GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games and six rounds left in the Swiss portion. GM Magnus Carlsen, who dominated the rapid world championshi...
GMs Viswanathan Anand and Hans Niemann lead 2026 Tata Steel Chess India with 2.5 points out of the first three games. Anand scored wins against GMs Wesley So and Aravindh Chithambaram, while Niemann scored his against 2024 Rapid World Champio...
Freestyle Chess and FIDE have agreed to join forces to stage the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, scheduled for February 13–15, 2026, in Weissenhaus, Germany.
The surprise announcement was made on Wednesday, just over one mon...
Freestyle Chess and FIDE have agreed to join forces to stage the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, scheduled for February 13–15, 2026, in Weissenhaus, Germany.
The surprise announcement was made on Wednesday, just over one mon...
GMs Viswanathan Anand and Hans Niemann lead 2026 Tata Steel Chess India with 2.5 points out of the first three games. Anand scored wins against GMs Wesley So and Aravindh Chithambaram, while Niemann scored his against 2024 Rapid World Champio...
Five national chess federations have formally launched a legal challenge against the International Chess Federation (FIDE) at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), contesting the decisions taken at December's online General Assembly to lift re...