GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang continued as joint leaders with 2.5 points after their mutual encounter ended in a draw in the third round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship. GM Andy Woodward was rewarded with a win for his dynamic play against G...

GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang won again in round two of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship to lead with 2/2 perfect scores. So was much worse against GM Jeffery Xiong but turned it around, while Liang converted an endgame to give GM Sam Sevian his...

History was made in the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday as GM Hikaru Nakamura acquired his fifth straight title, eclipsing a record set and shared by the late GM Daniel Naroditsky and himself back in 2023. Nakamura made his biggest move in the sec...

GM Parham Maghsoodloo took a step closer to qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship by taking out the latest edition of Freestyle Friday. Maghsoodloo scored 9/11 en route to victory, suffering only a single loss to one of U...

Three-time national champion GM Wesley So celebrated his 33rd birthday with a win over GM Sam Shankland in the first round of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship, which started in St. Louis on Friday. GMs Jeffery Xiong and Awonder Liang also started ...

GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Tuan Minh Le fended off prodigies and numerous 3000+ rated opponents to win October 8's 3 0 Thursday tournaments outright. Duda dominated the 215-player-strong first tournament and came close to...

Josh Smith, an amateur player with a US Chess rating in the 1800s, is set to play GM Daniil Dubov in a 100-game bullet match with up to $20,000 on the line. But there is a catch: Dubov must win every single game to collect the full amount. The 49...

Europe is about to meet the world's biggest chess creator in person again. IM Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess, is returning to the old continent for his second tour from October 25 to November 10. Fans in six cities can get tickets to see...

A day after becoming the first 3500-rated Chess.com Blitz player in site history, GM Hikaru Nakamura upped his record to 3503 while streaming Titled Tuesday live from Sithonia, Greece, on October 6. Unfortunately for Nakamura, he did not ultimatel...

In a week when GM Hikaru Nakamura pushed Chess.com's blitz record to new heights, it is fitting that he also broke the record for the most Bullet Brawl victories in a single year, albeit with three months to spare. A dominant run in the second hal...

GM Awonder Liang blanked his opposition with 3-0 victories in all the matches to convincingly win the 2026 Seirawan Chess Championship, an event he won in 2024 too. It was a brisk evening for the 23-year-old American GM, who was hardly in any trou...

GM Parham Maghsoodloo scored in the top four in three different 3 0 Thursday Tournaments on October 1. His nine points in the first tournament weren't quite enough to win, as he took second on tiebreaks behind IM Quoc Hy Nguyen. Maghsoodloo domina...

GM Matthias Bluebaum won the return tournament of Freestyle Friday on October 2 with nine points, taking the tournament outright ahead of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Pranav Venkatesh, and SL Narayanan on 8.5/11. Pranav clinched an appearance in next ye...

Freestyle Friday returns to Chess.com this Friday, October 2, resuming the race for places in the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championships. Ten weekly tournaments remain before December's knockout finals, which will award one qualification sp...

GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus are the stars on an October FIDE rating list dominated by the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand. Abdusattorov climbed two spots to world number-five after picking up 18 rating points and individual ...

A man from Melbourne has been charged over an alleged stalking campaign against Australian chess streamer and content creator WCM Hannah Sayce, which reportedly included making false drug allegations and led to her detention in Qatar. Shumsheer S...

9z Globant, a team with 962 participants, took first place in the first Chess Club Showdown on Wednesday, September 30. The event featured nine esports teams, ranging in size from 151 to 1142 members. Everyone played a two-hour arena of five-minut...

The 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov says security services in the U.S. warned him and a fellow Russian opposition figure that their lives were in danger and that they should take precautions. His statement comes one day after a report by ...

British chess sensation FM Bodhana Sivanandan has made history again. The 11-year-old completed the requirements for the Woman Grandmaster title at the 46th Women's Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, becoming the youngest player ever to do s...

The 12th edition of GM Judit Polgar's traditional annual Global Chess Festival was staged on September 26 in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. Judit took on five different communities in a simultaneous display, scoring 3.5-1.5, with three ...