GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is back in the top 10 and has overtaken GM Arjun Erigaisi as Indian number-one after winning the 2026 Grand Chess Tour. A marathon month in St. Louis had a big impact on the September FIDE rating list as victory in the...
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GM Hikaru Nakamura notched his 65th career Bullet Brawl title and 16th of 2026 on Saturday after finishing 23 points clear of the field, despite taking his "foot off the gas" at the end of the arena.
Nakamura scored 51/65 and posted a score of…
The 13th World Champion GM Garry Kasparov will face GM Veselin Topalov, the opponent who defeated him in the final rated classical game of his career, in a $144,000 Chess960 match in St. Louis.
The two former world champions will play 12 games ov...
No one has ever scored a perfect 11/11 in 3 0 Thursday, but GM Jeffery Xiong became the closest player to that elusive mark in the second tournament on August 27. Xiong won his first 10 games and had a forced mate on the board…
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu came back from behind to win the final match against GM Fabiano Caruana and claim his maiden title in the 2026 Grand Chess Tour Finals, which comes with $200,000. The Indian grandmaster started the day six points behin...
We're excited to announce a special edition of the Gambit Cup, a poker event taking place on August 31. The event starts at 12 p.m. ET / 18:00 CEST / 9:30 p.m. IST and is open to all Gambit members.
The Gambit Cup is a…
GMs Bibisara Assaubayeva and Anna Muzychuk have taken the final spots in the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Grand Final after winning the WR Women's Chess Tour Europe 2026 events in Saint-Tropez, France. Assaubayeva survived two armageddon games befor...
GM Wesley So won his third title and $87,500 at the 2026 Sinquefield Cup on Wednesday. After all the classical games ended in draws, he and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu contested the champion's title in rapid playoffs. The two rapid games ended in...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 9-3 in the 2026 Grand Chess Tour Finals title match after making a draw in game two. Praggnanandhaa had huge winning chances in the opposite-color bishop endgame, but Caruana surviv...