A last-round win by GM Fabiano Caruana over GM Wesley So, who had been leading, left five players in the lead after three rounds at the 2026 Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event on the 2026 Grand Chess Tour. Besides Caruana and So,...
GM Jorden van Foreest is the first player to beat GM Magnus Carlsen in classical chess since GM Gukesh Dommaraju's famous win in Norway Chess 2025. Carlsen looked set to escape a tough game intact but finally fell in a nail-biting endgame, while G...
GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and Arjun Erigaisi picked up their first wins of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to reach a five-way tie for the lead with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Andy Woodward. Erdogmus is up to 2711.9 and wo...
For the first time since January, GM Hikaru Nakamura took part in and won an edition of Bullet Brawl, keeping his 100% win rate in 2026 intact. The Bullet Brawl king scored 52.5/65 for a total of 172 points, 20 points more than the second-placed…
"That was a fun game, for sure!" said GM Magnus Carlsen after risking the Benoni to beat GM Nils Grandelius and join the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament leaders after round two. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov let a winning position slip three times a...
Head Coach GM Liem Le announced on April 30 that the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University is discontinued. It has been one of the most powerful collegiate chess programs in the United States for over a decade, ...
World number-four Nodirbek Abdusattorov and 15-year-old rising star GM Andy Woodward took the early lead in Malmo as the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament began. They both pounced on game-deciding blunders, with Abdusattorov beating GM Zhu Jiner ...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Oleksandr Bortnyk and IM Renato Terry all continued their recent strong blitz form with wins in 3 0 Thursday tournaments on April 30. For Duda, winning the first event was a nice complement to his victory in Titled Tuesday ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won Freestyle Friday in a comeback on May 1, winning in the final round to scratch out a win on tiebreaks over GM Jose Martinez. The feat marks the second time Duda has won both Titled Tuesday and Freestyle Friday in the...
If 2024 was the golden year for India, with double gold in the Olympiad and GM Gukesh Dommaraju crowned world champion, 2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for Uzbekistan so far. The nation's number-one GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has already been...