There were three decisive games in round seven of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu beat GM Alireza Firouzja to join GM Fabiano Caruana in the lead on 4.5/7. GM Wesley So, in his first win of the tournament, beat World Champio...
GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firouzja looked to be on the verge of winning their games, respectively, against GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in round six of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup, but both ended in draws...
GM Alexander Grischuk displayed his famed blitz credentials, this time combining them with Freestyle chess abilities, winning the Freestyle Friday on August 22. He started with an amazing eight victories in the first eight rounds to capture the so...
A powerful performance by GM Daniel Naroditsky in Saturday's Bullet Brawl saw the 29-year-old join GM Hikaru Nakamura as the only player to win 30 titles in Chess.com's weekly titled arena.
In a field brimming with elite bullet chess exponents, ...
GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after, for the first time this year, a round of all draws. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda came closest to winning against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, finding a brilliant line but missing th...
Reigning Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated Women's number-one GM Hou Yifan with a combined score of 11.5-9.5 in the all-Chinese finals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship to claim the title for the second year in a row.
Hou h...
Five-time Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated IM Polina Shuvalova with a score of 17-5 in what turned out to be a one-sided semifinal of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. In the process, she beat her own WSCC record for the large...
GM Fabiano Caruana won a second game in a row, this time with Black against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to take the sole lead of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup with 3/4. All other games were drawn, leaving GM Levon Aronian and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu...
Chess will return to the global esports stage following the highly successful debut in 2025. The qualifying cycle for the 2026 Esports World Cup (EWC) will see major changes, making it bigger, better, and more competitive.
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Adult improvers, rejoice. More than 15 years since earning her first IM norm in 2010, and more than a decade after earning her third and final, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan played the "best tournament of my career" at the Budapest One Week in Hungary. She...