GM Hans Niemann decisively beat fellow American 2700 GM Awonder Liang in a 12-game match in Paris, France. Niemann went undefeated throughout the fast-classical match, winning three games and securing a final 7.5-4.5 victory. The players competed ...
24-year-old Indian star GM Vaishali Rameshbabu will play Chinese GM Ju Wenjun for the women's world championship title after clinching the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates with a final-round win over GM Kateryna Lagno. GM Bibisara Assaubayeva could ha...
GM Haik Martirosyan scored 10/11 to win his first-ever Titled Tuesday on April 14, starting out 9/9 and (after playing 267 moves to split his last two games) carrying that to his first ever win in the event. Last week's victor GM Sina Movahed scor...
St. Louis University (SLU) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) have combined to win the last seven Collegiate Chess League championships, but the spring 2026 season will crown a new champion. The SRM Institute of Science and Technolog...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare after a draw against GM Anish Giri in round 13. More importantly than the €70,000 prize, he will be the next challenger to GM Gukesh Dommaraju for the worl...
You can now personalize your Chessable training like never before. Curate your repertoire with the very best parts of each course with the new Repertoire feature. Add variations or entire chapters to your own custom course—and then add a per...
GM Nihal Sarin won the Menorca Open Masters, scoring two wins against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju along the way. Nihal's 6/10 score was enough for clear first place, half a point ahead of GMs Ruslan Ponomariov and Richard Rapport. Gukesh had t...
As a nine-year-old last year, FM Aarit Kapil stunned none other than GM Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday. Recently, he also broke the 3000 barrier on Chess.com, and now the Indian prodigy has become one of the youngest players ever to ...
GM Javokhir Sindarov is guaranteed at least a playoff to win the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after a 35-minute draw vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura put him two points clear with two rounds to go. GM Anish Giri came agonizingly close to moving within 1....
IM Renato Terry blazed to a second straight Bullet Brawl victory on Saturday after triumphing over GM Jose Martinez in a sprint to the finish. Martinez and Terry were neck and neck for most of the second half until a 10-game winning streak sa...