Freestyle Friday is still a relatively new event, with its seventh-ever rendition being held on March 7. In it, GM Arjun Erigaisi set two firsts: he became the first player to win any two Freestyle Fridays and the first player to win two in a…
GM Fabiano Caruana won the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis convincingly after a strong final day when he beat GM Ray Robson twice. Caruana scored 6.5/9 and pocketed $51,625 for his three-day workweek.
GM Wesley So, who won his blitz g...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram leads by a half-point going into the last round of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. He had a minor chance to extend his lead after GM David Navara made an early mistake, but the players reached a quick draw. GM Prag...
The second Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event is scheduled to take place in Paris between April 7 and 14. As part of our announced partnership with Freestyle Chess, we offer a qualification path for each event to any of our members. The Qualifi...
A single win in their rapid game on Wednesday was enough for GM Fabiano Caruana to take the lead from GM Wesley So at the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis. In this event, where money prizes are connected to single-game results, Caruana h...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won a golden game with Black against GM Anish Giri to take the sole lead in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round seven. GM Ediz Gurel won his first game in the event against GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen with…
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
Can chess continue its meteoric rise? How will the game evolve in the esports landscape? And what role does sports analytics play in shaping competitive chess strategies? These key questions will be discussed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf...
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11.…
GM Wesley So had the best start on day one of the 2025 Champions Showdown: The Kings, a three-day exhibition event in St. Louis, Missouri, held just ahead of the American Cup. Six American grandmasters play rapid, blitz, and semi-classical chess f...