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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
FIDE's last events of 2024 crowned five world champions: World Rapid Champion Volodar Murzin, Women's World Rapid Champion Koneru Humpy, Women's World Blitz Champion Ju Wenjun, and finally Blitz World Co-Champions Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniach...
The last four Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024 were held on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and featured four individual tournament winners... plus one additional big winner. GM Magnus Carlsen celebrated Christmas Eve this year by winning th...
India's incredibly successful year is also reflected in a comparison of the FIDE rating lists of January 2024 and January 2025. Top 100 GMs Aravindh Chithambaram (+64), Arjun Erigaisi (+63), and Gukesh Dommaraju (+52) had the biggest rating gains ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have agreed to share the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship title after Carlsen's suggestion seven games into their final. After sensationally U-turning on his decision to withdraw from the event, ...
The top eight players of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship and FIDE Women's World Blitz Chess Championship have qualified for their respective knockout tournaments on day two. The following eight players advance in the Open: Russian ...
GM Magnus Carlsen has made a sensational U-turn and confirmed that he will participate in the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship in New York. The seven-time World Blitz Champion has now received the green light to play with jeans. The announceme...
GM Volodar Murzin won the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with an undefeated 10/13 score. At 18 years old, he is the second-youngest rapid world champion in history, after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who was 17 during his victory in 2021. ...
GM Ediz Gurel captured first place and $400 in 2024's final Bullet Brawl, one week after falling short of his second title. Following their tussle at the top in the previous event, GM Oleksander Bortnyk fell three points shy of wresting the title ...
GM Magnus Carlsen will no longer participate in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship or the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after a dress-code disagreement with FIDE. He finishes the Rapid with a 5/8 score and will not defend his doubl...
GMs Volodar Murzin, Shant Sargsyan, Leinier Dominguez, and Daniel Naroditsky lead the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after five rounds. GM Denis Lazavik, on 3.5/5, defeated pre-tournament favorite GM Magnus Carlsen, on 2.5/5, in our Game...
GM Magnus Carlsen has just won the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals in Oslo, Norway. It's Carlsen's fifth Champions Chess Tour title, and he's the only player to win the event since it began in 2020. He's added another trophy to the collection as ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the third player to win 10 Bullet Brawl titles and the $400 first prize on Saturday after denying Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel, courtesy of a dramatic flagging against GM Christopher Yoo in his final game. Indon...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive Champions Chess Tour title. Again earning the $200,000 first prize, Carlsen has won every edition of the Champions Chess Tou...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have advanced to the title match of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-1.5, even after missing a checkmate-in-two he could have played in the final game. N...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja made it to the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Semifinals by finishing as numbers one and two in the round-robin, while GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advanced through the Survival Stage....
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Round-Robin with 5/6, despite dropping one loss to Alireza Firouzja on Wednesday. Three players follow just one point behind: GMs Firouzja, Denis Lazavik, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. ...
Two of the world's best blitz players added Titled Tuesday winner to their list of 2024 accomplishments on December 17, with GM Parham Maghsoodloo winning the early tournament outright on 10 points, followed by GM Daniel Naroditsky scoring 9.5 poi...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Denis Lazavik lead the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals round-robin after three rounds on the opening day, with perfect scores. GM Wesley So came as close as you can get to defeating the world-number one without actually win...
