Sindarov shook up the standings by scoring his 1st classical win since the Candidates against leader Keymer, while Caruana ended Praggnanandhaa's 24-game unbeaten streak in Bucharest!

Plenty of footballers enjoy chess. But few, if any, can match the level of Major League Soccer star Dejan Joveljić, who boasts a rating of 2217 FIDE. www.chess.com/news/view/de...

Vincent Keymer was the big winner in Bucharest on Wednesday, and he didn't set foot in the playing hall!

The 2026 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Chess Championships have attracted 43 teams and over 300 of the planet's elite players—headlined by none other than world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Aravindh Chithambaram, Andrey Esipenko, Liem Le, and Alexey Sarana qualified for the 2026 Esports World Cup Play-in! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Alireza Firouzja played 2 games from a hotel bed, but has now decided to withdraw from the Super Chess Classic! His results stand, while his remaining 4 opponents get forfeit wins: www.chess.com/news/view/fi...

Alexey Sarana won #TitledTuesday and, in the same event, Hikaru Nakamura set the website's new highest blitz rating! www.chess.com/news/view/sa...

Firouzja returned to action... from his bed!

Vincent Keymer took the sole lead in Bucharest on a day when Alireza Firouzja was unable to play and Wesley So was thwarted by Bogdan-Daniel Deac in a 6-hour thriller!

Giri's late win over Firouzja saw him climb above Sindarov to World no. 5, while Alireza slipped out of the Top 10!

Praggnanandhaa got some revenge for 2 losses in the Candidates by ending Sindarov's 53-game unbeaten streak! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Firouzja missed a great chance to beat defending champion Praggnanandhaa on a day of huge fights and missed chances in Bucharest! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

France announced its Open and Women's teams for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026 on Tuesday and notably addressed the absence of French number-one and world number-nine GM Alireza Firouzja. www.chess.com/news/view/fr...

Congratulations to Ian Nepomniachtchi on winning his 1st Titled Tuesday in 20 months! www.chess.com/news/view/ne...

Best-selling author Ben Mezrich talks about 'Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess': "[Niemann]’s a genius—there’s no question in my mind. But he’s also laced with paranoia… and this feeling that the world is against him." www.chess.com/news/view/be...

It took GM Axel Smith more than 29 hours to complete a 49-board blindfold simul this weekend. The Swedish grandmaster scored a dominant 41-8—but said afterward that raising awareness for a climate cause mattered more than the result or any record. www.chess.com/news/view/ax...

🇦🇷 Faustino Oro has become the 2nd youngest chess grandmaster in history, achieving the title at the age of 12 years, 6 months & 26 days! www.chess.com/news/view/fa...

GM Hans Niemann won the 2026 #GrandChessTour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the biggest tournament win of his career so far, to earn the $50,000 first prize. www.chess.com/news/view/ni...

Congratulations to Hans Niemann for winning the 2026 #GrandChessTour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland! That comes with a $50,000 prize, and it's the second year in a row that a wildcard wins the event!

Even by ending the day with three losses, Hans Niemann leads the #GrandChessTour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after the first nine rounds of blitz. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Congratulations to Vincent Keymer on winning his 3rd Freestyle Friday of 2026, with his coach Peter Leko commentating! www.chess.com/news/view/ke...

Magnus Carlsen after clinching victory in TePe Sigeman Chess: "Great atmosphere and it was fun to play and really, really exciting in the end. It was a fantastic experience!" www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GM Hans Niemann leads the #GrandChessTour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after nine rounds of rapid chess, with 18 rounds of blitz to come in the next two days. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Carlsen caught Erodgmus before they clash in the final round of TePe Sigeman Chess, but Arjun leads them both by half a point after beating Zhu!

American GMs Wesley So and Hans Niemann lead the #GrandChessTour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland after six rounds! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

"For the first time in 500 years, I finally get a win in Titled Tuesday!" says Nakamura after winning for the 1st time since November!

Arjun joined Erdogmus in the lead, while Carlsen said after his bounce-back win vs. Zhu: "I just feel really, really lucky that I managed to survive... Yesterday was kind of fun, to be honest. A lot more fun than today, that’s for sure!"

Half the field shares the lead after a combative first day of rapid chess in the #GrandChessTour! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Jorden van Foreest on beating Magnus Carlsen for the 1st time in classical chess: "Actually I didn’t think it would happen ever, so it’s a big moment!"

Erdogmus is up to World no. 29 and Arjun back in the Top-10 at World no. 9 after they grabbed their 1st wins in Malmo!

"That was a fun game, for sure!" said Magnus Carlsen after playing the Benoni to score his 1st classical win in 6 months!

Webster University has cancelled its top chess program, SPICE, and received a scathing reaction from GM Susan Polgar. www.chess.com/news/view/sp...

Abdusattorov & Woodward grabbed the early wins as Carlsen returned to classical chess in Malmo! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

For the second time, Jan-Krzysztof Duda won both #TitledTuesday and #FreestyleFriday in the same week! www.chess.com/news/view/du...

If 2024 was the golden year for India, with double gold in the Olympiad and Gukesh Dommaraju crowned world champion, 2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for Uzbekistan so far. Javokhir Sindarov had the highest gain in the world top-100 this April. www.chess.com/news/view/ma...

Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who had already just qualified for the 2026 Esports World Cup, followed up by winning #TitledTuesday on April 28. www.chess.com/news/view/du...

Alexandra Botez got off to a shaky start with a lost position by move 7, but she went on to beat 4 talented kids 2.5-1.5 in the latest edition of Kids vs. Stars!

Congratulations to IM Greg Shahade on dethroning Ding as champion of... Jeopardy!

Team Liquid's Magnus Carlsen won the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in an exhilarating Grand Final. www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

Jan-Krzysztof Duda has fought his way back to a rematch with Magnus Carlsen in the Grand Final! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Magnus Carlsen is in the Grand Final of the Chess.com Open Playoffs! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GM Nodirbek Yakubboev picked up his first victory in #FreestyleFriday! www.chess.com/news/view/ya...

Carlsen & Caruana talk about the upcoming Gukesh-Sindarov match! www.chess.com/news/view/ca... Carlsen: "Gukesh has very, very obvious weaknesses when it comes to his understanding, and Sindarov does not..." Caruana: "Do we really assume that a 19-year-old is just done?"

A new documentary following Carlsen, So, Niemann & other top chess players as Freestyle Chess bids to revolutionize the game is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 7!

Congratulations to Nihal Sarin on winning this week's Titled Tuesday! www.chess.com/news/view/ni...

WGM Jennifer Shahade delivers a case for why chess thinking matters far beyond the board in her new book Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life. www.chess.com/news/view/je...

Ukraine's Roman Dehtiarov is the youngest, lowest-seeded player, and only IM ever to win the European Championship—and it's given him the GM title! www.chess.com/news/view/uk...

Luis Ignasio, aka EyeoftheTiger1204, defended his title in the second edition of the 4-Player Chess Championship! www.chess.com/news/view/ig...

Only 2 players leave Cyprus entirely happy—Javokhir Sindarov & Vaishali Rameshbabu! We take a last look back at the #FIDECandidates: www.chess.com/news/view/si...

Kazakh-based investment and technology company Freedom Holding has acquired ChessBase, perhaps the most influential company in chess software and professional training tools over the past three decades. www.chess.com/news/view/fr...