GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top-15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
Esports organizations are making a final push to add grandmasters to their teams for the second and last leg of this year's Champions Chess Tour (CCT). GMs Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are among the six top grandmasters wh...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reached an unprecedented 40 Bullet Brawl titles after claiming first place in Saturday's two-hour arena with a commanding score of 288. He notched 76/80 games to win the $400 first prize ahead of the second-place finish...
GM Guha Mitrabha was crowned the Chess.com King of the Hill champion on Friday after winning the latest edition of the Community Chess Championships. Following a 12-hour qualification marathon where he competed alongside 3500 aspirants, Mitrabha c...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, his first Grand Chess Tour victory. He earns $77,667 and 10 GCT points.
The path was far from smooth. He drew comfortably against GM Levon Aronian in his last classi...
Aerial Powers, WNBA Champion and co-owner of Team Liquid (who will be represented at the Esports World Cup this summer by GMs Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana), appeared with FM James Canty III and others at the Center of Science and Industry (C...
GM Anna Muzychuk has won the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks over GM Zhu Jiner, but said afterward, "it has never been so sad to win an event." Anna made a draw against GM Vaishali Rameshbabu which would have given her ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu broke into the sole lead just before the final round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025. He defeated GM Wesley So from the black side of a Benko Gambit. There was one more decisive result: World Champion Gukesh...
GM Christopher Yoo won the May 9 Freestyle Friday, scoring 10.5 points and securing outright victory with a round to spare. Only a draw in round five against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi kept Yoo from the first perfect 11/11 score in tournament history. ...
Draws for the leading trio of GMs Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner, and Tan Zhongyi in the penultimate round of the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix left the standings unchanged, but mean Zhu has booked a FIDE Candidates spot, while Tan miss...