The FYERS American Gambits, led by GM Javokhir Sindarov, dominated a critical match against the Ganges Grandmasters, led by GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, to join a three-way tie with the Grandmasters and GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers on day six o...
Applications are now open for the inaugural $50,000 Naroditsky Fellowship, which will support elite American junior players with training, travel, and tournament preparation in 2027. The deadline to apply is December 1.
The Fellowship is one of t...
GM Javokhir Sindarov's second win in a row, this time over GM Alireza Firouzja, took FYERS American Gambits into the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League lead while Triveni Continental Kings slumped to the bottom after a second loss of the day. ...
Chess.com is once again partnering with legendary GM Judit Polgar to support her festival, the Judit Polgar Global Chess Festival. Judit will play a community simul on September 26 at 7:30 a.m. ET / 13:30 CEST / 5:00 p.m. IST. The event will take ...
GM Alireza Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings continued their comeback by beating the leaders, GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers, as the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League crossed the halfway mark with no teams breaking clear of the pack...
The lead wasn't necessarily the ideal place to be in Titled Tuesday on September 8, before GM Liem Le won his first of the year with a 9.5 score, ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Tobias Koelle on tiebreaks. For the second straight week,…
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GM Magnus Carlsen flagged GM Viswanathan Anand in the opening match of day three of the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League, but it couldn't stop Alpine APL Pipers tasting its first defeat when GM Vidit Gujrathi also lost on time. Vidit and the...
On September 9, Chess.com is hosting the first live FIDE presidential debate of this election. The three candidates—Jan Henric Buettner, Wadim Rosenstein, and Timur Turlov—will join to discuss their visions for the future of ches...
GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers has the only perfect record of the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League after scoring a dramatic win over GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's Ganges Grandmasters. Nepomniachtchi failed to beat the world number-one with ...