GM Kateryna Lagno and IM Alice Lee advance to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Women's #SpeedChess Championship after winning their Round of 16 matches on Wednesday. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Jaime Santos beat Faustino Oro and Liem Le to win the Leon Masters for his 2nd time! www.chess.com/news/view/sa...

By taking the July 7 #TitledTuesday outright on 9.5/11, GM Arjun Erigaisi has broken into the Titled Tuesday winners column in 2026, ahead of seven players who tied on nine points. www.chess.com/news/view/ar...

🔥 GM Benjamin Bok has qualified for the 2026 Esports World Cup after defeating GM Vidit Gujrathi in the 2026 India Rising Finals in Mumbai on July 4. www.chess.com/news/view/bo...

The next world championship challenger, GM Javokhir Sindarov, won both the rapid and blitz tournaments at the Naroditsky Memorial, while IM John Bartholomew scored an impressive 9-0 to win the Creator Invitational tournament. www.chess.com/news/view/si...

Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and two-time Women's Blitz World Champion Anna Muzychuk advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Women's #SpeedChess Championship on Monday. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Alireza Firouzja called it the worst blitz day of his life, but despite squandering a 3-point lead he ultimately beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov in Armageddon to take the title in Croatia!

Firouzja scored a brilliant 8/9 to open up a 3-point lead going into the final day of the Grand Chess Tour event in Croatia!

A perfect 3 wins for Praggnanandhaa saw him catch Firouzja in the Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia lead before this weekend's 18 rounds of blitz! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Magnus Carlsen recently appeared in a promo with Cristiano Ronaldo as well as a Prime Video documentary on the previous Esports World Cup! www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

Lazavik beat Carlsen & Duda on the way to winning the 1st 3 0 Thursday yesterday, while Murzin and Taher won the following tournaments!

Firouzja increased his lead to 3 points, while Gukesh ended the day with 2 wins to move up to 2nd place!

Alireza Firouzja bounced back from a tough Bullet Championship final to take the sole lead on Day 1 of the Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia!

It's now 1⃣5⃣ years unbroken since Magnus Carlsen took over the chess world no. 1 spot from Vishy Anand back in July 2011! 🥳

Nihal Sarin won the 2026 #BulletChess Championship, winning 15 consecutive games against defending champion Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final. www.chess.com/news/view/ni...

Alireza Firouzja is through to the Grand Final of the 2026 #BulletChess Championship after winning an exhilarating Winners Final against GM Arjun Erigaisi 13-11, including tiebreaks, this Friday. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

15-year-old Norwegian Havard Haug did what Magnus Carlsen didn't manage this week—he won one of the 3 0 Thursday events!

Congratulations to Pranesh on winning the last Freestyle Friday before September! www.chess.com/news/view/pr...

GMs Alireza Firouzja and Arjun Erigaisi advanced to the Winners Final of the 2026 #BulletChess Championship on Thursday. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nihal Sarin, Andrew Tang, and Arjun Erigaisi won both matches on day one of the 2025 #BulletChess Championship to advance in the Winners Bracket. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

"It's hard to call anyone the favorite. I think it's 50-50!" — Javokhir Sindarov on his upcoming World Championship match vs. Gukesh Dommaraju

GM Jules Moussard became the latest first-time #TitledTuesday winner on June 23, taking home the tournament by a full point on a 10/11 score. www.chess.com/news/view/mo...

Andy Woodward fought back valiantly to defeat Andrew Tang in the Grand Final Reset and deny him the title for the third year in a row in the Hyperbullet Championship 2026. www.chess.com/news/view/wo...

A Magnus Carlsen game from 2010 and his famous queen sacrifice from the 2016 World Championship match helped shape the central chess battle in The Nation's Gambit, a new Norwegian political thriller, in which every captured piece costs a human life!

Ding Liren is a double world champion again after Dragon Chilling adding blitz to their rapid gold medals!

