Two newly-released clips from Netflix’s upcoming Untold: Chess Mates documentary offer glimpses into both sides of the Carlsen vs. Niemann saga, featuring candid reflections from GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hans Niemann, and Hikaru Nakamura, just days ahead of the film’s premiere. The documentary, which revisits the controversy between Carlsen and Niemann that shook the chess world…
The Collegiate Chess League Spring 2026 Season Playoffs are upon us, and you can join in on the excitement by predicting who wins! Will SLU defend their championship title, or will UT Dallas get their revenge and their first ever CCL Championship? Will Mizzou make their way back to the top? Tell us what you…
19 players are still on a perfect score after three rounds in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, including big names such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hans Niemann, and Vincent Keymer. In round 3, Carlsen seemed to be close to dropping his first half-point when the strong-playing GM Maxime Lagarde blundered and lost after…
IM Renato Terry won the first Freestyle Friday of April by a full point, scoring 9.5/11. Even with the FIDE Candidates and the Grenke Chess Festival occurring at the same time, the Freestyle Friday Championship continued apace, and Terry moved into second place on the leaderboard behind only GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. Terry became the first…
For the second time in as many weeks, GM Jose Martinez notched two 3 0 Thursday victories in one day, earning himself $800 in prize money. Martinez posted scores of 9.5/11 in both events to claim first place outright, and lost only a single game in 22 rounds. The third tournament was won by IM…
GM Javokhir Sindarov’s dream run continued after GM Hikaru Nakamura thought for 67 minutes on move 13, chose badly, and sank without a trace in round five of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Sindarov, now world number-five, is on 4.5/5, with only GM Fabiano Caruana within a point after delivering checkmate to end the unbeaten…
As the only two players still on a perfect 5/5 score in the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open, GMs Hans Niemann and Vincent Keymer will be playing each other on top board in Sunday morning’s sixth round. Behind them is a group of six players on 4.5/5: GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen, Alexey Sarana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov,…
IM Renato Terry blazed to a second straight Bullet Brawl victory on Saturday after triumphing over GM Jose Martinez in a sprint to the finish. Martinez and Terry were neck and neck for most of the second half until a 10-game winning streak saw the latter leapfrog his rival. Terry will receive $400 for his victory,…
Peruvian IM Renato Terry achieved a groundbreaking feat after pulling off the first Chess.com titled arena trifecta by taking out Saturday’s Bullet Brawl. Terry held his nerve and streaked his way to 156 points, outdoing the second-through-fourth place-getters: GMs Arjun Erigaisi, IM Faustino Oro, and GM Emin Ohanyan. The top four will receive $400, $250,…
Once again it was all about GM Javokhir Sindarov in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament as the Uzbek star won a difficult position against GM Wei Yi to move to a mind-blowing 5.5/6. He leads his closest pursuer GM Fabiano Caruana by 1.5 points after GM Andrey Esipenko held the U.S. champion to a draw….