GM Daniel Naroditsky has returned to the top spot in the latest edition of Bullet Brawl, two months after winning his last title. Naroditsky outpaced 105 titled players, including the second- and third-placed GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and IM Yoseph Tah...
GMs Lei Tingjie and Koneru Humpy struck first in their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup quarterfinal matches. Humpy's win over IM Song Yuxin was convincing if bumpy at times, while Lei confessed she played "pretty horribly" before turning things around...
GM Hans Niemann and Levon Aronian will be at least $140,000 richer when the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas comes to its conclusion on Sunday after the pair won their respective Semifinals, setting up a Final that was "written in the stars," ...
All four 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round-four tiebreaks were won by Indian players. GMs Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Humpy were the first to book Quarterfinals spots, defeating GMs Zhu Jiner and Alexandra Kosteniuk respectively 1.5-0.5 in the ...
For the third time in seven weeks, Freestyle Friday was almost over before it started on July 18, with GM Dmitry Andreikin becoming the third player to take the tournament on a perfect 11/11 score, following GM Jeffery Xiong on June 6 and GM Hikar...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a strong field for the highly anticipated FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, scheduled to take place September 3-16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
2025 has been packed with great chess events, but many more...
A 10-hour marathon day at the $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas saw GM Levon Aronian follow up his elimination of GM Magnus Carlsen on Wednesday by knocking out GM Hikaru Nakamura 2,5-1.5 on Thursday.
Aronian is joined in the s...
Second seed GM Zhu Jiner struck back with a powerful game against IM Divya Deshmukh to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round four match to tiebreaks. Chinese stars GM Lei Tingjie, GM Tan Zhongyi, and IM Song Yuxin all sealed Quarterfinal sp...
GM Levon Aronian made a statement at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas on Wednesday by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen 2-0 in a tiebreak showdown, keeping his chances alive of winning the $200,000 first prize, and in the process, condemning Car...