With summer now in full swing (in the northern hemisphere), the July 1 Titled Tuesday events were both heated competitions, each ending in a three-way tie. After tiebreaks, GM Pranav Venkatesh and GM Parham Maghsoodloo emerged as the victors. GM P...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, on the way to winning the 2025 UzChess Cup, has gained 12 points to rise to world number-four and Indian number-one. At Norway Chess 2025 earlier in the month, GM Fabiano Caruana gained seven points to jump back to wo...
The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has upheld the US Chess Federation's one-year suspension of GM Christopher Yoo, and extended it to a global level, barring him from all FIDE-rated events until November. In addition, the 18-year-...
GM Hikaru Nakamura cruised to victory in Saturday's Bullet Brawl, posting a score of 184 to finish 40 points ahead of IM Renato Terry and a further two ahead of GM Eric Hansen. The win, which earned Nakamura $400, brought up 42 career titles, eigh...
GM Alireza Firouzja defended his title as the bullet chess champion by defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 19.5-5.5 in the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship Grand Final. It was a dominant showing, as the French number-one won every match by a margin of 10...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is Indian number-one and world number-four after a stunning comeback saw him beat GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the final rounds before winning the 2025 UzChess Cup Masters in tiebreaks over GM Javokh...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on June 27 with a perfect 11/11 score, matching the feat accomplished three weeks ago by GM Jeffery Xiong. In the 23rd Freestyle Friday held so far, Nakamura earned his fourth victory, breaking a tie with GM...
Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by double digits, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5.
There are three players in the Lo...
India's latest chess sensation, CM Aarit Kapil, is only nine years old. This week, he came within inches of defeating none other than world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday. The game ended in a dramatic draw, but the perf...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky will meet in the Winners Final of the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. Firouzja was a runaway train against GM Nihal Sarin, winning 17.5-6.5, while it took Naroditsky 32 games, with tiebreaks, to defeat GM...