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 ultimately...
In a week when GM Hikaru Nakamura pushed Chess.com's blitz record to new heights, it is fitting that he also broke the record for the most Bullet Brawl victories in a single year, albeit with three months to spare. A dominant run in the second…
Uzbekistan held on to its sole lead with 18 points, while India continued to pursue closely behind on 17 points after the 10th and penultimate round of the 46th Chess Olympiad 2026. Uzbekistan and India scored dominating 3.5-0.5 victories over Arm...
GM Awonder Liang blanked his opposition with 3-0 victories in all the matches to convincingly win the 2026 Seirawan Chess Championship, an event he won in 2024 too. It was a brisk evening for the 23-year-old American GM, who was hardly in any trou...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo scored in the top four in three different 3 0 Thursday Tournaments on October 1. His nine points in the first tournament weren't quite enough to win, as he took second on tiebreaks behind IM Quoc Hy Nguyen. Maghsoodloo domina...
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the return tournament of Freestyle Friday on October 2 with nine points, taking the tournament outright ahead of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Pranav Venkatesh, and SL Narayanan on 8.5/11. Pranav clinched an appearance in next ye...
Freestyle Friday returns to Chess.com this Friday, October 2, resuming the race for places in the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championships. Ten weekly tournaments remain before December's knockout finals, which will award one qualification sp...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus are the stars on an October FIDE rating list dominated by the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand. Abdusattorov climbed two spots to world number-five after picking up 18 rating points and individual ...
A man from Melbourne has been charged over an alleged stalking campaign against Australian chess streamer and content creator WCM Hannah Sayce, which reportedly included making false drug allegations and led to her detention in Qatar.
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9z Globant, a team with 962 participants, took first place in the first Chess Club Showdown on Wednesday, September 30. The event featured nine esports teams, ranging in size from 151 to 1142 members. Everyone played a two-hour arena of five-minut...