GM Yasser Seirawan described Crazyhouse as "one-person Bughouse," so it was fitting that NM Isaac Chiu, one half of the 2025 Bughouse Championship winning team, also triumphed in the 2025 Crazyhouse Championship. Chiu won the Winners Final 3-1 aga...
Thirty-two players remain in contention to win the 2025 FIDE World Cup ahead of round four. The following players advanced after winning round-three tiebreaks on Sunday: GMs Wei Yi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Yu Yangyi, Sam Shankland...
Following his round two exit at 2025 FIDE World Cup, GM Ediz Gurel put on a tactical exhibition to capture his sixth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Gurel's final score of 157 saw him edge out GM Tuan Minh Le…
Upsets continue to stream in at a staggering rate in round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Several 2700+ grandmasters were eliminated after the second classical game:
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju eliminated by Frederik Svane
GM Ani...
GM Magnus Carlsen may have been the favorite before the games started, but GM Oleksandr Bortnyk convincingly won his fifth Freestyle Friday tournament 9.5/11, a full point ahead of the former world champion and GM Dmitry Andreikin. With 83 partici...
IM Levy Rozman stunned more than 200,000 of his opponents and "did the meme" in GothamChess vs. the World on November 7 by sacrificing his rook on the game's 21st move. After the world attacked Gotham's rook with a pawn, the internet chess st...
GM Jose Martinez (2644) scored the upset of the day in game one of round three in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. His opponent, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2750), played a creative and strong exchange sacrifice to achieve a large advantage, but the Mexican...
There are 64 players heading into round three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup after round two tiebreaks, where another 27 players were eliminated on Thursday. The upset of the day was GM Lorenzo Lodici's (2572) match win against GM Hans Niemann (2729)....
The second edition of the new, monthly version of Arena Kings happened on November 5. In this month's multi-club arena with more than 1,800 total players representing 52 squads, K2N Chess won the overall standings, while GM Jose Ibarra took home t...
We're excited to announce that you can now get tickets to watch the Speed Chess Championship Live Finals in London. Experience the thrill that only the SCC can provide, and join the roaring crowd cheering for their heroes as they battle in high-sp...