reached the Semifinals of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after winning the all-Indian tiebreak clash with GM Harika Dronavalli 2-0. Divya dominated an impressive first game before Harika came very clos...
We're excited to announce the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship (WSCC), the most exciting speed chess event for women in the world! Starting on August 4, the event will feature a $75,000 prize fund and the same thrilling format fans already kn...
GM Levon Aronian has been crowned the $200,000 winner of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Sunday after overcoming GM Hans Niemann 1.5-0.5 in the Final. Aronian held firm in an opposite-colored bishop ending in the first before putting o...
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...