56-year-old Ukrainian GM Vasyl Ivanchuk played a staggering 27 games in 19 days in April as he picked up 40 rating points to return to the Top 100 on the May 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Wesley So moved up to 11th, while the biggest…
The group stage of PogChamps 6 is over, but there are still more pieces to be hung and games to be thrown, as we are now ready to move on to the knockout stage of the tournament.
A festival of Botez Gambits like you've never…
GM Vladimir Fedoseev has won the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with three rounds to spare and ultimately finished with 26.5 points, one of the highest scores ever in Grand Chess Tour rapid and blitz events. He takes home $40,000.
The Su...
There was no shortage of name recognition atop this week's Titled Tuesday standings, with GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann claiming victory on April 29. Both won without the need of tiebreaks and without losing a single game, although Nak...
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The wait is finally over. PogChamps 6 started with a bang after a one-year hiatus left fans longing for more hilarious moments and unbelievable blunders. And today's Group A round-robin stage certainly delivered both.
The three highest-rated pla...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev leads the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland by nearly four points going into the final day. After previously making six draws to end the rapid portion, he nearly "pulled a Magnus" on the first day of blitz by scoring a re...
20-year-old Thalia from Chester, United Kingdom, won BBC's Chess Masters: The Endgame after beating Richie (63, Liverpool) in the eighth and final episode aired on Monday. The first episode of Chess Masters attracted just under 1.2 million viewers...
GM Alireza Firouzja lost on time just when he seemed to have escaped against GM Aravindh Chithambaram and was set to be the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland going into the 18 rounds of blitz. Instead he was caught by…
PogChamps 6 is about to start! Soon, 12 celebrities will come together to compete for the title of PogChampion, a piece of the $100,000 prize fund, and bragging rights!
To celebrate the sixth edition of everyone's favorite amateur tournament, Ch...