GM Volodar Murzin won Freestyle Friday on May 29 with a wire-to-wire win in which he lost no games, taking the tournament outright on a 10/11 score for his first victory ever in the event. All of the top four spots were won without tiebreaks, in f…
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri took revenge for first-half losses to shake up the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament standings. Nakamura’s first win of the event came against GM Fabiano Caruana, who was caught in second place after Giri outplayed…
GM Levon Aronian lost the first rapid game of The American Cup 2026 Elimination Final, but came back in the second game to even the score against GM Fabiano Caruana. He then won the match in blitz tiebreaks and will face GM Wesley So in the Grand …
GM Dmitry Andreikin has been crowned as the winner of the 2026 Chess.com King of the Hill Championship on Friday, marking the first time that a former super-GM has won a Chess.com Community Chess Championship event.  In the wake of a match …
“That was a fun game, for sure!” said GM Magnus Carlsen after risking the Benoni to beat GM Nils Grandelius and join the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament leaders after round two. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov let a winning position slip three times a…