GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Rauf Mamedov, and M Pranesh scored 7.5/9 to finish in the top-four and qualify for the Knockout Stage of the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Play-In. They'll be joined by the likes of GMs Ding Lir...
Don't adjust your calendars: GMs Magnus Carlsen and Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday on February 11, and they've done it again on March 11. Neither player was quite as dominant as they were a month ago, both scoring 9.5 points this week. Carl...
How can chess evolve to reach an even wider audience? What lessons can it take from other sports? These were just some of the questions tackled at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last weekend.
The annual conference took place in ...
In week seven of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL), two strong teams fought for a shot at the league playoffs. The University of the Texas Rio Grande Valley (TRGV) narrowly held off Lviv State University of Physical Culture by a score ...
GM Daniil Dubov won an 18-game blitz match against GM Hans Niemann with a final score of 9.5-8.5. As the prize, Niemann had agreed to answer one question with a polygraph test. The match, which took place March 7-8 in Moscow, Russia was a follow-u...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen scored 3/3 for Offerspill on the final weekend of the Norwegian Team Chess Championship. His wins over GM Simen Agdestein and IMs Kristian Stuvik Holm and Alparslan Isik saw him gain 4.1 rating points to climb ...
17-year-old WFM Eman Sawan from Palestine has emerged as one of the brightest stars in a region with limited support and traditions for chess. Her story has ignited a wave of support from the chess community with over 70 donors backing her dream t...
GM Andrew Tang joined GM Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as one of three players to win three Bullet Brawls in 2025 after posting a 29-game streak in Saturday's event. Tang scored 70 wins, one draw, and eight losses and scored 258 points, ah...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram continue to share the lead by a full point after their draw in round five of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Wei Yi reached a 50-percent score after winning the only decisive game,...
18-year-old Indian GM Pranav Venkatesh dominated the FIDE World Junior Championship 2025 to be crowned champion ahead of 11 other grandmasters on Friday. 16-year-old WIM Anna Shukhman took the Girls title a full point clear of the field.
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