Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi shared a chess-themed ad for ChatGPT with his 517 million Instagram followers on Wednesday, in a post that is bound to generate massive interest.
The world's second-most followed person on Instagram, behind only...
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It's the GM Wesley So show at the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship as the three-time winner coasts to the final round with a full-point lead on GMs Fabiano Caruana and Grigoriy Oparin. He made a quick draw with GM Hans Niemann to maintain that lead,…
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus all lost in round four of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, falling to GMs Aydin Suleymanli, Pranav Venkatesh, and Karthikeyan Murali respectively. While Abdusattorov was rescued by hi...
IM Levy Rozman has another New York Times bestseller. His new book, How to Win at Chess, Next Level, has reached the prestigious list, while his two How to Win at Chess titles currently rank in the top two spots on Amazon’s bestselling chess...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won a dramatic Titled Tuesday on October 20, taking down GM Alireza Firouzja in the final round to win the event with 9.5/11. Nakamura also needed tiebreaks to beat out GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Sina Movahed, who finished in seco...
GM Wesley So held onto his full-point lead in round nine of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship by fending off defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana. There were five draws and just one decisive game, where GM Grigoriy Oparin defeated GM Sam Shankland...
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the highest-rated 15-year-old of all time, is now world number-15 on the live rating list after winning a time-trouble battle on his 2026 European Chess Club Cup debut. GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Anish Giri also won thei...
The favorites continued to cruise in round two of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, with GMs Wei Yi, Arjun Erigaisi, and Richard Rapport among the stars to move to 2/2. Top seed Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club again rested GMs Anish Giri and Yagi...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Tuan Minh Le fended off prodigies and numerous 3000+ rated opponents to win October 8's 3 0 Thursday tournaments outright.
Duda dominated the 215-player-strong first tournament and came close to...