Just a day ago, GM Magnus Carlsen achieved the seemingly impossible (again). This time, he won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with a perfect 9/9 score. While his stellar performance stole headlines during the five-day event, we review seven ...
GM Zhu Jiner bounced back right away to outplay IM Divya Deshmukh and regain the lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the final round. Zhu would have been the sole leader if IM Alina Kashlinskaya had converted a completely winn...
GM Humpy Koneru is the new sole leader of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix on 5.5/7 after beating GM Zhu Jiner in a dramatic round-seven clash. Zhu is now joined half a point back by GM Divya Deshmukh, who won a fourth game…
GM Ju Wenjun claimed her fourth straight victory against GM Tan Zhongyi in game eight of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Championship. With a dominant 6-2 lead with just four games to go, she is on the brink of securing her fifth Women’s World C...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open with an out-of-this-world, perfect 9/9 score. He had already won the tournament with a round to spare in round eight, but round nine was about cementing his legacy of dominance.
With...
Nigerian chess player Tunde Onakoya and NM Shawn Martinez have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon after playing continuously for an astonishing 64 hours on New York's iconic Times Square.
The impress...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues his streak of perfection in the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, now with seven rounds under his belt. He won a smooth game against GM Awonder Liang before his rollercoaster game against GM Parham Maghsoodloo, whe...
GM Zhu Jiner won a fourth game in six rounds of the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix, beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu to retain the sole lead and climb above GM Tan Zhongyi to world number-five on the Women's FIDE rating list. GM Humpy Koneru…
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk rocketed to a second straight Bullet Brawl victory and won the $400 first prize after outpacing 140 titled players during Saturday's event. Bortnyk's 65.5/74 gave him a score of 333, 34 points higher than the second-placed IM ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the sole lead in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open as the only player with a perfect score after five rounds. He enjoyed two smooth victories on Saturday against GM Etienne Bacrot and 53-year-old GM Victor Mikhalevski, wh...