GM Hikaru Nakamura and Kick are thrilled to present Chess 4 The Masses Sponsored by Kick, a two-tournament event for untitled players that will begin on January 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET/18:00 CET, following in the footsteps of past collaborations betwee...
For the first time since its inception, GM Ray Robson is not the winner of the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Championship. Fourteen-year-old GM Andy Woodward, who was the runner-up in 2024, reversed the narrative this year. He also picked up $1,500 ...
We're excited to announce our newest event, the NextGen Cup! The $20,000 event will take place on February 6 and feature 10 of the African diaspora's most prominent players and personalities. Among the confirmed players, fans will see boy-...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju will play his first official game as world champion against GM Anish Giri on Saturday as the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters begins. Half of the top-10 are in action, with Gukesh joined by GMs Fabiano Caruana, Arjun Erigaisi, Nod...
GMs Ray Robson, Andy Woodward, Daniel Naroditsky, Pranav Venkatesh, and Raunak Sadhwani, as well as IMs Liam Putnam, Yoseph Theolifus Taher, and Anthony Atasanov, have qualified for the eight-player Knockout in the 2025 Chess.com Puzzles Champions...
World Chess Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Viswanathan Anand's talents extend beyond the chessboard, as they demonstrated in a hilarious new video ad. Gukesh has been doing anything but playing chess since winning the title from GM Ding Lir...
On January 14, Titled Tuesday cracked 900 participants for the first time since June 2, 2020, with a total of 905 players. It was the second straight week setting the doubles era record (since February 1, 2022). Out of those 905 hopeful winners, t...
We're excited to announce Freestyle Friday, the new weekly tournament for Titled Players presented by Freestyle Chess. The event will take place every Friday at 11 a.m. ET / 17:00 CET / 9:30 p.m. IST starting January 24 and feature a $1,000 prize ...
A major cheating scandal has rocked the world of Chinese chess and tarnished the reputation of one of China's most cherished traditional games. A number of the game's best players have been handed lifetime bans. Chinese chess, also known as Xian...
"It's of course very, very nice to start off married life as a chess player with a win!” said GM Magnus Carlsen after beating GM Max Warmerdam in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday. His first classical game in almost four months helped St. Pauli ...
GM Volodar Murzin, the newly crowned World Rapid Chess Champion, has shared the harrowing story about how he and his family escaped the violent grip of his abusive father. The 18-year-old grandmaster sensationally became the second-youngest rapi...
GM Daniel Naroditsky picked up right where he left off in the previous edition of Bullet Brawl, scoring 233 points and winning Saturday's event in a field featuring the world number-four, GM Arjun Erigaisi, and 246 other titled players. Startin...
At just nine years old, FM Roman Shogdzhiev has broken the record to become the youngest player in history to score an international master (IM) norm. He is also one of just three players to cross the 2300 barrier before age 10. The exceptional ...
GM Zhu Jiner, the world's 10th highest-rated female player, has called out FIDE for giving her a fine for allegedly violating the dress code policy, claiming it disrupted her performance and contributed to her being knocked out of the 2024 Women's...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Semifinals and then GM Javokhir Sindarov in a thrilling Final to clinch the last spot in next month's $750,000 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. 19-year-old Sindarov inflicted the o...
The first Titled Tuesdays of 2025 were held on January 7, and they were doozies, featuring record-level participation, big scores, and stacked podiums... all as players begin to scramble to qualify for the 2025 Speed Chess Championships through th...
GM Hans Niemann knocked out GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and won the first game against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, but he's out of the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Play-In after blundering mate-in-one at the end of a thrilling blitz playof...
It's that time of the year again! We're excited to announce the Chess.com Puzzles Championship. The event will take place on January 16 and 17 and feature a $5,000 prize fund. This year, the event will be a part of the Chess.com Community ...
In an exclusive first interview, Ella Victoria Carlsen has shed light on her relationship with GM Magnus Carlsen, her new role, and their shared journey. The couple exchanged vows in a picturesque ceremony in the snowy hills of Oslo, attended by...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, Denis Lazavik, Javokhir Sindarov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk will join the likes of GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So in a 16-player Knockout on Chess.com to decide the final spot in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand ...
Egyptian soccer star and chess fan Mohamed Salah has once again expressed his admiration for GM Magnus Carlsen and revealed that he followed the drama in the World Rapid & Blitz Championship in New York. In a new interview by the Norwegian P...
Another year is upon us, and we're all looking forward to what 2025 will bring us. But before we look forward, let's take one last moment to celebrate the great things that happened to chess in 2024! The community has voted, and we finally know ...
GM Robert Huebner, the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker, a four-time world championship candidate, Olympic board one gold medalist, former world number-three, master analyst, writer, polyglot, and papyrologist, has died at the age of ...
In the wake of stellar performances at the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships, GM Daniel Naroditsky won the first Bullet Brawl of 2025 with a score of 246, bagging the $400 first prize and closing the gap between himself and GM ...
The reign of GM Magnus Carlsen as the king of chess now includes a queen. The Norwegian star has tied the knot with Ella Victoria Malone in a ceremony packed with guests on a sunny winter day in Oslo. The couple exchanged their vows in Holmenkol...
