GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Andrew Tang, and Arjun Erigaisi won both matches on day one of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship to advance in the Winners Bracket. The Losers Bracket is full with 12 players, with the first round of elimination...
Two months after his incredible Candidates victory, GM Javokhir Sindarov says his life has changed surprisingly little. But the 20-year-old Uzbek star revealed that his approach to chess changed dramatically over the last year.
In an interview wi...
GM Jules Moussard became the latest first-time Titled Tuesday winner on June 23, taking home the tournament by a full point on a 10/11 score. Moussard is the third player to join the ranks of first-time Titled Tuesday victors in 2026, joining GMs ...
Chess will once again be a part of the world's biggest esports festival, with GM Magnus Carlsen returning to defend his title. The Esports World Cup Chess Finals will take place from August 11 to 15 with a new home in Paris, France, and feature…
GM Andy Woodward fought back valiantly to defeat GM Andrew Tang in the Grand Final Reset to deny him the title for the third year in a row in the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship 2026, which concluded on Friday, June 19. After losing to Tang in…
A Magnus Carlsen game from 2010 and his famous queen sacrifice from the 2016 World Championship match helped shape the central chess battle in The Nation's Gambit, a new Norwegian political thriller, in which every captured piece costs a human lif...
"It's like a dream!" said Dragon Chilling captain GM Ni Hua as the Chinese team added 2026 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship gold medals to their earlier victory in rapid chess. The team, led by GM Ding Liren, beat GM Hans Niemann's Endgame....
GM Hikaru Nakamura's perfect record in Bullet Brawl in 2026 has finally come to an end courtesy of an exceptional performance by the 17-year-old GM Ediz Gurel. Gurel recorded one of the all-time greatest starts with 17 consecutive wins and clinche...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back from four losses in a row to win his first eight blitz games and wasn't even the highest scorer as WR Chess cruised to victory in Pool A and then eased through to the Quarterfinals of the FIDE World Blitz…
IM Renato Terry, GM Matthias Bluebaum, and IM Reza Mahdavi were the deserving winners of the hard fought 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 18. The all-time leaderboard pacesetter Terry had to overcome the five-time world champion GM Magnus Carlsen ...