Samarkand's Disability Olympiad Echoes Belgrade's First Steps
The third FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities opened in Samarkand with 41 teams beginning play in Round 1, and the ceremonial first move fell to…
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Topalov's Clutch Chess Lead Echoes His Old Kasparov Duels
Garry Kasparov has spent much of his post-retirement career being the one who makes other legends sweat. On the first day of the 2026 Clutch Chess: The…
Samarkand Links Ancient Ivory Pieces to a Modern Milestone
Uzbekistan has spent the last several years turning itself into one of chess's busiest hosts, and this week it added a genuine first. The 3rd FIDE Chess…
FIDE's Education Summit Follows a Familiar Institutional Playbook
FIDE is folding another standalone event into the calendar of the 46th Chess Olympiad. On 24 September 2026, the federation will hold the FIDE Summit on Chess…
GCL's Lead Swings Back to the Gambits on Day 5
The Global Chess League table has a habit of flipping on its head every couple of days, and Wednesday in Bengaluru was no exception. FYERS American Gambits…
FIDE's New Athletes Commission Echoes the IOC's Playbook
FIDE has opened the call for candidates for the upcoming elections to its Athletes Commission, a body meant to give players a formal seat at the table when the…
Nigel Short's Last Continent Is Antarctica
Nigel Short has spent more than four decades collecting chess milestones, but until now, one gap remained on his personal map. This Antarctic summer, six…
Carlsen's Escape Extends Old Nepomniachtchi Pattern
Magnus Carlsen needed an escape act to keep his Global Chess League team perfect, and the man on the other side of the board was the opponent who has given him…
Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi Meet Again, but This Time Board Six Matters More Than They Do
The last time Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi sat across a board with real stakes attached, it ended with a five-hour, 136-move slog in Dubai that broke…
Deekshitha's Record Gain Shows How Fast the FIDE Rating List Can Move
The September FIDE rating list carries the usual reshuffling at the top. Wesley So is back in the world top 5 for the first time in nearly four years, off a…
The Torch Passes Again: Sindarov's Win Over Anand Echoes a Familiar Chess Story
Javokhir Sindarov's opening day at the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League produced one of those results that chess fans have seen before, just with the…
India Used To Have One World-Class Player. Now It Has A Bench.
For most of the last three decades, Indian chess meant one name. Viswanathan Anand carried the country's ambitions almost single-handedly from the early 1990s…
Renato Terry's Bullet Arena Dominance Echoes Titled Tuesday's Nakamura Era
Eighteen. That's how many 3+0 Thursday titles IM Renato Terry has now collected after his 9.5/11 performance in the day's final event, a number that starts to…
Faustino Oro and the Ever-Shrinking Youngest-GM Record
Faustino Oro's confirmation as a grandmaster at 12 doesn't break the all-time record for youngest GM ever. That mark still belongs to American Abhimanyu…
Nakamura's 65th Bullet Brawl Win Is the Latest Chapter in a Two-Decade Bullet Reign
Hikaru Nakamura picked up his 65th career Bullet Brawl title on Saturday, his 16th of 2026 alone, scoring 51/65 for 170 points and finishing 23 points clear of…
Why Kasparov vs. Topalov in Chess960 Feels Like Unfinished Business
Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov are set to meet again, this time at the Saint Louis Chess Club for Clutch Chess: The Legends, a $144,000 Chess960 match…
How Anna Muzychuk Went From Boycotting Saudi Arabia to Booking a Spot in Saint-Tropez
Bibisara Assaubayeva and Anna Muzychuk have punched their tickets to the 2026 WR Women's Chess Tour Grand Final by winning the tour's European leg in…
Caruana's Italian Job: An Old Opening Finds New Teeth in the Grand Chess Tour Finals
Fabiano Caruana didn't need a novelty from the computer age to take the first game of his 2026 Grand Chess Tour Finals title match against Praggnanandhaa…
Eastern Asia's Youngest Players Just Wrote Another Chapter in the Region's Chess Pipeline
The rapid portion of the Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championship 2026 has wrapped up, with new champions crowned across six separate age categories. According to…
Vereslav Eingorn and the Odesa Chess Lineage He Leaves Behind
FIDE announced this week that Vereslav Eingorn, the Ukrainian grandmaster, coach and author, has died at 69. He was born on 23 November 1956 in Odesa, then…
FIDE's Youth Championships Get New Numbers: What the U7-U17 Shift Really Means
FIDE and the Spanish Chess Federation have opened registration for the FIDE World Youth Chess Championships, inviting national federations to send players in…
Sindarov's Round-Seven Win Echoes His Candidates Surge as Tan Survives a Near-Collapse
The 2026 Sinquefield Cup and Cairns Cup are entering the stretch run in St. Louis, and round seven produced one decisive game in each event, plus a near-miss…
Peru's Saco Oliveros Academy Turns a School Chess Title Into a Statement of Method
The American Continental Stage of the FIDE ISCF World Schools Team Championship 2026 wrapped up at the DoubleTree by Hilton Cariari in San José, and the team…