GM Alireza Firouzja is through to the Grand Final of the 2026 Bullet Chess Championship after winning an exhilarating Winners Final against GM Arjun Erigaisi 13-11, including tiebreaks, this Friday. In the Losers Bracket, three players remai...
GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Le Quang Liem, Matthias Bluebaum, Volodar Murzin and Christopher Yoo are among the players who secured their spots in the inaugural Esports Nations Cup Finals, with at least 82 countries and territories set to be repres...
GM Pranesh M began 9/9 and finished 10.5/11 in Freestyle Friday on June 26, his first victory of the year and fourth overall, as the first half of the Freestyle Friday Championship (FFC) came to its conclusion. FFC leader GM Pranav Venkatesh finis...
Young Norwegian FM Havard Haug won his first 3 0 Thursday title June 25, scoring 9.5/11 in the second event of the day. The other winners were more experienced champions. GM Dmitry Andreikin took his second 3 0 Thursday title of the month, defeati...
The race for the presidency of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) officially kicked off on Friday as Wadim Rosenstein announced his long-expected candidacy, hours before fellow German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner entered the competition...