Li, 16, Takes Women's Title as So Stumbles, Caruana Forces Playoff
Wesley So walked into the last round of the U.S. Championship a full point clear. He walked out in a playoff. GM Sam Sevian outplayed So in a heavy-piece…
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Novy Bor and SuperChess Meet in Round 6 With 10/10 Each
Two teams are left on a perfect 10/10 match points in the open section of the European Club Cup in Budva, and they now play each other. After five rounds, Novy…
Ohanyan Wins Atyrau Masters on Buchholz After Tie With Jiang, 15
Armenian GM Emin Ohanyan won the Atyrau Masters after finishing level on 7/9 with 15-year-old Chinese IM Jiang Haochen. The tiebreak decided it: Ohanyan's…
Abdusattorov, Giri and Erdogmus All Lose in Club Cup Round 4
Round four of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup was hard on the big names. GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus all lost, to GMs Aydin…
So Draws Niemann in Under an Hour, One Round From a Fourth Title
Wesley So needed very little time on Round 10 day. He drew Hans Niemann in under an hour and kept a full-point lead over Fabiano Caruana and Grigoriy Oparin in…
Eleven Teams Perfect After Round 3, Beer Sheva Slip Against Dunajska Streda
After three rounds of the European Club Cup, eleven teams share first place in the open section on 6/6 match points. Every team seeded first through twelfth is…
So Holds Caruana to a Draw and Keeps His Full-Point Lead
Wesley So held onto his full-point lead in round nine of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship by getting through defending champion Fabiano Caruana. It was a…
Murzin's Swindle Keeps Bayegan Pendik Clear After a Top-Board Loss
The favorites kept cruising in round two of the European Chess Club Cup, with GMs Wei Yi, Arjun Erigaisi and Richard Rapport among the stars to reach 2/2. The…
So Beats Woodward in a Pawn Ending, Leads Caruana by a Point
Wesley So has beaten Andy Woodward in a pawn endgame in round eight of the U.S. Championship. That puts him on 6/8, a full point clear of Fabiano Caruana, and…
Total Chess Rating Puts Carlsen at 2830, 51 Points Clear
Total Chess has proposed a Total Chess Rating, a single figure that folds a player's classical, rapid and blitz FIDE ratings into one number on the familiar…
Favourites Sweep as Grandelius Falls on Day One of the European Club Cup
The 41st European Chess Club Cup began in Budva, Montenegro, on Saturday, and round one went much as the seedings said. The top three teams all won 6-0, even…
So Takes Sole Lead on 5/7 as Liang Falls in 27 Moves
Wesley So is now the only unbeaten player and the sole leader of the 2026 U.S. Chess Championship. He fought back from a worse position to beat Ray Robson in…
Uzbekistan Tops the Olympiad Route to the 2027 World Cup
FIDE has published the final allocation of 2027 World Cup and Women's World Cup places earned at the Samarkand Olympiad. After the continental transfers, 83…
Sameh Meets Top Seed Kuandykuly After a 6/6 Start at the World U13
Egypt's IM Abdalrahman Sameh Mohamed has won all six of his games in the Under-13 Open at the 2026 World U7-U17 Championships in Roquetas de Mar, Spain. After…
Atyrau Masters: Two Seeds Fall, Anand and Ahmad Lead on 3/3
The Atyrau Masters, the third stage of the Kazakhstan Chess Cup, lost its two highest-rated players within two rounds. Vietnamese GM Nguyen Duc Hoa (2405) beat…
Caruana and Liang Join a Four-Way Lead After Round 6
Six decisive games on Thursday reshuffled both U.S. Championships at the halfway point. In the Open, GMs Wesley So, Andy Woodward, Fabiano Caruana and Awonder…
Fast Classical Debuts at a 721-Player Youth Worlds in Spain
The 2026 FIDE World Championships U7–U17 opened on October 13 in Roquetas de Mar, in Spain's Almería province, with 721 players from 82 countries. The event…
Roman Shogdzhiev, 11, Is One GM Norm From Mishra's Record
IM Roman Shogdzhiev, 11, scored his second GM norm on Monday in the Serbian Super League. He now needs one more norm and 29 rating points to pass GM Abhimanyu…
Woodward Beats Caruana as Eight of 12 Games Are Decisive
Round 5 of the 2026 U.S. Championships was the bloodiest round yet across both tournaments: eight of the 12 games were decisive. The biggest result came in the…
Caruana Joins So in the Lead as Liang Falls to Xiong
Round four of the U.S. Championship in Saint Louis was a day for long endgames, and it reshaped both sections. Fabiano Caruana beat Ray Robson to join Wesley…
