IM Song Yuxin has joined fellow 19-year-olds IM Meruert Kamalidenova and IM Umida Omonova in round four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after knocking out GM Anna Muzychuk in round-three tiebreaks. In the six tiebreak matches only one play...
We’re excited to announce that you can now play chess against Steve Aoki’s very own bot on Chess.com! Put on your favorite Steve Aoki track, turn up the volume, and get ready for a high-energy chess match with one of music's most dynam...
GMs Kateryna Lagno and Valentina Gunina struck back against IM Vantika Agrawal and GM Nana Dzagnidze to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round three matches to tiebreaks. Four more matches will be decided Monday, while 10 players are through...
Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child.
While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child.
The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared...
NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani dominated the 2025 Chess.com Community Bughouse Championship, although they didn't have the highest FIDE ratings in the field. They won two matches decisively against the second-place team of FM Richard Zheng an...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...