The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup wasn't the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107…
GM Magnus Carlsen struggled on the final day but still won the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare and a 2.5-point margin. GM Wesley So took second place after winning a crazy game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the fin...
Nine-year-old CM Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore has added another milestone to his young chess career by sensationally scoring his first international master (IM) norm at the 10th Marina Viva Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. Ashwath is just the ...
24 hours after winning his fifth Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Chess.com's servers to capture his 43rd Bullet Brawl title in a commanding fashion. Nakamura and GM Andrew Tang broke away from the 135-strong field on Saturday, how...
GM Magnus Carlsen started day four of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz trailing World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by four points but ended the day two points ahead after scoring 7.5/9 while Gukesh crashed to 1.5/9. GM Jan-Krzysztof Dud...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju increased his lead over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to three points and kept a four-point gap to GM Magnus Carlsen as he made two draws and scored a dominant win over GM Wesley So to score 14/18 in the rapid section ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to win five Freestyle Friday on July 4 after scoring an undefeated 10/11, following his first perfect run in last week's edition. Nakamura has now gone 29 games without a loss in Freestyle Fridays, with h...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju has done it again, beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen from a losing position to take the sole lead in the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz. "Now we can question Magnus' domination," said 13th World Ch...
Armenian chess is in mourning following the passing of GM Tigran Nalbandian, a beloved coach and player who played a central role in the rise of chess in his nation over the last two decades.
Nalbandian died of a heart attack last week in ...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and world number-one Magnus Carlsen will meet again on day two of the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz after ending day one tied for the lead on 4/6 together with GMs Wesley So and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Guke...