GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday with 10 points from 11 rounds, defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in round seven to secure his sixth tournament victory. Carlsen finished second with 9.5 points after…
August 08, 2025
OpenAI o3 defeated Grok 4 in the final to win the Kaggle Game Arena Chess Exhibition Tournament 2025. The tournament featured eight leading Large Language Models competing in chess from August 5-7.
August 07, 2025
GM Amin Tabatabaei won the early Titled Tuesday tournament with 10 points from 11 games, while GM Parham Maghsoodloo claimed the late session victory with an identical score. Three Iranian players—Ta…
August 06, 2025
Liquid.Magnus Carlsen defeated Alireza Firouzja 2-0 in sets to win the Esports World Cup 2025 Grand Final and claim the $250,000 first prize. Carlsen won the first set 4-2 and the second set 3-1 in t…
August 01, 2025
GM Vladislav Artemiev won his first Freestyle Friday with 10 points from 11 rounds, defeating GM Sam Sevian in the final round to complete an eight-game winning streak. GM Aleksei Sarana finished sec…
Magnus Carlsen defeated Nihal Sarin 3-1 in the Esports World Cup 2025 quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals. Nihal Sarin is well known for his outstanding results in speed chess
July 31, 2025
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Levon Aronian 3-2 in the Esports World Cup 2025 quarterfinals after a five-game battle. The match remained tied at 2-2 after four games before Nakamura secured victory in the…
Alireza Firouzja eliminated Nodirbek Abdusattorov from the Esports World Cup 2025 quarterfinals with a 3-1 victory.
Gen.G.Arjun Erigaisi defeated Aurora.Ian Nepomniachtchi 2-1 in the Esports World Cup 2025 quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals. Arjun will face Alireza Firouzja in the next round after the Team…
Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nihal Sarin, Hikaru Nakamura and Nodirbek Abdusattorov survived elimination matches to secure the final four quarterfinal spots at Esports World Cup 2025. Andrey Esipenko, Maxime …
July 30, 2025
Andrey Esipenko revealed his connection to Chess.com dates back to when he was 10 years old and possibly among the platform's earliest sponsored players. The Russian GM reflected on his online chess …
GM Maksim Chigaev dominated the early Title Tuesday tournament with 10 points from 11 games, while GM Saleh Salem secured the late session victory with 9.5 points. Both grandmasters earned $1,000 fir…
July 29, 2025
The first day of Esports World Cup 2025 chess group stage concluded with Levon Aronian, Alireza Firouzja, Arjun Erigaisi and Magnus Carlsen winning their upper bracket winners matches to secure the f…
Magnus Carlsen defeated Nodirbek Abdusattorov 1.5-0.5 and Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat Fabiano Caruana 1.5-0.5 in the Esports World Cup 2025 Group D upper bracket initial matches. Both winners advance to …
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Javokhir Sindarov 2-0 and Alireza Firouzja beat Wei Yi 2-0 in the Esports World Cup 2025 Group C upper bracket initial matches. Both winners advance to the Group C upper brac…
Arjun Erigaisi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their initial matches in Group B upper bracket. Winners match scheduled for July 29. Anish Giri 0.5 - 1.5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Nihal Sarin 0 - 2 Arjun …
Levon Aronian defeated Vladislav Artemiev 2-1 and Andrey Esipenko beat Ian Nepomniachtchi 1-0 in the Esports World Cup 2025 Group A upper bracket initial matches. Both winners advance to the Group A …
Esports World Cup 2025 Chess competition starts today with eight upper bracket initial matches featuring the world's top 16 players competing for the $1.5 million prize pool. The opening matches begi…
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his first Freestyle Friday with 9 points from 11 rounds, finishing ahead of GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tiebreaks. GM Magnus Carlsen finished fourth with 8…
July 25, 2025
All drew in in Game 1 of the semifinals of the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025.
July 22, 2025
