10-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan scored an incredible 12/13 to reach the Final of the 2026 Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship, but ultimately fell to her English rival FM Supratit Banerjee 3.5-1.5. Banerjee beat another 10-year-old, FM Ashwath...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the second Indian player, alongside GM Nihal Sarin, to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after a dominant performance on Saturday. A 12-game winning streak catapulted Arjun into first place, and he then sealed the $400 f...
FM Vasilios Kasioumis, who was the runner-up last year, returned to win it all in the 2026 Chess.com 3-Check Championship. This year's runner-up IM Toivo Keinanen did well to win the Grand Final 3-1, but he wasn't able to win the Reset. Kasioumis ...
With brand-new stakes introduced by the announcement of the Freestyle Friday Championship, the victory that GM Oleksandr Bortnyk earned in the February 20 edition of Freestyle Friday gave him a jumpstart toward potentially playing in the 2027 FIDE...
GM Fabiano Caruana followed up on his Titled Tuesday victory this week by becoming the first-ever winner of two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on the same day. He won the first tournament on tiebreaks over GM Matthias Bluebaum. He kept up his form by wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will have White against his U.S. rival GM Hikaru Nakamura when the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament begins in five weeks on March 29. The other first-round pairings are GMs Javokhir Sindarov vs. Andrey Esipenko, Matthias Bluebaum...
GM Jan Timman, a former world number-two, multiple world championship candidate, nine-time Dutch national champion, prolific author, honorary editor of New in Chess magazine, and endgame studies specialist, passed away on Wednesday after battling ...
Chess.com and Freestyle Chess are proud to launch the Freestyle Friday Championship, a brand-new, season-long race that will award a direct spot in the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship and in the 2027 FIDE Women's Freestyle Chess World...
You can now get coached by two of India's most recognized chess personalities, GM Viswanathan Anand and IM Tania Sachdev! Pick them as your coach and enjoy their voices and commentary every time you use Game Review, solve puzzles, and more!
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On February 14, 15-year-old American GM Andy Woodward broke the Chess.com bullet rating record, previously held by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura set the previous record of 3570 on November 11, 2020, meaning that it stood for more than five years. W...