After his three wins in the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship so far in different endgames, GM Wesley So defeated one of his nearest pursuers, GM Andy Woodward, in a pawn endgame in the eighth round. He is now on six points and extends his sole…
GM Hikaru Nakamura extended the most dominant run in Bullet Brawl history on Saturday, cruising to a resounding 46-point victory with a score of 190 points. The American secured his sixth consecutive first-place finish and netted the $400 first pr...
A day after becoming the first 3500-rated Chess.com Blitz player in site history, GM Hikaru Nakamura upped his record to 3503 while streaming Titled Tuesday live from Sithonia, Greece, on October 6. Unfortunately for Nakamura, he did not ultimatel...
The top teams could rest the likes of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus while still scoring 6-0 clean sweeps in round one of the 41st European Chess Club Cup in Budva, Montenegro. GM Nils Grandelius was one of the few ...
GM Wesley So remained the only unbeaten player and sole leader of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship with five points when he fought back from a worse position to defeat GM Ray Robson in round seven. Among the joint leaders from the previous round, ...
Grandmasters, the documentary offering an inside look at GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and the struggle over chess's future, has reached movie theaters across the United States. The film screened at 92 AMC locations on October 11 an...
GM Sina Movahed won Freestyle Friday on October 16, riding a 7/7 start to sole first place on nine points. GM Haowen Xue finished second with 8.5/11, surpassing GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on tiebreaks. The win was Movahed's sixth in Freestyle Friday, t...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the first two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on October 15, the first player to win consecutive events since GM Jose Martinez did it in back-to-back weeks in March and April. Maghsoodloo tried to become the first player to ever...
The last two league champions, Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), are the two undefeated teams after two matches each in the 2026 fall season of the Collegiate Chess League. SLU has dominated both matches tha...
Both tournaments are wide open after six decisive games on Thursday. Four players lead the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship: GM Wesley So, GM Andy Woodward, GM Fabiano Caruana, and GM Awonder Liang. Caruana scored a bounce-back win against GM Sam Shan...