Americans Wesley So and Carissa Yip lead #TataSteelChessIndia after day one of blitz! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GMs Denis Lazavik, Alexey Sarana, and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the three 3 0 Thursday tournaments on January 8! www.chess.com/news/view/la...

Oleksandr Bortnyk is your #FreestyleFriday winner on January 9, after he recovered from a loss in round three by never losing again. www.chess.com/news/view/bo...

GMs Nihal Sarin and Kateryna Lagno won their respective Rapid tournaments in Kolkata! www.chess.com/news/view/ni...

Viswanathan Anand and Nihal Sarin ended day two of 2026 #TataSteelChessIndia in the shared lead with 4.5 points out of six games! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

It's time to remember the most remarkable chess games of 2025. See the top 10 as analyzed by GM Rafael Leitao www.chess.com/article/view...

Freestyle Chess and FIDE have agreed to join forces to stage the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, scheduled for February 13–15, 2026, in Weissenhaus, Germany. www.chess.com/news/view/fr...

Back in action, Viswanathan Anand leads with Hans Niemann in #TataSteelChessIndia after day 1! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

The chess federations of Ukraine, England, Norway, Estonia & Germany are taking FIDE to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the decision to allow Russian and Belarusian teams to return to chess events!

Magnus Carlsen's total prizes in 2025: $1,455,276 www.chess.com/article/view...

New year, same winner. #TitledTuesday www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

The first 16 players have been determined for the 2026 Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot tournament (“Total Chess 2026 Pilot”), FIDE and Norway Chess announced on Tuesday. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has marched into 2026 with 19 extra rating points after a tremendous performance in the 2025 London Chess Classic in December. www.chess.com/news/view/ja...

Magnus Carlsen is a 20-time world champion! Twenty-one-year-old Bibisara Assaubayeva won the women's world blitz title for a third time! www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

Vincent Keymer finished in the tie for 20th place in the World Blitz Championship, but it gave him a chance to win his 1st Titled Tuesday (and the last Titled Tuesday) of 2025!

GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fabiano Caruana lead the 2025 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship with 10 points out of 13 games. IM Eline Roebers is in the sole lead of the Women's with 8.5/10. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Magnus Carlsen won his sixth world rapid championship title after winning the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship a full point ahead of the field with 10.5/13. www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Hans Niemann lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after day two with 7.5 points out of nine games. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Vladislav Artemiev lead the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with 4.5 points out of five games on the first day. Zhu Jiner leads the Women's with a perfect 4/4! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

"As long as I’m in good shape, I’ll be a dangerous man!" Magnus Carlsen previews the World Rapid & Blitz Championships!

Giri starred as Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers won the 2025 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League! #TechMGCL #MegaMove

It was Jan-Krzysztof Duda's first win in #TitledTuesday since February 18, and he got there by defeating Magnus Carlsen in the final round. www.chess.com/news/view/du...

GM Jonathan Hawkins, a two-time British Champion, author, and coach, passed away on Monday at the age of 42 after losing the battle with a rare form of cancer. www.chess.com/news/view/jo...

A 20-move miniature by Hou Yifan, her 4th win in a row, made all the difference as Caruana's Alpine SG Pipers booked their spot to face Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings in tomorrow's final! #TechMGCL #MegaMove

Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings have booked their spot in the final with a day to spare—tomorrow we'll find out who they'll face! #TechMGCL #MegaMove

An extraordinary 16-1 win for Nakamura's American Gambits over MVL's 2nd placed Mumba Masters was the highlight of Day 7 of the Global Chess League!

After 5 wins in a row, Alireza Firouzja's reign of terror was finally stopped by Fabiano Caruana and Gukesh Dommaraju! www.chess.com/news/view/20... #TechMGCL #MegaMove

There's no stopping GM Alireza Firouzja, who won his fifth game in a row on Thursday. His team, Triveni Continental Kings, beat co-leaders upGrad Mumba Masters 9-5. #TechMGCL #MegaMove www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Alireza Firouzja has now scored 4/4 in Mumbai, with only MVL tomorrow standing in the way of a complete set of all his rivals!

12-year-old 🇦🇷 Faustino Oro is now one GM norm in the next 3 months away from becoming the youngest grandmaster in history!

Former World Champion Vishy Anand took down Current World Champion Gukesh today in Mumbai, as both leading teams lost! #TechMGCL #MegaMove

By his own admission, it wasn't pretty, but Magnus Carlsen got the job done in #TitledTuesday on December 16 as he successfully flagged Alexander Grischuk in the final round! www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

Nakamura won his game on Day 2 of the Global Chess League, but the upGrad Mumba Masters won the match after a brilliant win for Mamedyarov! www.chess.com/news/view/20... #TechMGCL #MegaMove

Congratulations to Hikaru Nakamura and Atousa Pourkashiyan on becoming parents! www.chess.com/news/view/hi...

A sparkling win for Firouzja vs. Caruana was one of the highlights on a day when 14 of the world's top 15 were in action in Mumbai, India! www.chess.com/news/view/20... #TechMGCL #MegaMove

The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League starts tomorrow in Mumbai, India, with Nakamura, Firouzja, Caruana, Gukesh, Anand & MVL leading the 6 teams! www.chess.com/events/2025-... #MegaMove #TechMGCL

Levon Aronian defeated Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in the title match of the 2025 #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Finals to win the $200,000 first prize. www.chess.com/news/view/ar...

World Champions Ju Wenjun & Gukesh Dommaraju are the 1st players confirmed for next year's Total Chess World Championship Tour — how will the other 22 players qualify?

GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian will contest the title match of the 2025 #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Finals, where first place comes with $200,000. www.chess.com/news/view/vi...

With Praggnanandhaa and Nakamura picking up the final spots, the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament lineup is complete! www.chess.com/news/view/pr...

An undefeated GM Sam Sevian won #TitledTuesday on December 9—his first since 2021—scoring 9.5 points to claim an outright victory ahead of five players on nine points. www.chess.com/news/view/se...

Magnus Carlsen has clinched the 2025 #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Tour with two days to spare, though there's still $200,000 left to win! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is set to smash Magnus Carlsen's record as the youngest player ever to enter the World Top 50!

Birthday boy GM Javokhir Sindarov finished at the top of the Group Stage with 5.5/7 in the #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Firouzja took 2nd and £15,000 in London, but finished a full 2 points behind Abdusattorov (£25,000) who had wrapped up victory with a round to spare!

The latest 🇮🇳 chess champion — congratulations to Samay Raina on becoming the 1st ever winner of SuperPogChamps! www.chess.com/news/view/su...

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha from India was 2.5 years old when he picked up chess. Now he plays up to five hours a day, and at just three years, seven months, and 20 days, he has become the youngest FIDE-rated player. www.chess.com/news/view/3-...

Nodirbek Abdusattorov called it "truly an amazing tournament for me" as he clinched victory in the London Chess Classic with a round to spare!

Sardoche overpowered Linda Diaz with his chess, while Wirtual's own mouse betrayed him in his match against Andrea Botez in the Super PogChamps Quarterfinals! www.chess.com/news/view/su...

Before the Freestyle Chess finals Hans Niemann beat Fabiano Caruana in a Dive Chess final! Magnus Carlsen wasn't a huge fan: "Essentially my brain is all that I have & anything that I perceive to be dangerous is a little bit difficult for me!" www.chess.com/news/view/20...