IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008.
The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his 2026 Bullet Brawl victory streak with a barnstorming performance in Saturday's event, racing to a 201-point victory with no rivals in sight. The American superstar finished a commanding 58 points ahead of Ukrainian...
On June 5, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the first player to win nine Freestyle Fridays and to win three in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship. A fast 9/9 start was enough to hang on to outright victory through an 0.5/2 finish as Bortnyk returns...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the Norway Chess 2026 champion after grinding out a win over GM Vincent Keymer to complete an amazing run of four classical wins to end the tournament. GM Wesley So beat GM Alireza Firouzja in armageddon, and he wou...
GM Denis Lazavik, who won Titled Tuesday this week with a dominant 10/11 score, repeated the performance in the first 3 0 Thursday tournament on June 4, scoring another 10 points to take clear first place. The second and third tournaments of the d...
GM Wesley So continues to lead Norway Chess 2026 after round nine, but that lead has thinned to a half-point over GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. So drew GM Magnus Carlsen and then won the critical extra half-point in armageddon, while Praggnanandha...
The Esports World Cup qualifiers may have already been decided, but there was still much to play for in Titled Tuesday on June 2, with a new prize fund of $10,000. The new prizes attracted a field of more than 500 players for the first…
Round eight of Norway Chess 2026 will go down as one of the most shocking, with two decisive classical games. GM Wesley So leads after making the only draw against GM Vincent Keymer and then winning in armageddon, but we saw world number-one GM&nb...
The qualitative trading firm Jane Street won the North American Corporate Chess League's 13th season on May 28, winning three rounds of playoff matches, including an exciting final against JPMorgan Chase. The NACCL is the largest corporate chess c...
Calling all speed addicts! The world's fastest players will meet again to battle in the next edition of the Bullet Chess Championship starting June 22. With a $50,000 prize fund and the most dangerous bullet players in the world, drama is all but ...