GM Oleksandr Bortnyk entered the Bullet Brawl ring and emerged victorious for the second week in a row on Saturday after storming home and posting a score of 161 points, pocketing the $400 first prize for the 16th time.
In second place was GM Ar...
GM Pranav Venkatesh won his first Freestyle Friday of the new Freestyle Friday Championship on March 13, taking it outright with 9.5/11, as four different players have now won the first four tournaments of the new stakes (qualification for the 202...
Netflix has released the teaser for its upcoming documentary Untold: Chessmates, sparking widespread reactions across the chess world less than a month before its full release.
The 71-second clip, released on March 10, gives a first preview of t...
IM Renato Terry won a 3 0 Thursday tournament for the third week in a row, setting a new record with nine victories in the event. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk joined him, winning his third title, as did GM Benjamin Bok, winning for the first time.…
Chess.com returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last weekend, hosting a packed program that explored chess, AI, and the intersection of mental and physical performance.
The annual gathering of leading sports executives,...
IM Alice Lee is once again the champion of The Women's American Cup 2026 for the third year in a row. IM Carissa Yip won the first Grand Final match on Wednesday, but in the Grand Final Reset, Lee won the first rapid game and…
GM Wesley So won his maiden title in The American Cup 2026 on Wednesday. After winning the first game against GM Levon Aronian, he held the necessary draw in game two to secure the match. He makes $75,000 plus another $15,000 bonus for winning the...
GM Wesley So has taken the lead in his match against GM Levon Aronian in The American Cup 2026 Grand Final. It was an Italian Opening gone wrong for the Armenian-American, and So won a remarkably smooth game. Aronian must win the next game on...
The University Of Texas At Dallas (UTD) was the top team in the Fall 2025 regular season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). However, in the playoffs, they fell just short, losing to St. Louis University (SLU) in the finals, 8.5-7.5. In the spri...
Eleven-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan has added another milestone to her rapidly growing chess career, surpassing the 2300 rating barrier for the first time to secure the FM title. The British prodigy is now higher-rated at the same age as GM Jud...