A single win in their rapid game on Wednesday was enough for GM Fabiano Caruana to take the lead from GM Wesley So at the Champions Showdown: The Kings in St. Louis. In this event, where money prizes are connected to single-game results, Caruana h...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won a golden game with Black against GM Anish Giri to take the sole lead in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters after round seven. GM Ediz Gurel won his first game in the event against GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen with…
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
Can chess continue its meteoric rise? How will the game evolve in the esports landscape? And what role does sports analytics play in shaping competitive chess strategies? These key questions will be discussed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf...
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11.…
GM Wesley So had the best start on day one of the 2025 Champions Showdown: The Kings, a three-day exhibition event in St. Louis, Missouri, held just ahead of the American Cup. Six American grandmasters play rapid, blitz, and semi-classical chess f...
After draws on all boards in round six, GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Aravindh Chithambaram stay in the lead by a point in the 2025 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Ediz Gurel came closest to achieving a decisive game when with Black he outpl...
GM Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess who defeated “Iron” GM Tigran Petrosian in 1969 to reach the chess Olympus and who lost his title to GM Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik, died on Thursday...
The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 continues with the second stop in Paris on April 7-14. It's a remarkably star-studded field that will feature twelve of the world's best players, with 11 now confirmed. The final spot will be determined thr...
Most people don't associate the sport of disc golf with chess, but many of us are fans of both sports. The Discraft Supreme Flight Open (Presented by Florida's Adventure Coast) ran Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 2 at the Olympus Disc Go...