For GM Alexey Sarana, the early Titled Tuesday tournament on July 15 was his 16th career win in the event, and his third of the year. For up-and-coming GM Sina Movahed, the late tournament was his first ever.
The established player was the one…
World number-four GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu headlines a star-studded preliminary list of participants signed up for the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) for the Esports World Cup (EWC), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The LCQ, scheduled for July 24-26, o...
As Chess.com's Fair Play team is shutting down more than 100,000 accounts every month for violating fair play rules, the platform is now considering new measures to combat the constant battle against cheating in online chess.
A new blog post tit...
Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo...
IM Song Yuxin has joined fellow 19-year-olds IM Meruert Kamalidenova and IM Umida Omonova in round four of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup after knocking out GM Anna Muzychuk in round-three tiebreaks. In the six tiebreak matches only one play...
We’re excited to announce that you can now play chess against Steve Aoki’s very own bot on Chess.com! Put on your favorite Steve Aoki track, turn up the volume, and get ready for a high-energy chess match with one of music's most dynam...
GMs Kateryna Lagno and Valentina Gunina struck back against IM Vantika Agrawal and GM Nana Dzagnidze to take their 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup round three matches to tiebreaks. Four more matches will be decided Monday, while 10 players are through...
Bullet Brawl's all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday's event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child.
While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu...
IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child.
The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared...