GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won a sharp battle in round three of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix to knock GM Tan Zhongyi down to world number-four. The other win was a 5.5-hour marathon that saw GM Aleksandra Goryachkina return to 50 percent by...
GMs Vincent Keymer and Fabiano Caruana won two grueling matches and advance to the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Final. In the shorter match, Keymer ended GM Magnus Carlsen's hopes of earning the $200,000 first prize by drawing game ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Losers Final by holding a draw with the black pieces in the armageddon tiebreak. He has earned his second match against GM Magnus Carlsen in the 2025 Chessable Masters Grand Final on the las...
IM Sara Khadem pounced on a time-trouble blunder by GM Harika Dronavalli to pick up the only win of round two of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix. She joins GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Koneru Humpy, and IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul in the lead on...
World number-one GM Magnus Carlsen punched his ticket to the Grand Final of the 2025 Chessable Masters after drawing GM Arjun Erigaisi with Black in armageddon and beating GM Hikaru Nakamura 2.5-0.5 with a game to spare. Both Arjun and Nakamura wi...
You can now own a truly unique piece of chess history while also supporting a charitable cause. GM Magnus Carlsen recently announced the auction of the famous pair of jeans that led to his forfeit at the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Decem...
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the early Titled Tuesday on February 18 with a near-perfect score (the second straight week someone scored 10.5 points) and took the lead in the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix standings. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda then took the late...
GM Koneru Humpy defeated fellow Indian GM Harika Dronavalli and GM Kateryna Lagno took down GM Aleksandra Goryachkina in round one of the 2025 Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix. The day's other winner was IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul, who beat former Wome...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Hikaru Nakamura, and Alireza Firouzja are the players left in the Winners Bracket after day one of the 2025 Chessable Masters Playoffs. Firouzja's match against GM Fabiano Caruana was the longest and closest, on...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, and Javokhir Sindarov are through to the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Semifinals. Carlsen won for the second time against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, as did Caruana against World Ch...