Four players—GMs Nana Dzagnidze, Harika Dronavalli, Mariya Muzychuk, and Tan Zhongyi—sit atop the standings on 1.5/2 at the Cairns Cup 2024 after Dzagnidze and Harika won their respective games against IM Anna Zatonskih and GM Alexandr...
GM Daniel Naroditsky has added another Bullet Brawl trophy to his ever-growing cabinet after winning his second straight event ahead of GMs Andrew Tang, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and 171 other titled players. Playing 76 games in two hours, Naroditsky acc...
FM Banh Gia Huy has booked his spot at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad for team Vietnam after winning the country's national championship in March. Huy has since crossed the 2400 FIDE rating threshold, leaving him one norm shy of the coveted IM title...
Days after his second-place finish in the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship, GM Daniel Naroditsky finished atop June's first Bullet Brawl ahead of rival GMs Tuan Minh Le and Andrew Tang. After scoring 236 points in a run that included a precision...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reaffirmed his status as the king of Bullet Brawl after going 74 games without a single loss during Saturday's arena. With 70 wins, four draws, no losses, and 269 points to his name, Nakamura was the deserving winner of the ...
Kansas City Chiefs' safety Justin Reid was crowned the winner of BlitzChamps III after sweeping Cardinals' quarterback Kyler Murray 2-0 in the Grand Final of an eight-player double-elimination bracket on Wednesday. Outplaying BlitzChamps I winner ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is Bullet Brawl's latest victor after he dispatched GM Jose Martinez in a winner-takes-all final game during Saturday's two-hour arena. Finishing on 246 points, Bortnyk built a 25-game win streak when it mattered most, ca...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's commanding Bullet Brawl run continued after the now-24-time winner picked up his third straight $400 first prize on Saturday. Facing a field of bullet chess titans including GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Nihal Sarin, and Daniel Narod...
GM Hikaru Nakamura secured his second straight Bullet Brawl and $400 after scoring 251 points ahead of GMs Jose Martinez and Daniel Naroditsky on Saturday. With this victory, Nakamura has taken his live Bullet Brawl earnings to just over $10,000 i...
GM Hikaru Nakamura triumphantly returned to the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday, scoring 74.5/76 en route to a resounding victory ahead of 150 titled players. Boasting a score of 288, Nakamura finished with a 14-point buffer separating him from GM ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky secured a comprehensive victory in the 49th edition of Bullet Brawl on Saturday, scoring 276 points on his way to the $400 first prize after scoring 75.5/84. Well behind Naroditsky but still posting a commanding score of 235 w...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won the latest iteration of Bullet Brawl after posting a 28-game winning streak and overtaking GM Jose Martinez in the dying minutes of the two-hour arena. Finishing on 247 points with 68 wins, five draws, and 11 losses, Bortn...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. On the white side of the Berlin Defense, he dispatched GM Vidit Gujrathi. Draws on the remaining three boards leave GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky netted $400 and his second Bullet Brawl victory in a row on Saturday after scoring 260 points ahead of 122 other titled players. Scoring 72 wins in 83 games, Naroditsky put a healthy buffer between himself and second and third...
Daniel Naroditsky took the $400 first prize in March's final Bullet Brawl on Saturday, winning 73 games en route to a mammoth score of 261. Claiming his fourth title of the year and 14th in Bullet Brawl history, Naroditsky emphatically finished 27...
The state of Missouri has stamped its supremacy on collegiate chess after Saint Louis University won the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) final against Webster University and the University of Missouri (Mizzou) secured victory in their third-pla...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's Bullet Brawl rampage continued on Saturday with another $400 performance in a two-hour arena that featured the likes of GMs Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer. Scoring 232, the 2024 Candidates Tournament hopeful was challenged ...
The semifinalists for the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) have been decided after The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) staved off a late comeback by the National Technical University of Athens, while the University of Missouri (Miz...
GM Hikaru Nakamura posted a commanding 307 score and confirmed his 20th Bullet Brawl title on Saturday after outpacing his rivals GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Andrew Tang by margins of 59 and 69 points respectively. Winning $400 for his efforts ahe...
Maryland Terrapins defensive back Chantz Harley took top honors in the sixth installment of BlitzChamps after defeating fellow back Dante Trader Jr. in the fourth game of their finals match with a "Hail Mary" pawn promotion that secured the title....
The Chess.com community celebrated International Women's Day on Friday with a roundtable discussion featuring leading female voices in chess as well as a two-hour blitz arena, which was won by Mexico's NM Emilio Hernandez. The discussion, led by...
GM Daniel Naroditsky secured his 13th Bullet Brawl title and $400 on Saturday ahead of 160 titled players with a score of 237 and, most importantly, outpacing his nemesis GM Hikaru Nakamura who finished on 236. GM Jose Martinez's lofty score of ...
A single point and mere seconds decided the latest edition of Bullet Brawl after GM Andrew Tang executed a 15-move win to steal the $400 first prize from GM Daniel Naroditsky in Saturday's event. Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk wasn't ...
In a Bullet Brawl showdown between two of the quickest players in chess, GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Andrew Tang, Naroditsky came out on top on Saturday. Claiming his 12th title and the $400 first prize, the U.S. commentator scored 247 points in the...
