Despite the end result, game one of the title match between GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals was a true, five-hour-long struggle. Caruana reached a winning queen endgame, but it was too difficult t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's wins in state championships have taken him back to 2816, a peak he reached exactly a decade ago, but also provoked FIDE to change its rules. Elsewhere GM Anish Giri's victory in the FIDE Grand Swiss took him up to world number...
Arena Kings got a fresh new start on October 1; the new monthly version of Arena Kings continues to showcase the Chess.com streaming community as it always has, and only adds to that sense of community by allowing players to join together in a lar...
IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess, has just made chess history. Just two moves into the GothamChess vs. The World match on Chess.com, he has officially broken the world record for the largest online chess match, surpassing 144,000 partic...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play the title match of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals. Caruana won his match 15-13 against GM Levon Aronian, while Vachier-Lagrave won 17-11 against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. In a cruel tu...
GM Magnus Carlsen, perhaps the greatest player to ever play the game, has become a father for the first time. The five-time world champion and his wife Ella Victoria Carlsen have welcomed their first child on September 27.
The joyful news was fi...
"HN" won another Titled Tuesday on September 30, but this time it was GM Hans Niemann who took home the victory, while last week's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura was runner-up this week. Only two draws kept the undefeated Niemann from a perfect score, ...
FM James Canty III is the Super Heavyweight Chessboxing World Champion after winning two chess-and-boxing bouts in the 7th World Chessboxing Championships in Loznica, Serbia. He ducked and weaved in the ring and was just too fast for his opponents...
Last season, Saint Louis University, SLU, won the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) in convincing fashion. On September 30, they began their title defense by winning their first match of the Collegiate Chess League Fall 2025 just as convin...
GM Anish Giri played a perfect slow, grinding game to defeat GM Hans Niemann and win the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss with 8/11. Giri takes the $90,000 top prize and earns a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, where he'll be joined by GM…