GM Alireza Firouzja has taken clear first place in the 2026 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters after making a draw with GM Arjun Erigaisi in the final round. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov could have forced a playoff with a win, but instead he overpressed a...
GM Alireza Firouzja goes into the final round of the 2026 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters with a half-point lead after making a draw against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov while his co-leader GM Arjun Erigaisi lost to GM Nihal Sarin. The other big story ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is your winner for Titled Tuesday on July 21, scoring 9.5/11 points and a big win over GM Fabiano Caruana in the seventh round that proved to be the difference between first and second place—Caruana also scored 9.5 ...
GM Judit Polgar, the greatest woman chess player in history, was invited to be Hungary's next president, a largely ceremonial position with a maximum term of five years. On Sunday, Hungary's new Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced on social medi...
Chess will soon be coming to the Junior Olympic Games. The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has announced that it will add chess as its latest competition, joining established programs covering dozens of sports. Matt Thomas, the first American chessbo...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has beaten World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to catch GM Alireza Firouzja in the lead with two rounds of the 2026 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters to go. Gukesh sprang an opening surprise and gained a winning position, but lost his w...
GM Alireza Firouzja enters the second half of the 2026 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters as the sole leader after a largely uneventful draw in round four against GM Hans Niemann. The remaining games were also drawn, with World Champion Gukesh Dommara...
Less than 48 hours after claiming that 3+0 is his "best time control," GM Hikaru Nakamura outclassed an elite field to win his 62nd career Bullet Brawl title. Nakamura stayed within striking distance of the frequently changing leaders before surgi...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the first player other than GM Alireza Firouzja to win a game in the 2026 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters after carefully defusing an inventive queen sacrifice by GM Hans Niemann. Firouzja leads by half a point after making...
GM Hikaru Nakamura streamed his way to victory in the first 3 0 Thursday on July 16. On steam, he described the time control as clearly his strongest, explaining that it's faster than the five-minute time control used in Titled Tuesdays and that f...