Caruana Wins Titled Tuesday on a U.S. Championship Rest Day
Fabiano Caruana won Titled Tuesday on October 13 on what was an off day in the 2026 U.S. Championship, where he currently shares the tournament lead. He…
Jumabayev Wins Fagernes as Gloeckler Secures a Second GM Norm
Kazakh grandmaster Rinat Jumabayev won the Fagernes International Autumn on tiebreak, finishing on 7½/10 as the only unbeaten player in the 62-player GM…
Woodward and Shankland Win as So and Liang Stay Level at 2.5
The top of the U.S. Championship open section did not change in round three. Wesley So and Awonder Liang met head-on and drew in 30 moves without much action,…
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Armageddon to Win Shenzhen
Yu Yangyi won the Shenzhen Nanshan International Chess Masters 2026 by beating Ding Liren in an Armageddon game with the white pieces, after a final that could…
Viernheim Lead Baden-Baden on Board Points After Three Bundesliga Rounds
Two clubs won everything on the opening weekend of the German Bundesliga. SC Viernheim and OSG Baden-Baden each took 6 match points from three rounds, played…
Maghsoodloo Takes Freestyle Friday on 9/11 Among 112 Masters
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the latest Freestyle Friday with 9/11, and the result moves him a step closer to qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World…
So and Liang Lead Open at 2/2, Bottom Seeds Top the Women
Round two of the 2026 U.S. Championships thinned the leaders in both sections. In the Open, GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang both won again and sit on 2/2, down…
Dubov Needs 100 Wins, a Club Player Needs Just Half a Point
The most interesting thing about this match is the scoring, not the players. Josh Smith, a 49-year-old Arizona businessman rated in the 1800s by US Chess, is…
Gloeckler, 14, Leads Fagernes on 6/7 With Three Rounds Left
Fourteen-year-old German IM Christian Gloeckler beat Austrian IM Lukas Dotzer in round seven of the Fagernes Autumn Tournament and moved to 6/7, keeping sole…
Artemiev Beats Nakamura in the Final Round of Titled Tuesday
Hikaru Nakamura came to Titled Tuesday on October 6 as the first player to reach 3500 in Chess.com blitz, and he left it with a record of 3503 but without the…
Six Players Share the Lead After Two Rounds in Fagernes
Two rounds into the Fagernes International Autumn Tournament, six players share first place with perfect scores. The GM Swiss is running from 3 to 11 October…
Nakamura Wins a Fourth Straight Bullet Brawl With a Score of 155
GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed the $400 first prize at Bullet Brawl for the fourth week in a row, finishing the two-hour arena on 155 points. The win also gives…
Bluebaum Wins the Freestyle Friday Opener on 9 Points
GM Matthias Bluebaum opened the new Freestyle Friday season on October 2 by winning the tournament outright with nine points. Three players followed on 8.5/11:…
Caruana Heads a 12-Player U.S. Championship Field in Saint Louis
The Saint Louis Chess Club has announced the fields for the 2026 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Chess Championship. Each event has 12 players, competing…
Sindarov Within Two Points of Caruana After Samarkand
The first FIDE list since the Samarkand Olympiad, reviewed by ChessBase, reshuffles the middle of the top ten while leaving the very top untouched. Magnus…
Judit Polgar Drops a Game to Pietro's Community in Budapest
Judit Polgar's annual festival in Budapest has a habit of being comfortable for the host, so this year's result stands out. At the 12th Global Chess Festival,…
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Becomes Youngest WGM in History
England put its youngest player on top board at the Women's Olympiad in Samarkand, and Bodhana Sivanandan, aged 11, finished with 8/11 and the third norm she…
Wesley So Starts 7/7 and Wins Titled Tuesday Outright
GM Wesley So won Titled Tuesday on September 29, starting 7/7 and finishing on 9.5 points. It was his first victory in the weekly event this year. The finish…
Nakamura Wins Bullet Brawl Again, This Time by 25 Points
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Bullet Brawl for the third consecutive week on September 26, finishing with 172 points, 25 clear of the field. It was his 68th Bullet…
Madaminov's Unbeaten 5.5/7 Seals Uzbekistan's Second Gold
