Already a candidate for the World Championship, GM Javokhir Sindarov took steps toward the 2026 Esports World Cup as well on February 10, winning Titled Tuesday with a 10/11 score. Coming in the largest field since September (455), it was his seco...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Speed Chess Championship to earn his fifth title after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in the Final. A participant in its very first edition in 2016, Carlsen called this year's Final "probably the most fun Speed Chess ...
Get ready for the next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships! The Chess.com 3-Check Chess Championship starts on February 18 at 9 a.m. ET / 15:00 CET / 7:30 p.m. IST and features a $2,500 prize fund—so get ready to indulge in ...
Current and former NFL players gathered before the Super Bowl for the second annual BlitzChamps Live tournament and festivities in San Francisco, California, on February 6. At the end of the celebration of football and chess, Will Davis, a former ...
We're excited to announce that the ChessKid Youth Championships are back for 2026! Following the same format as previous years, the event will bring together a stellar field of young talents in the Under-13 and Under-16 categories. Watch as the fu...
GM Magnus Carlsen succeeded in defending his fifth title at the 2025 Speed Chess Championship by defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 15-12 in the Final. It's his third title in consecutive years and Carlsen earned $38,888.89 for his efforts, while Firou...
In an exhibition of dynamism and speed, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his first Bullet Brawl title in five months after outpacing 154 titled players in Saturday's two-hour arena. With GM Hikaru Nakamura unavailable to defend his five-week winnin...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja are the two finalists in the 2025 Speed Chess Championship. Carlsen prevailed in a one-sided match against GM Denis Lazavik 17-9, while Firouzja pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in SCC history to rea...
The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) has today officially announced that chess will be a part of the inaugural Esports Nations Cup (ENC), set to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from November 2-8, 2026. Chess will be one of 16 esports titl...
The 7uice Educational Fair, held on January 31 in Boston, Massachusetts, brought leaders from seemingly unrelated fields to the 64 squares on the chessboard. The 7uice Foundation, founded by Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, partners with instit...
GM Vincent Keymer rode his 10th-round victory over GM Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Friday to a win in the tournament on February 6. Both players scored nine points but Keymer's tiebreaks put him in the lead. Keymer previously won on May 2, 2025, an...
It was a day for "M" names in 3 0 Thursday on February 5, as GMs Parham Maghsoodloo, Haik Martirosyan, and Jose Martinez took the top spots. It was Martinez's fifth victory in the tournament, Maghsoodloo's second, and Martirosyan's first. The wome...
GM Judit Polgar's extraordinary career is in the global spotlight as Netflix released its new documentary, Queen of Chess, on Friday, February 6. The 94-minute film is available to stream today on the platform for its more than 300 million subscri...
IM Polina Shuvalova set a new all-time Chess.com blitz rating record by a woman, surpassing the previous mark shared by IM Eline Roebers and WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya from last year. The 24-year-old climbed to 2941, edging closer than ever to re...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took home Titled Tuesday on February 3, becoming the first player all year to score 10/11, allowing him to avoid tiebreaks to beat out GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Alexey Sarana on 9.5 points. The win was not only Vachier-...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored one of the best results of his career so far to win sole first place in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters, with second-placed GM Javokhir Sindarov completing the Uzbek domination. We look back at some conclusions fr...
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus was recently described by GM Magnus Carlsen as the strongest 14-year-old in the history of the game. He's demonstrated his ability in recent months, and gained more points than anyone else among the world's top-100 players i...
It’s no secret that pro athletes love to play chess, even the ones who prefer skates and skis over sneakers and cleats. That’s why this month we’re rolling out the Frozen Five, a team of winter sport athletes who love to warm up ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov called it a "dream come true" as he defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi's Evans Gambit to win the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters with 9/13. GM Javokhir Sindarov gambled to keep playoff hopes alive and ultimately beat GM Thai Da...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's historic run in the Bullet Brawl arena continued on Saturday with a fifth consecutive $400 victory, marking the first time a player has won a full month of Brawls since the event's inception. Reminiscent of the pre...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov takes a half-point lead into the final round of the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters after beating GM Matthias Bluebaum while GM Javokhir Sindarov made a quick draw against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. Sindarov is the m...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has joined his compatriot GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess Masters lead on 7/11 after winning a pawn and grinding out a win against GM Arjun Erigaisi. GM Hans Niemann joins a three-way tie half a point beh...
GM Sina Movahed won his fifth Freestyle Friday on January 30, holding at least a share of the lead in every round of the tournament to join GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Arjun Erigaisi, and Magnus Carlsen with five or more. Carlsen finis...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his first six games in the opening 3 0 Thursday tournament on January 29, bringing his Chess.com blitz rating to a record 3454. Nakamura slowed down after that and the tournament winners of the day were GMs Sina Movahed, Mag...
The SP Lohia Foundation is hosting an RSVP-only panel discussion and book signing in connection with Speed Chess Championship on Friday, February 6 at 19:30 GMT, taking place at 180 Strand in the Soho Works. The conversation between IM Danny Rensc...
