GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won the 2025 FIDE Circuit and joined 2024 winner GM Fabiano Caruana in qualifying for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has now announced that for 2026-7 two years will be c...
Both day-one leaders built on their momentum to earn maiden titles on day two. GM Wesley So won 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, his first time winning the title after six attempts. He finished in sole first with 12/18, while GMs Nihal Sari...
GM Hikaru Nakamura kept the Bullet Brawl ball rolling with his second straight win of 2026 after snatching the $400 first prize from GM Andrew Tang's grasp in the final moments of Saturday's event. Tang dominated in the first half but slumped in t...
GM Wesley So leads at the halfway point of 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with seven points out of nine games. After blundering into a mate-in-one the first game, So stormed back to snatch the lead from GM Arjun Erigaisi, who started with…
GMs Denis Lazavik, Alexey Sarana, and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the three 3 0 Thursday tournaments on January 8. It was Bortnyk's first victory in the event, while the other GMs took their second title. IM Anna Sargsyan won the women's prizes in the f...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is your Freestyle Friday winner on January 9, after he recovered from a loss in round three by never losing again. It was Bortnyk's sixth win of the tournament, more than anyone besides GM Hikaru Nakamura. Bortnyk still needed...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid tournament with 6.5 points out of nine games on Friday. It's his second time winning the tournament, the first being in 2022, and he earns $10,000. He dedicated his victory to his ...
On January 7, FIDE and Freestyle Chess announced the first FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, taking place at Weissenhaus, Germany, from February 13-15. Now, Chess.com is hosting the qualifier that determines the remaining player who will co...
GMs Viswanathan Anand and Nihal Sarin ended day two of 2026 Tata Steel Chess India in the shared lead with 4.5 points out of six games. Anand lost his first game against GM Arjun Erigaisi but bounced back with two wins, while Nihal won all…
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games and six rounds left in the Swiss portion. GM Magnus Carlsen, who dominated the rapid world championshi...