Chess News and Event Coverage

As Chess.com’s Fair Play team is shutting down more than 100,000 accounts every month for violating fair play rules, the platform is now considering new measures to combat the constant battle against cheating in online chess.
A new blog post tit…

Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo…

IM Song Yuxin has joined fellow 19-year-olds IM Meruert Kamalidenova and IM Umida Omonova in round four of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup after knocking out GM Anna Muzychuk in round-three tiebreaks. In the six tiebreak matches only one play…

We’re excited to announce that you can now play chess against Steve Aoki’s very own bot on Chess.com! Put on your favorite Steve Aoki track, turn up the volume, and get ready for a high-energy chess match with one of music’s most dynam…

GMs Kateryna Lagno and Valentina Gunina struck back against IM Vantika Agrawal and GM Nana Dzagnidze, respectively, to take their 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup round-three matches to tiebreaks. Four more matches will be decided Monday, while 10 play…

Bullet Brawl’s all-time title leader GM Hikaru Nakamura outpaced 156 titled players in Saturday’s event moments after announcing that he and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, are expecting their first child.
While streaming live on Kick, Nakamu…

IM Vantika Agrawal followed up knocking out GM Anna Ushenina by beating seventh seed GM Kateryna Lagno as round three of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup began. There were six more wins, for GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Zh…

World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura and his wife, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, announced today that they are expecting their first child.
The news was shared during Nakamura’s Saturday stream on Kick, where the five-time U.S. champion appeared…

NMs Isaac Chiu and Janak Awatramani dominated the 2025 Chess.com Community Bughouse Championship, although they didn’t have the highest FIDE ratings in the field. They won two matches decisively against the second-place team of FM Richard Zheng an…

Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V…

In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all …

12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe…

GM David Howell is the first grandmaster to triumph in Kids vs. Stars without losing a game after making draws against IM Marco Materia and FM Supratit Banerjee and beating FM Megan Paragua and WFM Bodhana Sivanandan. The 3-1 win wasn’t easy, with…

If you were hoping for upsets, blunders, and dramatic twists of fate, game one of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup did not disappoint. On the one hand, we saw several pre-tournament favorites win, including GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana D…

GM Nihal Sarin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners for the July 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. Nakamura also finished third in the early tournament, and after he started out 8/8 in the late event, his 3416 Chess.com Blitz rating had set a new a…

Chess.com is excited to announce our newest partnership with viral Portal sculptures as we celebrate the upcoming International Chess Day with our Portals x Chess.com event. On July 20, starting at 10 a.m. ET / 16:00 CEST, players in Dublin, Lubli…

Team Liquid’s chess roster just got even stronger. The Dutch esports powerhouse has added world number-four GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to their ranks, joining superstar GMs Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.
The 19-year-old Indian prodigy was…

The first set of players have been eliminated from the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup, and 11 players advanced through tiebreaks into an even more challenging round two. The advancing players are WIM Priyanka K, WIM Anahita Zahedifar, IM Klaudia Kulo…

Vietnamese GM Liem Le has won the 2025 Leon Masters after denying Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand an 11th title by winning their final match 3-1. Le beat local hero GM Jaime Santos in the Semifinals, while Anand defeated 11-year-old Arg…

After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots in round two…

Kids vs. Stars will return for its fifth edition on July 9, starting at 1 p.m. ET / 19:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST. This time, world-class commentator GM David Howell will take on four young prodigies to try to keep the stars’ win streak running.
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GM Magnus Carlsen struggled on the final day but still won the 2025 SuperUnited Croatia Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare and a 2.5-point margin. GM Wesley So took second place after winning a crazy game against GM Fabiano Caruana in the fin…

The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup wasn’t the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107 participants fr…

Nine-year-old CM Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore has added another milestone to his young chess career by sensationally scoring his first international master (IM) norm at the 10th Marina Viva Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. Ashwath is just the …