GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang continued as joint leaders with 2.5 points after their mutual encounter ended in a draw in the third round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship. GM Andy Woodward was rewarded with a win for his dynamic play against G...
GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang won again in round two of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship to lead with 2/2 perfect scores. So was much worse against GM Jeffery Xiong but turned it around, while Liang converted an endgame to give GM Sam Sevian…
History was made in the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday as GM Hikaru Nakamura acquired his fifth straight title, eclipsing a record set and shared by the late GM Daniel Naroditsky and himself back in 2023.
Nakamura made his biggest move in the sec...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo took a step closer to qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship by taking out the latest edition of Freestyle Friday. Maghsoodloo scored 9/11 en route to victory, suffering only a single loss to one of U...
Three-time national champion GM Wesley So celebrated his 33rd birthday with a win over GM Sam Shankland in the first round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship, which started in St. Louis on Friday. GMs Jeffery Xiong and Awonder Liang were the othe...
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...
Josh Smith, an amateur player with a US Chess rating in the 1800s, is set to play GM Daniil Dubov in a 100-game bullet match with up to $20,000 on the line. But there is a catch: Dubov must win every single game to collect…
Europe is about to meet the world's biggest chess creator in person again. IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess, is returning to the old continent for his second tour from October 25 to November 10. Fans in six cities can get tickets to see...
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…