WFM Anna Cramling blundered a piece against 12-year-old Zac Chua from Canada and didn't realize until three moves later, but she shrugged off that slip-up to win the 6th episode of Kids vs. Stars 2.5-1.5. "I would rather go skydiving!" she said of...
In the spring season of the Collegiate Chess League, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) lost to St. Louis University (SLU) in the Finals, to finish in second place. This year they are looking for more and are off to a good start, winning their fi...
It's now less than a month until the $2 million 2025 FIDE World Cup begins on November 1, with a 206-player field topped by the Indian trio of World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. The event will tak...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) will discuss the possible reinstatement of Russian national teams at its General Assembly meeting in December, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has confirmed.
A proposal will be on the agenda for the Gen...
Team USA beat Team India 5-0 on Saturday evening at the highly innovative Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas. In the last game of the day, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Gukesh Dommaraju, literally grabbed his opponent's king, and t...
GM Daniel Naroditsky was the deserving winner of October's first Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after he toppled 30 players with Chess.com bullet ratings over 3000 en route to a dominant victory.
Naroditsky scored 55/73 overall and accumu...
In September, IM Nhat Minh To won the 2025 Duck Chess Championship. In October, he conquered another variant, winning the 2025 Seirawan Chess Championship. Minh To did it the hard way, losing his very first match, and then having to win the Grand ...
The recent decision by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change the long-debated 400-point rule for top grandmasters has sparked an outcry, with accusations of "stealing" rating points and warnings that the system is losing credibi...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals to earn $150,000, with the runner-up GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave taking the second $100,000 prize. Vachier-Lagrave won the first game, but Caruana went on a rampage to win three games in a row ...
GM Pranesh M won Freestyle Friday (his first) with a round to spare on October 3, gliding to a 9.5/10 start in the field of 116 players. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in second place with nine points after becoming the first player to finally beat...