GM Benjamin Bok won Freestyle Friday on March 20, becoming the 25th different player to win the event. He also became the fifth different winner in the first five weeks of the Freestyle Friday Championship. Bok’s 9.5 points out of 11 were enough t…
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…
For the first time since January, GM Hikaru Nakamura took part in and won an edition of Bullet Brawl, keeping his 100% win rate in 2026 intact. The Bullet Brawl king scored 52.5/65 for a total of 172 puan, 20 points more than the second placed G…
GM Sina Movahed, the 15-year-old Iranian grandmaster coming off of victory in the Under-16 ChessKid Youth Championship, became the first player to score 10.5 points in a Titled Tuesday in 2026 on March 10, going to wire-to-wire to win the tourname…