GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the highest-rated 15-year-old of all time, is now world number-15 on the live rating list after winning a time-trouble battle on his 2026 European Chess Club Cup debut. GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Anish Giri also won thei...
The favorites continued to cruise in round two of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, with GMs Wei Yi, Arjun Erigaisi, and Richard Rapport among the stars to move to 2/2. Top seed Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club again rested GMs Anish Giri and Yagi...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Tuan Minh Le fended off prodigies and numerous 3000+ rated opponents to win October 8's 3 0 Thursday tournaments outright.
Duda dominated the 215-player-strong first tournament and came close to...
After his three wins in the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship so far in different endgames, GM Wesley So defeated one of his nearest pursuers, GM Andy Woodward, in a pawn endgame in the eighth round. He is now on six points and extends his sole…
GM Hikaru Nakamura extended the most dominant run in Bullet Brawl history on Saturday, cruising to a resounding 46-point victory with a score of 190 points. The American secured his sixth consecutive first-place finish and netted the $400 first pr...
A day after becoming the first 3500-rated Chess.com Blitz player in site history, GM Hikaru Nakamura upped his record to 3503 while streaming Titled Tuesday live from Sithonia, Greece, on October 6. Unfortunately for Nakamura, he did not ultimatel...
The top teams could rest the likes of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus while still scoring 6-0 clean sweeps in round one of the 41st European Chess Club Cup in Budva, Montenegro. GM Nils Grandelius was one of the few ...
GM Wesley So remained the only unbeaten player and sole leader of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship with five points when he fought back from a worse position to defeat GM Ray Robson in round seven. Among the joint leaders from the previous round, ...
Grandmasters, the documentary offering an inside look at GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and the struggle over chess's future, has reached movie theaters across the United States. The film screened at 92 AMC locations on October 11 an...
GM Sina Movahed won Freestyle Friday on October 16, riding a 7/7 start to sole first place on nine points. GM Haowen Xue finished second with 8.5/11, surpassing GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on tiebreaks. The win was Movahed's sixth in Freestyle Friday, t...