Team Falcons, the winner of the 2024 Esports World Cup, has announced the signing of none other than world number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura. Meanwhile, Serbian esports organization Aurora Gaming also picked up the World Blitz Champion GM Ia...
In week four of the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL) the powerful University of Missouri—Columbia team showed why they're favorites to make it back to the league finals with a dominant victory against a prestigious Yale University t...
GMs Andrey Esipenko, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Wei Yi, Alexander Grischuk, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sam Sevian, and Anish Giri qualified for the 2025 Chessable Masters Playoffs. Wei qualified directly by winning the Swiss tournament, while the oth...
Ukrainian esports organization Natus Vincere (NAVI) has entered the competitive chess scene with a bang by snapping up star grandmasters Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk. Meanwhile, world number-nine GM Wei Yi has also been ...
Amidst a week of top chess players signing with esports organizations, GM Sam Sevian made a statement by winning Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 top prize, 24 hours after claiming his first Freestyle Friday victory. Sevian outs...
Global esports powerhouse Team Liquid has announced the signings of not just one, but two superstars of chess. Five-time World Champion and world number-one Magnus Carlsen and the 2018 challenger, world number-two Fabiano Caruana will represent th...
GM Sam Sevian won Freestyle Friday on February 14, scoring 9.5 points for an outright victory and becoming the first U.S. player to win a Freestyle Friday. There were 380 players in today's event, which began only hours after the conclusion of the...
GM Vincent Keymer won the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam after making a draw in his second classical game against GM Fabiano Caruana. Keymer neutralized the latter's tremendous effort with a pawn sacrifice in the opening. GM Magn...
In a surprising move, GM Hans Niemann has been given a wildcard for the next leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris, setting up a likely showdown against GM Magnus Carlsen.
The announcement was made in a press release shortly after ...
The Anichess Creator Challenge is a side event taking place alongside the Anichess x Chess.com Tournament, pitting content creators against each other on the Anichess platform.
The event will be played asynchronously from February 13 at 11 ...