Netflix officially announced on Tuesday that its highly anticipated documentary on the 2022 scandal, involving GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, will premiere on the platform on April 7, 2026. Untold: Chess Mates revisits one of the most explos...
It's time to put fire on the chessboard in the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships. The Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship kicks off on March 4 and will feature a $2,500 prize fund. With explosive tactics and incendiary capt...
We're excited to announce the qualification path for this year's most exciting blitz and bullet online event for women. With a $75,000 prize fund, the Women's Speed Chess Championship starts on July 6—but the excitement begins much earlier f...
10-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan scored an incredible 12/13 to reach the Final of the 2026 Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship, but ultimately fell to her English rival FM Supratit Banerjee 3.5-1.5. Banerjee beat another 10-year-old, FM Ashwath...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the second Indian player, alongside GM Nihal Sarin, to win an edition of Bullet Brawl after a dominant performance on Saturday. A 12-game winning streak catapulted Arjun into first place, and he then sealed the $400 f...
With brand-new stakes introduced by the announcement of the Freestyle Friday Championship, the victory that GM Oleksandr Bortnyk earned in the February 20 edition of Freestyle Friday gave him a jumpstart toward potentially playing in the 2027 FIDE...
FM Vasilios Kasioumis, who was the runner-up last year, returned to win it all in the 2026 Chess.com 3-Check Championship. This year's runner-up IM Toivo Keinanen did well to win the Grand Final 3-1, but he wasn't able to win the Reset. Kasioumis ...
GM Fabiano Caruana followed up on his Titled Tuesday victory this week by becoming the first-ever winner of two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on the same day. He won the first tournament on tiebreaks over GM Matthias Bluebaum. He kept up his form by wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will have White against his U.S. rival GM Hikaru Nakamura when the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament begins in five weeks on March 29. The other first-round pairings are GMs Javokhir Sindarov vs. Andrey Esipenko, Matthias Bluebaum...
GM Jan Timman, a former world number-two, multiple world championship candidate, nine-time Dutch national champion, prolific author, honorary editor of New in Chess magazine, and endgame studies specialist, passed away on Wednesday after battling ...