GM Wesley So is back in the top-10 on the September 2025 FIDE rating list after winning the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, while 20-year-old GM Vincent Keymer has broken into the club for the first time after winning the 2025 Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen's career as a fashion model is not over. Now the 34-year-old has made a comeback with Dutch fashion brand G-Star for its Fall 2025 campaign, marking a continuation of a 15-year-long collaboration.
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GM Daniel Naroditsky scooped up his 31st Bullet Brawl title and the event's $400 first prize on Saturday after outpacing 119 titled players for the second week in a row. An electric 15/16 start helped the 29-year-old commentator amass an unassaila...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his fourth Freestyle Friday on August 29, moving past GM Arjun Erigaisi for the second-most in the tournament's brief history, trailing only GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Nakamura who finished second this week, half a point b...
The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League (GCL) is back for its third season, again with a jaw-dropping lineup of the strongest players in the world. Now, for the first time ever, amateur and titled players alike can compete in the GCL Contenders, an ...
The Saint Louis Chess Club will reopen its doors in October following a major renovation and expansion, and feature a clash between none other than former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. The match is followed by a rapid event...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce GothamChess vs. The World, an exclusive Vote Chess match between IM Levy Rozman and the global chess community, starting September 30. Will the internet's most-watched chess streamer be able to outwit the collecti...
GM Wesley So won the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, his second time winning the elite event since 2016. While all other classical games ended in draws, So won on demand against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to reach three-way blitz tiebreaks with GMs Fabiano Ca...
WIM Yosha Iglesias had already made chess history by becoming the first transgender woman international master. Last weekend, the 37-year-old added another accomplishment by winning the French Women's Championship, as the second transgender woman ...
Are you ready to compete in one of the craziest variants ever invented? The Chess.com Duck Chess Championship is coming on September 4 and will feature a $2,500 prize fund. With the most savage tactics and a fearsome rubber duck, anything can happ...