Out of 78 matches in round one of the 2025 FIDE World Cup, 20 will go to rapid and blitz tiebreaks on Monday. The upset of the day was IM Shixu Wang's (2402) match win against GM Leon Mendonca (2620). There were just two other cases…
An inspired GM Andrew Tang posted a 27-game unbeaten streak during Saturday's Bullet Brawl and surged to a 14th career victory ahead of the 48-time winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura.
Tang chalked up 51 wins, four draws, and 11 losses in the two-hour ar...
GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth,…
Emirati GM Salem Saleh won with a brilliant and sacrificial combination, in a heated Najdorf battle against Japanese IM Thanh Tu Tran, to earn our Game of the day distinction. The favorites mostly prevailed in round one, game one of the 2025 FIDE ...
On a Halloween edition of Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a victory on October 31 after missing the past few tournaments with prior engagements. Nakamura was 1.5 points behind the lead after five rounds, but with the tenacity akin...
A key match in the fourth week of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) saw the University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) cement their place atop the league with a dominant 12-4 victory over the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
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GM Fabiano Caruana won an incredibly close match against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to reach the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals, where he will face GM Magnus Carlsen. Only the bullet segment separated the two players, with Caruana b...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at one point led by 10 points before finishing with a 17.5-10.5 score against GM Anish Giri to cruise into the Speed Chess Championship 2025 Quarterfinals. Nepomniachtchi called it, "some really good training in the Catalan w...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with two games to spare. He defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju two times, and then beat GM Fabiano Caruana twice, to win the event and earn $120,000, all before his final match ...
In a new study, researchers at Google DeepMind have created an AI system capable of generating creative chess puzzles, some of which impressed experts in chess compositions.
The 75-page study titled "Generative Chess Puzzles," was led by Google'...