All five games were decisive in round one of the Cairns Cup 2025. In the lead are GM Koneru Humpy, GM Harika Dronavalli, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, GM-elect Bibisara Assaubayeva, and IM Alice Lee (they won, respectively, against GM Nana Dzagnidze, GM ...
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Fifteen-year-old GM Andy Woodward won the 2025 Under 16 ChessKid Youth Championship after beating 14-year-old GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus in the Final. It was payback against last year's winner, who eliminated Woodward in the 2024 Semifinals. Woodward ...
Get ready for one of Chess.com's most intense and dramatic events! The 2025 Bullet Chess Championship (BCC) kicks off this June and will feature a $50,000 prize fund and some of the most dangerous bullet specialists in the world.
The event bring...
GM Magnus Carlsen’s seventh Norway Chess win was one of his most memorable yet, partly for the dramatic finale but mainly for the rivalry with World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Carlsen won their round-one clash, but in round six Gukesh beat h...
GM Hikaru Nakamura prevailed in a showdown with world number-seven GM Alireza Firouzja during Saturday's Bullet Brawl, earning himself the $400 first prize and his 41st title. Nakamura scored 70 wins, four losses, and a string of draws at the tail...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's fast rise to the highest echelons in chess continued last week in Jermuk, Armenia, where the 25-year-old Indian grandmaster edged out GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on tiebreaks to win the Stepan Avagyan Memorial. Aravindh...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his seventh Norway Chess title after escaping and then almost winning a lost position against GM Arjun Erigaisi in the final round. With seconds to spare, he took a draw, which seemed to guarantee the title as GM Fabiano ...
The perfect 11/11 score doesn't exis—well, it's only happened seven times in hundreds of Titled Tuesdays over several years, but in just a few months' time, Freestyle Friday has its first 11/11 performance in the record books. The mark belon...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen leads World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by half a point going into the final round of Norway Chess 2025 after both stars won their classical games in round nine. Carlsen sacrificed a pawn against GM Fabiano Caruana bu...