World number-one Magnus Carlsen scored 3/3 for Offerspill on the final weekend of the Norwegian Team Chess Championship. His wins over GM Simen Agdestein and IMs Kristian Stuvik Holm and Alparslan Isik saw him gain 4.1 rating points to climb ...
17-year-old WFM Eman Sawan from Palestine has emerged as one of the brightest stars in a region with limited support and traditions for chess. Her story has ignited a wave of support from the chess community with over 70 donors backing her dream t...
GM Andrew Tang joined GM Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as one of three players to win three Bullet Brawls in 2025 after posting a 29-game streak in Saturday's event. Tang scored 70 wins, one draw, and eight losses and scored 258 points, ah...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram continue to share the lead by a full point after their draw in round five of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Wei Yi reached a 50-percent score after winning the only decisive game,...
18-year-old Indian GM Pranav Venkatesh dominated the FIDE World Junior Championship 2025 to be crowned champion ahead of 11 other grandmasters on Friday. 16-year-old WIM Anna Shukhman took the Girls title a full point clear of the field.
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GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters with a draw in the last round against GM Ediz Gurel. Having previously won the 2024 Chennai Grand Masters, the 25-year-old "late bloomer" has won the only two super-tournaments he...
Freestyle Friday is still a relatively new event, with its seventh-ever rendition being held on March 7. In it, GM Arjun Erigaisi set two firsts: he became the first player to win any two Freestyle Fridays and the first player to win two in a…
GM Fabiano Caruana won the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis convincingly after a strong final day when he beat GM Ray Robson twice. Caruana scored 6.5/9 and pocketed $51,625 for his three-day workweek.
GM Wesley So, who won his blitz g...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram leads by a half-point going into the last round of the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. He had a minor chance to extend his lead after GM David Navara made an early mistake, but the players reached a quick draw. GM Prag...
The second Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event is scheduled to take place in Paris between April 7 and 14. As part of our announced partnership with Freestyle Chess, we offer a qualification path for each event to any of our members. The Qualifi...