GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and Arjun Erigaisi picked up their first wins of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to reach a five-way tie for the lead with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Andy Woodward. Erdogmus is up to 2711.9 and wo…
A new book by best-selling author Ben Mezrich offers the most detailed account yet of the controversy between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, revealing new details behind what became the biggest scandal in modern chess. In Checkmate: Genius…
No one has ever won all three 3 0 Thursday blitz tournaments on the same day, but GM Arjun Erigaisi nearly changed that on May 14, finishing just short on tiebreaks from a perfect hat-trick of victories. Arjun dominated the first tournament, winni…