A Dutch teenager has been given a three-year ban, with one year suspended, by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) after he was caught with a mobile phone hidden in his sock during a tournament in the Netherlands last year.
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GM Fabiano Caruana scored a crushing win over GM Grigoriy Oparin in round one of the 2025 U.S. Chess Championships as he began his campaign to become the first player since GM Bobby Fischer to claim four titles in a row. GM Levon Aronian grabbed…
The former world junior champion and GM Jeffery Xiong rocketed to his first Bullet Brawl title on Saturday ahead of 148 other titled players after playing the unorthodox Orangutan Opening in most of his games with White.
Xiong accrued a total sc...
Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov dominated to win 2025 Clutch Chess: The Legends with two games to spare, 30 years to the day after clinching victory over GM Viswanathan Anand in the 1995 World Chess Championship match. Anand hadn't won a ...
Vtom, coached by NM Robert Ramirez, won the u2000 round-robin in CoachChamps 2025 with a round to spare and a final score of 6/7. He went on a perfect run of 6/6, only losing his last game after already clinching the tournament and victory for…
GM Arjun Erigaisi, who won three straight Freestyle Fridays in February and March, finally got back in the win column in the tournament on October 10 for his long-awaited fourth victory. The undefeated Arjun's 9.5 points were enough to win outrigh...
Rejoice, daily chess fans: The 2026 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship (DCC) is now open for registration! It will soon be that time again for one of the biggest events of the Chess.com calendar. But even if you've never played daily chess before,...
The Ukrainian Open Team and the Polish Women's team lead the 2025 European Team Championships after round five of the nine-round event. The tournament is a semi-annual competition between European nations and a good test for countries to test line...
GM Viswanathan Anand had over a minute on his clock in a winning position but lost on time to GM Garry Kasparov as day two of the 2025 Clutch Chess Legends got off to the worst possible start for the Indian legend. Kasparov went on to…
KiriyamaKazuo, coached by IM David Pruess, won the u1600 tournament of CoachChamps 2025 with 6/7. With only one loss in round four, against frank, coached by WGM Dina Belenkaya, he otherwise kept control throughout the entire event.
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