GM Fabiano Caruana wrested the lead from GM Levon Aronian in the last round of day two in the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. He won their direct encounter to finish the day with 10 points. Tied in second-third are Aronian and GM Wesley…
GM Awonder Liang beat GM Pranav Venkatesh in round six of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 to enter the 2700 club and catch GM Arjun Erigaisi in second place. Arjun lived dangerously against leader GM Vincent Keymer but ultimately drew, mea...
GM-elect Divya Deshmukh and GM Bibisara Assaubayeva have advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Divya, fresh off her FIDE Women's World Cup victory, picked up right where she left off, winning 10-3 against GM L...
GM Levon Aronian leads the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a perfect 6/6 score after the first three rounds of rapid chess. GM Fabiano Caruana had a strong start as well with 5/6—two wins and a draw. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju b...
GM Jorden van Foreest bounced back after two losses in a row to beat GM Ray Robson in the only decisive game of round five of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025. As the tournament crossed the halfway mark, GM Vincent Keymer maintained his one...
The inaugural day of the AI chess exhibition match in Google's new Kaggle Game Arena project saw dominating performances by four of the Large Language Models (LLMs) on display. Four 4-0 sweeps took Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, Grok 4, and o3 to the Se...
Ten-year-old prodigy WFM Bodhana Sivanandan stunned the nation in the 2025 British Chess Championship in Liverpool on Sunday, becoming the youngest woman ever to beat a grandmaster and the youngest-ever to earn the Woman International Master title...
Every spring and fall, top collegiate chess players from around the world compete in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Just like in academia, the Summer season is more relaxed. Instead of a full season of team matches, schools played in three com...
GM Nihal Sarin was finally rewarded for his entertaining chess in the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 when he won a great fighting game against GM Arjun Erigaisi. That meant that GM Vincent Keymer took a full-point lead despite being held to h...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and IM Polina Shuvalova have advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. While Kosteniuk was clearly too strong for IM Carissa Yip (11-4), Shuvalova only narrowly beat IM Meri Arabidze (7-6) i...