GM Zhu Jiner won a fourth game in six rounds of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu to retain the sole lead and climb above GM Tan Zhongyi to world number-five on the Women's FIDE rating list. GM Humpy Koneru…
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk rocketed to a second straight Bullet Brawl victory and won the $400 first prize after outpacing 140 titled players during Saturday's event. Bortnyk's 65.5/74 gave him a score of 333, 34 points higher than the second-placed IM ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the sole lead in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open as the only player with a perfect score after five rounds. He enjoyed two smooth victories on Saturday against GM Etienne Bacrot and 53-year-old GM Victor Mikhalevski, wh...
Luis Ignacio was crowned the winner of the 2025 Chess.com 4 Player Chess Championship and will receive the $1,800 first prize after winning three out of four games in the Grand Final ahead of Hamlet Antonyan, Aswin Devendran, and Jose Bolea. ...
14 players are on a perfect score after three rounds in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. On a day of upsets, several pre-tournament favorites lost: GM Aravindh Chithambaram (against GM Maciej Klekowski), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (against Slovak I...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu beat IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to score the only win of round five of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, but we were a move or two away from seeing leader GM Zhu Jiner toppled. The Chinese star was hit by a fine…
There were no upsets on the top boards after round one of the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. The closest we came to an upset (even a draw) was in the games GM Fabiano Caruana vs. CM Carlos Hauser and FM Matthias Bach vs. GM Levon Aronian.…
GM Zhu Jiner beat IM Alina Kashlinskaya in round four to retain the sole lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 3.5/4. Just half a point back are local heroes GM Humpy Koneru and IM Divya Deshmukh, who picked up wins against…
The Chess.com Community Championships are more than just a series of tournaments. It's a celebration of chess enthusiasts coming together to connect, compete, and have fun. So far, we've seen our members compete in Puzzles, 3-Check, Atomic, and 4 ...
Drawing her game with IM Salome Melia was enough for GM Zhu Jiner to become the sole leader at the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix with 2.5/3. That was because co-leader IM Divya Deshmukh lost her first game, with the black pieces to GM…