Uzbekistan won the Open section of the 2026 Chess Olympiad on home soil in Samarkand, beating Ukraine 2.5-1.5 in the final round to claim the country's second…
Uzbekistan Crowned as Samarkand Olympiad Closes in Fireworks
Two weeks of chess in Samarkand ended the way only a Central Asian host nation could close it: with medals, national anthems, opera, and finally fireworks and…
Uzbekistan's Lead Holds as Ding Liren Blunders in Round 10
The penultimate round in Samarkand did what penultimate rounds are supposed to do: it separated genuine medal contenders from teams just hanging on. Uzbekistan…
Carlsen Edges Nakamura on Tiebreaks in 3+0 Thursday
They aren't playing in the ongoing Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, but that didn't stop GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura from showing up for the debut…
Uzbekistan Retakes the Lead as So Stuns Sindarov
A day earlier, Germany had ended Uzbekistan's perfect 7/7 start and looked ready to make a real run at gold. Round nine flipped the script entirely. Uzbekistan…
Germany Ends Uzbekistan's 7/7 Run in Samarkand
Uzbekistan had won every match so far at the 46th Chess Olympiad, and it took a full family effort to stop them. Germany beat the tournament leaders 2.5-1.5 in…
Uzbekistan Pulls Two Matches Clear as Praggnanandhaa Delivers a Mating Net
Uzbekistan is still perfect. The hosts beat China 3-1 in Round 7 of the 46th Chess Olympiad to reach seven match wins from seven, and Chess.com's own tally…
Yakubboev's Knight Fork Sends Uzbekistan Into Sole Lead
Six rounds into the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, one blunder on board three turned a tense, evenly matched contest into the moment that shaped the whole…
Germany Stuns Top-Seeded USA as Uzbekistan Routs Hungary
Round 5 in Samarkand, the last before the Olympiad's rest day, delivered exactly the kind of chaos organizers probably didn't want on a day that opened with…
Eight Teams Still Perfect After Four Rounds in Samarkand
Four rounds into the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, the field of unbeaten teams has finally started to thin. In the Open section, FIDE reported that China, host…
Argentina's 28th Seed Shocks Ukraine at Samarkand
Round three of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand was supposed to be about the favorites stretching their legs. Instead, the Women's section produced two results…
El Salvador Stuns Cuba as Gukesh Slips Below 2700
Round two of the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand mostly went to script, but one result stood well outside it. El Salvador, seeded 94th in the field, beat…
Liang's Shock Loss and Montenegro's Draw Rattle Samarkand
Round two of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand was supposed to be a settling-in day, with the top seeds simply protecting the points they'd banked in round one.…
Poland's Rollercoaster Ends in Gold at Samarkand
Poland went from a round-one loss to an undefeated title run, claiming gold at the 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities in Samarkand. The…
Erigaisi Falls, but India's Bench Holds at Samarkand
The 46th Chess Olympiad opened in Samarkand with 207 teams in the Open section and 191 in the Women's, and Round 1 played out exactly the way a Swiss-system…
Poland's 4-0 Rout Puts It Alone Atop Samarkand
Poland no longer has to share the top of the table. Going into the penultimate round of the 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities in Samarkand,…
Cuba's Unbeaten Run Ends as Poland and Czechia Share the Lead
Cuba's run at the top of the 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities is over. Round 5 in Samarkand handed Cuba its first match defeat of the…
Cuba Stays Perfect as the Disability Olympiad Nearly Doubles
Cuba is the only team left with a perfect record at the 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities, and it got there the hard way. On Monday in…
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…
Carlsen Returns, But GCL Day One Belongs to Sindarov
Magnus Carlsen walked back into the Global Chess League on Saturday for the first time in a year, and by the end of the night his team, the Alpine APL Pipers,…
How an Estonian IM's Double Upset in Mozambique Became a National Story
Mai Narva doesn't often make international news outside chess circles, but this week she made front pages back home. Estonia's national broadcaster ERR ran a…
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…