Bullet Brawl's most prolific winner, GM Hikaru Nakamura, has started 2026 with a hat trick of victories. In Saturday's event, GM Jose Martinez built a 21-point lead, but with just over 20 minutes to go, Nakamura bolted to the finish line, not only...
World Cup winner GM Javokhir Sindarov pulled off a 78-move great escape against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju to bring a dramatic first day of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters to a close. The first moves were delayed 1.5 hours by an evironmenta...
IM Levy Rozman confessed between games that "I think my biggest strength is somehow getting it done in time scrambles." His ability with seconds on the clock saved him from losing positions in three different rapid games. After the rapid portion o...
GM Ray Robson won his sixth title at the 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship after defeating GM Pranav Venkatesh 5-1 in the Grand Final. Earning another $1,500, Robson has won every edition of the event except for last year, when GM Andy Woodward ...
After a wild battle to start their match in game one, IMs Levy Rozman and Julien Song played a very accurate and calm draw in their second classical game. Rozman played one of his favorite openings, the Queen's Gambit Accepted, and quickly equaliz...
GMs Alexey Sarana and Denis Lazavik kept the ball rolling from last week's 3 0 Thursday victories and won the first and second tournaments outright on January 15. In the third event, GM Jeffery Xiong picked up his first victory after edging out GM...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won Freestyle Friday on January 16, grabbing his opportunity at a mate-in-two in the final round to take the tournament outright with 9.5 points. IM Renato Terry helped by beating the one player who had been tied with Nepomni...
The match between two of the most popular chess streamers in the world, IMs Levy Rozman and Julien Song, got off to a hard-fought start as both sides missed wins in time pressure before the game ended in a draw.
The players shook hands b...
Five-time Puzzles Champion GM Ray Robson was first to qualify for the eight-player Knockout Finals of the 2026 Chess.com Puzzles Championship, and posted the day's best score of 62. He was joined by GMs Pranav Venkatesh, Jeffery Xiong, and Mitrabh...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 2026 Freestyle Chess World Championship Play-in Knockout to earn $1,000 and qualify for the last available spot in the world championship. He beat GM Amin Tabatabaei 1.5-0.5 in the Semifinals and then GM Pranav Ven...