GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, and Javokhir Sindarov are through to the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Semifinals. Carlsen won for the second time against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, as did Caruana against World Ch...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Hikaru Nakamura, and Alireza Firouzja are the players left in the Winners Bracket after day one of the 2025 Chessable Masters Playoffs. Firouzja's match against GM Fabiano Caruana was the longest and closest, on...
Team Falcons, the winner of the 2024 Esports World Cup, has announced the signing of none other than world number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura. Meanwhile, Serbian esports organization Aurora Gaming also picked up the World Blitz Champion GM Ia...
In week four of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) the powerful University of Missouri—Columbia team showed why they're favorites to make it back to the league finals with a dominant victory against a prestigious Yale University t...
GMs Andrey Esipenko, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Wei Yi, Alexander Grischuk, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sam Sevian, and Anish Giri qualified for the 2025 Chessable Masters Playoffs. Wei qualified directly by winning the Swiss tournament, while the oth...
Ukrainian esports organization Natus Vincere (NAVI) has entered the competitive chess scene with a bang by snapping up star grandmasters Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk. Meanwhile, world number-nine GM Wei Yi has also been ...
Amidst a week of top chess players signing with esports organizations, GM Sam Sevian made a statement by winning Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 top prize, 24 hours after claiming his first Freestyle Friday victory. Sevian outs...
GM Sam Sevian won Freestyle Friday on February 14, scoring 9.5 points for an outright victory and becoming the first U.S. player to win a Freestyle Friday. There were 380 players in today's event, which began only hours after the conclusion of the...
Global esports powerhouse Team Liquid has announced the signings of not just one, but two superstars of chess. Five-time World Champion and world number-one Magnus Carlsen and the 2018 challenger, world number-two Fabiano Caruana will represent th...
GM Vincent Keymer won the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam after making a draw in his second classical game against GM Fabiano Caruana. Keymer neutralized the latter's tremendous effort with a pawn sacrifice in the opening. GM Magn...