GMs Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025 after three rounds, both winning for the first time in the tournament. Caruana toppled the previous leader, GM Alireza Firouzja, while Praggnanandhaa wo...
GM Christopher Yoo won the May 9 Freestyle Friday in a runaway, scoring 10.5 points and securing outright victory with a round to spare. Only a draw in round five against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi kept Yoo from the first perfect 11/11 score in tournam...
GM Anna Muzychuk is on course to qualify for the Women's Candidates Tournament after winning a second game in a row to join GM Vaishali Rameshbabu in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead on 2.5/3. GM Tan Zhongyi had started the ...
[Edited on 4/30/2025:] Please note that DrLupo will be replaced in the Consolation Bracket, as per our announcement.
DrLupo has been closed for a fair play violation that occured during today’s Pogchamps event. He will be replaced i...
Both players who lost the previous day, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, bounced back with wins in the two decisive games of round two in the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Deac scored his first white win in a Grand Chess T...
Disney+ is set to debut the new miniseries Rematch in the United States on May 21. The English-language production dramatizes the historic "man vs. machine" battle from 1997 between GM Garry Kasparov and IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, and was fair...
It's the first tournament of its kind: CoachChamps, where eight coaches select teams of four with the goal of guiding their squad to victory! We previously announced half of the coaching field, but now it's time to share the biggest name yet: none...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Tan Zhongyi lead the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on a perfect 2/2 after beating IMs Lela Javakhishvili and Olga Badelka in round two. The most significant clash of the round, meanwhile, saw GM Anna Muzychu...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Wesley So started off with wins in round one of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. Firouzja won our Game of the Day against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, where the French numbers one and two battled in the French Defens...
The first Titled Tuesdays of May went to GMs Magnus Carlsen and Javokhir Sindarov. Carlsen scored 10 points in his victory and Sindarov scored 9.5, but both needed tiebreaks, Carlsen over GM Bharath Subramaniyam and Sindarov ahead of last week's l...