There are two leaders after four rounds at the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters: Indian GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram, a point ahead of the field. Praggnanandhaa scored his second consecutive victory, with Black against...
GM Magnus Carlsen's world famous jeans from the 2024 World Rapid Championship have been sold at auction for a staggering $36,000. The proceeds will go to charity.
An anonymous bidder had the highest bid on Saturday following a 10-day bidding war...
Martin's your first chess opponent. He's played over 500 million games. And he's never gotten any better. Now, it's time to meet his family: Martin Jr., Marty, Martin XIII, and Martina.
Are you ready to face off against the Martin family? Head o...
FM Matfey Rogov now holds two Chess.com variant titles after the 17-year-old won the 2025 Chess.com 3-Check Championship in a thrilling Grand Final Reset. Rogov, who is also the site's Atomic Chess champion, played the "game of the tournament" to ...
FM Matfey Rogov now holds two Chess.com variant titles after the 17-year-old won the 2025 Chess.com 3-Check Championship in a thrilling Grandfinal Reset. Rogov, who is also the site's Atomic Chess champion, played the "game of the tournament" to d...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram took the sole lead of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after winning his game in round three against GM Wei Yi. There were two more decisive results: GM Vincent Keymer bounced back from yesterday's loss by beating GM...
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...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday outright over a field of 307 players on February 28, doing so with a win over erstwhile leader GM Shant Sargsyan in the final round. GM Hikaru Nakamura ended up taking second place from Sargsyan on tiebreaks,...
Eight players have qualified for the 3-Check Chess Championship 2025 Knockout, the second event of this year's Community Chess Championships (following January's Puzzle Championship). The eight hopefuls for the Knockout ended up being FM Luuk Base...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina drew against IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to win the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix, her second Grand Prix victory in a row. She finished top on tiebreaks ahead of Munguntuul and GM Koneru Humpy, who took down IM Bibisara...