Emirati GM Salem Saleh won with a brilliant and sacrificial combination, in a heated Najdorf battle against Japanese IM Thanh Tu Tran, to earn our Game of the day distinction. The favorites mostly prevailed in round one, game one of the 2025 FIDE ...
On a Halloween edition of Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a victory on October 31 after missing the past few tournaments with prior engagements. Nakamura was 1.5 points behind the lead after five rounds, but with the tenacity akin...
A key match in the fourth week of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) saw the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) cement their place atop the league with a dominant 12-4 victory over the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
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GM Fabiano Caruana won an incredibly close match against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals, where he will face GM Magnus Carlsen. Only the bullet segment separated the two players, with Caruana b...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at one point led by 10 points before finishing with a 17.5-10.5 score against GM Anish Giri to cruise into the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Nepomniachtchi called it, "some really good training in the Catalan w...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with two games to spare. He defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju two times, and then beat GM Fabiano Caruana twice, to win the event and earn $120,000, all before his final match ...
In a new study, researchers at Google DeepMind have created an AI system capable of generating creative chess puzzles, some of which impressed experts in chess compositions.
The 75-page study titled "Generative Chess Puzzles," was led by Google'...
The reigning champions of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL), Saint Louis University (SLU), have a difficult path to defending their title. They have lost a match already, and have not yet played the other finalist from last season, the Univer...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown after day two. The world number-one won both games in both matches against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, so that he was still in first even with two losses...
The field for the legendary 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters was unveiled today, featuring an exciting young line-up headlined by the reigning World Champion, 19-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju. At the other end of the spectrum is 31-year-old GM Anish Giri...