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Like clockwork, GM Hikaru Nakamura won his seventh consecutive Bullet Brawl on Saturday, this time scoring 178 points and finishing ahead of 218 titled players.

GM Anish Giri scored a crushing win over GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov as top-seed Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club beat defending champion SuperChess Romania 3.5-2.5 to win the 2026 European Chess Club Cup.

GM Hikaru Nakamura played the GOAT Horns Variation, referencing a recent advertisement featuring soccer star Lionel Messi, on his way to winning the first 3 0 Thursday tournament on October 22.

GM Hans Niemann won his third Freestyle Friday on October 23, scoring nine points and defeating last week's winner, GM Sina Movahed, on tiebreaks, as well as in their individual encounter in round 10.

The extraordinary FM Bodhana Sivanandan has done it again.

GM Magnus Carlsen wants more events that are exciting to watch.

Leaders SuperChess Romania and Novy Bor Chess Club fought out a thrilling draw in round six of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, with wins for GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Bogdan-Daniel Deac balanced out by wins for GMs Nihal Sarin and David Nava...

GM Wesley So won his fourth national title at the 2026 U.S.

Nobody is happier after 11 rounds of the 2026 U.S.

GM Nihal Sarin could afford to take a draw in a won position against GM Wei Yi as GMs David Anton and Pentala Harikrishna gave Novy Bor Chess Club a 4-2 victory over second-seed Alkaloid in round four of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup.

Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi shared a chess-themed ad for ChatGPT with his 517 million Instagram followers on Wednesday, in a post that is bound to generate massive interest.

Think you can dunk on an NBA player at chess?

It's the GM Wesley So show at the 2026 U.S.

GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus all lost in round four of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, falling to GMs Aydin Suleymanli, Pranav Venkatesh, and Karthikeyan Murali respectively.

IM Levy Rozman has another New York Times bestseller.

GM Hikaru Nakamura won a dramatic Titled Tuesday on October 20, taking down GM Alireza Firouzja in the final round to win the event with 9.5/11.

GM Wesley So held onto his full-point lead in round nine of the 2026 U.S.

GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the highest-rated 15-year-old of all time, is now world number-15 on the live rating list after winning a time-trouble battle on his 2026 European Chess Club Cup debut.

The favorites continued to cruise in round two of the 2026 European Chess Club Cup, with GMs Wei Yi, Arjun Erigaisi, and Richard Rapport among the stars to move to 2/2.

After his three wins in the 2026 U.S.

GM Hikaru Nakamura extended the most dominant run in Bullet Brawl history on Saturday, cruising to a resounding 46-point victory with a score of 190 points.

The top teams could rest the likes of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus while still scoring 6-0 clean sweeps in round one of the 41st European Chess Club Cup in Budva, Montenegro.

GM Wesley So remained the only unbeaten player and sole leader of the 2026 U.S.

Grandmasters, the documentary offering an inside look at GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and the struggle over chess's future, has reached movie theaters across the United States.

GM Sina Movahed won Freestyle Friday on October 16, riding a 7/7 start to sole first place on nine points.

GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the first two 3 0 Thursday tournaments on October 15, the first player to win consecutive events since GM Jose Martinez did it in back-to-back weeks in March and April.

Both tournaments are wide open after six decisive games on Thursday.

The last two league champions, Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), are the two undefeated teams after two matches each in the 2026 fall season of the Collegiate Chess League.

Eight out of 12 games were decisive on Wednesday, making it the bloodiest round across both tournaments in this year's 2026 U.S.

IM Roman Shogdzhiev took a major step toward becoming the youngest grandmaster in chess history on Monday, scoring his second GM norm in the Serbian Super League.

GM Fabiano Caruana won Titled Tuesday on October 13 during an off day in the 2026 U.S.

It was a day of endgames in round four of the 2026 U.S.

GMs Wesley So and Awonder Liang continued as joint leaders with 2.5 points after their mutual encounter ended in a draw in the third round of the 2026 U.S.