Magnus Carlsen shrugged off 4 losses in a row by winning his first 8 games of blitz as the World Team Blitz Championship began! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

It all came down to the smallest of margins in the final round, but Ding Liren's Dragon Chilling took the FIDE World Team Rapid Gold! 🥇 www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Championship before the final day, while WR Chess's hopes of gold are slim after 2 more defeats—and 2 losses in a row for Magnus Carlsen! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Dragon (Ding!) Chilling and Kazchess were the only teams to remain perfect on Day 1 of the World Team Rapid Championship in Hong Kong!

Congratulations to Alexey Sarana on winning Titled Tuesday with a near perfect 10.5/11 — his one draw was vs. Magnus Carlsen! www.chess.com/news/view/sa...

GM Magnus Carlsen won the inaugural 2026 ASEAN E-Sports Chess Cup on June 13 and the $8,500 first prize. After finishing at the top of Group A, he went on to defeat GM Andrey Esipenko 2-1 in the Championship Final. www.chess.com/news/view/ca...

MVL, Liem Le, and Matthias Bluebaum are among 61 qualifiers for the Esports Nations Cup. They will join three wildcards and 64 players who are either invited or have previously earned spots from the Champions Chess Tour and the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

GM Mukhiddin Madaminov won the 2026 UzChess Cup Masters and $20,000 after defeating GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov 2-0 in blitz tiebreaks. www.chess.com/news/view/ma...

GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Dmitry Andreikin, and Aravindh Chithambaram emerged with the best tiebreaks to win the 3 0 Thursday tournaments on June 11. www.chess.com/news/view/na...

GM Pranav Venkatesh overcame losses in the second and fourth rounds in #FreestyleFriday on June 12 to win all his other games, take first place outright, and pass GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship (FFC) standings. www.chess.com/news/view/pr...

GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov leads the 2026 UzChess Cup after picking up three wins in a row. 13 games have been decisive out of 20, with a notable whitewash of 5/5 white wins in round two. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Chess stepped further into the mainstream spotlight on Saturday as Grandmasters, the new docuseries featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and other leading figures of the game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. www.chess.com/news/view/gr...

GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda impressively won #TitledTuesday on June 9 with a score of 10/11. www.chess.com/news/view/du...

"Every game, you're just feeling, I can do it, but you still don't expect to win four in a row," said Praggnanandhaa after winning #NorwayChess. Here are 9 conclusions to draw from the tournament. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

15-year-old Ukrainian WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the most remarkable upsets of European championship history, winning the European Women's Championship outright in Batumi, Georgia. www.chess.com/news/view/hn...

IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008. www.chess.com/news/view/11...

Praggnanandhaa was in last place and 5.5 points behind So after losing in Round 6, but he stormed back to win the next 4 classical games and clinch the Norway Chess title!

Bibisara Assaubayeva won #NorwayChess Women with a round to spare, while Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu scored the hat trick with a win over World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

World no. 1 Magnus Carlsen lost a 4th game in Norway Chess 2026, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju a 3rd, while Bibisara Assaubayeva is a draw away from clinching the Women's title!

Arjun Erigaisi is back at world number-8, ending a short period with no Indian players in the top-10! www.chess.com/news/view/ar...

Wesley So and Bibisara Assaubayeva continue to lead in #NorwayChess after round seven, as we approach one more round before the rest day! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Half the games were decisive in round five of #NorwayChess and Norway Chess Women! Wesley So, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Divya Deshmukh picked up wins! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

World number-one Magnus Carlsen beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the only classical win of round four of #NorwayChess, exorcising the ghost of their infamous table-slam game from the 2025 event. www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Praggnanandhaa wins a rollercoaster game against Carlsen to move up to 2nd place in Norway Chess, leaving the 7-time champion 1.5 points adrift in last place! www.chess.com/news/view/20...

Alireza Firouzja said focusing on chess helps with pain, and it's his rivals who have suffered so far in Oslo as he's stormed to 6/6 and a 3.5-point lead!