GM Vincent Keymer won Freestyle Friday on May 8 by a full point, scoring 9.5/11 ahead of IM Marco Materia and GM Pranav Venkatesh. Keymer only scored 0.5/2 against Materia and Pranav individually, but won every other game to become the first playe…
GM Arjun Erigaisi ground out a 67-move win over GM Zhu Jiner to go into the final round of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament as the sole leader on 4.5/6. GM Magnus Carlsen is half a point back after using the King’s Indian Defense to take dow…
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…
As we enter the last week of Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star voting, you can now play chess against MLS star Dejan Joveljić! A dangerous player on the field, Joveljić also knows how to score over the chessboard. With a jaw-dropping 2217 rating,…