Liam Hereford won the 2025 Chess.com Atomic Chess Championship after winning both the Winners Final and Grand Final Reset. Eduardo Lorenzon lost to Hereford early in the Winners Semifinals but climbed through three matches in the Losers Bracket to...
GM Kateryna Lagno has withdrawn from the 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix India in Pune, India, which is part of the women’s world championship cycle. FIDE published that Lagno, as well as IM Sara Khadem, withdrew from the tournament that'...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his first Freestyle Friday on March 28, scoring nine points and winning on tiebreaks against four other players on the same score: GMs Alexey Sarana, Jose Martinez, Jeffery Xiong, and Christopher Yoo. It was the third ...
What's more human than this? A recent study by a group of California researchers has shown than some artificial intelligence (AI) programs cheat at chess without any stakes on the outcome of the game. In the study, several prominent chatbots wer...
GM Matthias Bluebaum is the first player to win the European Chess Championship two times. He previously won gold in 2022 and is also the only German to top the event in its 25-year history. He finished in a three-way tie on 8.5/11 with GMs Freder...
GM Kirill Shevchenko, ranked 75th in the world, has received a three-year worldwide ban from chess, with one year suspended, allowing him to return to competitive play in October 2026. The 22-year-old confessed to hiding a phone in the toilet but ...
We're excited to announce that everyone's favorite chess tournament for amateurs is back! Starting April 29, PogChamps 6 will bring 12 celebrity creators and professional athletes together to participate in the world's funniest and most unique che...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the early Titled Tuesday on March 25 on tiebreaks ahead of World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, although Nakamura scored his 9.5 points in just 10 games after missing round three, which also hurt his ...
Following his win at the 2025 American Cup, GM Hikaru Nakamura picked up another $5,000 the next day with his first-place finish in the 2025 American Cup Blitz. After two weeks of battling with the U.S.'s best players, he leaves St. Louis with a t...
GM Anna Muzychuk has won the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks ahead of GM Zhu Jiner, though both players take 117.5 Grand Prix points and €15,500 (~$16,750) each. The last round ended in five draws, but only after IM Olga Bad...
More than 40 years after the BBC first dipped its programming toe into chess with The Master Game, the network has returned this month with Chess Masters: The Endgame, which airs at 8 p.m. GMT on Monday nights. One of the main differences between ...
In last season's Collegiate Chess League (CCL) finals, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) defeated St. Louis University (SLU) in a tight match. There were some adventures along the way, but both teams have worked their way back to the Collegiate ...
A solid draw with the black pieces vs. GM Fabiano Caruana was all GM Hikaru Nakamura needed to win The American Cup Grand Final on Sunday in St. Louis. Nakamura won the $75,000 first prize plus a $15,000 Champion's Bracket bonus, with $55,000...
GM Anna Muzychuk's fourth win, over GM Elisabeth Paehtz, saw her catch GM Zhu Jiner in the lead going into the final round of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix. GMs Harika Dronavalli, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and Mariya Muzychuk are within s...
GM Hikaru Nakamura started the The American Cup Grand Final with a win in the first classical game vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. Nakamura needs a draw with Black on Sunday to clinch the $75,000 first prize. After entering the Women's American Cup...
GM Andrew Tang has become the third player in Bullet Brawl history to secure a hat trick after the American topped the 200-player titled arena on Saturday with a score of 255 points. He seized the $400 first prize for the fifth time this year...
GM Zhu Jiner has regained the sole lead in the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix after brilliantly beating IM Divya Deshmukh while GM Anna Muzychuk missed a tactical blow that gave IM Olga Badelka her first win. GM Nana Dzagnidze scored the day...
A day after losing the Champions Final, GM Fabiano Caruana earned his spot in The American Cup Grand Final after all. Caruana beat GM Levon Aronian on Friday in a blitz playoff in the Elimination Bracket Final and will now play GM Hikaru Naka...
GM Harika Dronavalli pounced on a late mistake by GM Nana Dzagnidze to recover from what she called a "heartbreaking loss" in the previous round of the 2025 Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix. Harika is joined a point behind leader GM Anna Muzyc...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Freestyle Friday on March 21 in what was the closest yet of the nine tournaments so far, but ultimately, his second win following one on January 31. And while Bortnyk lost in the final round, which created a five-way tie f...
What was intended to be a harmless joke turned into a firestorm, racking up over 50 million views and becoming Chess.com's most viral post ever. Chess.com's social media accounts have nearly nine million followers across all platforms. They aim ...
Chess.com’s Chief Chess Officer, IM Danny Rensch, hosted the latest installment of State of Chess on Thursday. He was joined by several colleagues to share exciting updates, including the highly anticipated return of PogChamps. The three-h...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen will play the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, while 50-year-old former world number-one Veselin Topalov returns to top-level chess to play the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. Other wildcards announced for ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in blitz tiebreaks to win the Champions Final of The American Cup 2025, which comes with a $15,000 bonus. In the Women's American Cup Champions Final, IM Alice Lee survived a dead-lost endgame ag...
GM Hans Niemann said he has withdrawn from a previously agreed-upon polygraph test, popularly known as a "lie detector test," following his loss against GM Daniil Dubov, citing the Russian's "disrespectful" behavior. [Updated March 21, 2025...
