Two weeks after winning his first Bullet Brawl title in 2025, GM Andrew Tang triumphed in Saturday's event with a score of 227, scooping up the $400 first prize in the process. 16-year-old GM Ediz Gurel finished in second place on 218 points ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Javokhir Sindarov in the final round to win the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Round-Robin and get first pick of an opponent for Sunday's Quarterfinals. Big guns GMs Magnus Carlsen (who beat World Champion ...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov lead the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam on 4.5/5 on a day when both took down GM Magnus Carlsen. The defending champion also lost to GM Vladimir Fedoseev, but scored two wins to join the likes...
GM Magnus Carlsen rules out any cooperation with FIDE and its current administration but insists he is not trying to take down classical chess with his new Freestyle Chess project.
The $750,000 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus will start w...
IM Justus Williams won Chess.com's inaugural 2025 NextGen Cup, an online round-robin tournament inviting 10 of the most talented players of the African diaspora. Finishing with 7.5 points after nine rounds, he won an exhilarating armageddon playof...
Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...
Two of the chess world's hottest young stars, GMs Volodar Murzin and Arjun Erigaisi, have become two of the first players to sign with major Esports organizations ahead of the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC).
Chess will make its historic debut at t...
On February 4, GM Liem Le became the fourth player ever, and the first of 2025, to post a perfect 11/11 score in Titled Tuesday. He joins GMs Hikaru Nakamura (twice), Magnus Carlsen (twice), and Jose Martinez in accomplishing the feat. GM Ale...
The finish to the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters was extraordinary, with both leaders World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu losing their final classical games. When GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov failed to win, that meant a two...