Eight out of 12 games were decisive on Wednesday, making it the bloodiest round across both tournaments in this year's 2026 U.S. Chess Championships. GM Andy Woodward took down defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana to join GM Wesley So in the lead...
IM Roman Shogdzhiev took a major step toward becoming the youngest grandmaster in chess history on Monday, scoring his second GM norm in the Serbian Super League. The 11-year-old is now one norm and 29 rating points away from breaking GM Abhimanyu...
The 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov says security services in the U.S. warned him and a fellow Russian opposition figure that their lives were in danger and that they should take precautions. His statement comes one day after a report by ...
GM Fabiano Caruana won Titled Tuesday on October 13 during an off day in the 2026 U.S. Championship—where he currently shares the tournament lead—defeating GM Nihal Sarin in a key 10th-round matchup. Caruana then only made a draw in th...
It was a day of endgames in round four of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship, with GM Fabiano Caruana scoring a long grinding win over GM Ray Robson to join GM Wesley So in the lead on three points. In other games, GMs Jeffery Xiong,…
GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang continued as joint leaders with 2.5 points after their mutual encounter ended in a draw in the third round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship. GM Andy Woodward was rewarded with a win for his dynamic play against G...
GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang won again in round two of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship to lead with 2/2 perfect scores. So was much worse against GM Jeffery Xiong but turned it around, while Liang converted an endgame to give GM Sam Sevian…
History was made in the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday as GM Hikaru Nakamura acquired his fifth straight title, eclipsing a record set and shared by the late GM Daniel Naroditsky and himself back in 2023.
Nakamura made his biggest move in the sec...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo took a step closer to qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship by taking out the latest edition of Freestyle Friday. Maghsoodloo scored 9/11 en route to victory, suffering only a single loss to one of U...
Three-time national champion GM Wesley So celebrated his 33rd birthday with a win over GM Sam Shankland in the first round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship, which started in St. Louis on Friday. GMs Jeffery Xiong and Awonder Liang were the othe...