The third leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will take place in Las Vegas from July 16 to 20, the German organizers revealed on Tuesday. The venue for the tour's U.S. debut this summer offers fans the opportunity to follow the star-st...
Get ready for tricks, swindles, and high levels of adrenaline. The Chess.com Hyperbullet Chess Championship is coming up, starting June 12! Get ready to prove you're the fastest "pawnslinger" on Chess.com.
The event is the sixth installmen...
With wins in their round-seven classical games, GM Fabiano Caruana has taken pole position while World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju follows a point behind. Caruana defeated GM Wei Yi on the latter's 26th birthday, squeezing water from stone in a pawn...
GM Magnus Carlsen seemed to be on his way to extending his lead in Norway Chess 2025 by another three points with a second win against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. In a losing endgame, however, the 19-year-old GM pounced on a blunder and turne...
Newly minted IM Reza Mahdavi became the 13th player and the second IM to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after outclassing 175 titled players in Saturday's event. Mahdavi posted a scorching 62.5/73, which earned him a final score of 221 and sa...
Round five of Norway Chess 2025 featured three classical draws followed by three armageddon wins. GM Magnus Carlsen won the armageddon game with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana to extend his lead. GM Hikaru Nakamura had winning chances in both th...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk took home his third Freestyle Friday on May 30, tying him with GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Arjun Erigaisi for the most so far, and he did it with a last-minute comeback. Bortnyk scored 9.5/11, passing GM Leon Luke Mendonca in the ...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss portion of the 2025 Chess.com Classic Play-in with 7.5/9 to qualify directly for the Playoffs. After finishing in the top 15 of the Swiss, seven other players won in Match Play to advance as well: GMs Denis Lazav...
For the first time since its original run in 1988, the cult musical Chess will get its long-awaited Broadway return in New York City this fall. The production will star Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele, Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Ch...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a smooth win over GM Arjun Erigaisi in round four of Norway Chess 2025 to take the sole lead after GM Fabiano Caruana missed a classical win over GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The relieved world champion stormed to an armageddon wi...