GM Magnus Carlsen won his sixth world rapid championship title after winning the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship a full point ahead of the field with 10.5/13. It's his 19th world championship title across three time controls and he e...
German candidate and GM Matthias Bluebaum has etched his name into the annals of Bullet Brawl history after surging at the tail end of Saturday's event to win his maiden title.
Bluebaum kept in contention for the $400 first prize with a nine-gam...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Hans Niemann lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after day two with 7.5 points out of nine games. A half-point behind are four players: GM Magnus Carlsen, who bounced back from losing against Artemiev in ro...
GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac profited the most from the absence of top GMs as he won the post-Christmas Freestyle Friday and its $400 first prize. The 24-year-old Romanian grandmaster edged out IM Eray Kilic and GM Jeffery Xiong on tiebreaks after all th...
GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac profited the most from the absence of top GMs as he won the post-Christmas Freestyle Friday and its $400 first prize. The 24-year-old Romanian grandmaster edged out IM Eray Kilic and GM Jeffery Xiong on tiebreaks after all th...
Twelve-year-old Argentinian chess prodigy IM Faustino Oro is one step closer to making history by becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster. On Tuesday, he scored another fantastic performance and achieved his second norm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Vladislav Artemiev lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with 4.5 points out of five games on the first day. The group of 15 players that trails them by ...
On January 1, we will make some notable changes to vacation time for in Daily Chess, reducing the amount of vacation time available and simplifying the system.
Vacation time is an important part of daily games on Chess.com. It allows players to ...
GM Magnus Carlsen says he enters the World Rapid & Blitz Championship with motivation and a determination to "give it my all" after several months of doubts over whether he would even take part in the events at all.
The first day of the 2025...
GM Fabiano Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers have won the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025 with a 2-0 sweep in the Final, where GM Anish Giri and Leon Luke Mendonca starred with 2/2. GM Alireza Firouzja at times fought a lone battle as the Triveni…