10/25/2025 – FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has announced that recent public statements made by GM Vladimir Kramnik, both before and after the death of GM Daniel Naroditsky, will be referred to the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission for review. In a statement emphasising respect, dignity and accountability within the chess community, Dvorkovich reaffirmed FIDE's commitment to act against harassment or bullying and to uphold integrity and humanity as guiding principles of the sport.

10/24/2025 – The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Hans Niemann are the highest-rated players in the open, while Carissa Yip, Alice Lee and Tatev Abrahamyan head the women's field. | Follow the action live starting at 19.00 CEST (13.00 ET, 22.30 IST)

10/24/2025 – The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam 2025 will conclude in South Africa with a final event from 8 to 11 December. At the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in the Western Cape Province, eight of the world's best players, including Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, will compete both for the tournament victory and the series title. | Photo: Freestyle Chess/ Grootbos

10/24/2025 – The penultimate round of the US Championships saw both Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So claim crucial victories, ensuring the race for the national title will go down to the wire. Caruana's marathon win over Abhimanyu Mishra kept him half a point ahead of So, who also prevailed after a long battle against Dariusz Swiercz. Meanwhile, among the women, Carissa Yip moved to within touching distance of her fourth national title - and her third in a row - after defeating Nazi Paikidze. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

10/24/2025 – Exactly one year ago, Robert Ris released an Underdog episode titled: 9-Year-Old Girl Defeats WIM Mariam Mkyrtchyan. Now, that same girl—Bodhana Sivanandan—is 10 years old, and once again finds herself the underdog, this time facing none other than GM Mariya Muzychuk! It appears that opponents whose names include the letters “MKYC” and “H” tend to inspire brilliancies from Bodhana. The young English prodigy is clearly on a mission to make sure that by 2026, no one will dare call her an underdog any more.

10/24/2025 – The battle for the European Club Cup title tightened as Alkaloid (pictured, right) and SuperChess pulled ahead with perfect 10/10 match points. Both teams scored 4–2 victories, defeating Novy Bor and Bayegan Pendik respectively, and will now meet in a crucial penultimate-round clash. In the women's section, Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo maintained their flawless run by narrowly beating Crvena Zvezda, while Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica moved into clear second after a dominant win over Tajfun SK Ljubljana. | Photo: Patricia Claros

10/23/2025 – Last Sunday, the family of 29-year-old American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky announced his passing. No cause of death was given. Now, a major controversy has broken out: former world champion Vladimir Kramnik is being accused of harassing Naroditsky with suspicion of cheating. It is far too early to come to any conclusion in this matter, but the story has been splashed over international straight newspapers and channels.

10/23/2025 – With two rounds remaining in the US Chess Championships, Fabiano Caruana has taken the outright lead after defeating Sam Shankland in round nine. The only other decisive result in the open section came from Hans Niemann, who ended a difficult stretch by beating Awonder Liang. In the women's championship, Anna Zatonskih brought Alice Lee's sole lead to an end with a key victory, while Carissa Yip also won to create a three-way tie at the top. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

10/23/2025 – Vincent Keymer raised his live Elo rating to 2771.7 with his third victory in three games at the European Club Cup in Rhodes. He is currently fourth in the world rankings, just ahead of Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi, who he will play against in the fifth round of the European Club Cup. | Photo: Gerd Densing

10/23/2025 – After four rounds of the European Club Cup in Batumi, Alkaloid (pictured, right), Novy Bor and SuperChess share the lead in the open section with perfect 8/8 match points. Limhamns from Sweden have emerged as the surprise contenders after defeating MTK Budapest. In the women's event, Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo are the sole leaders with a flawless 8/8 record, followed by Tajfun SK Ljubljana, Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica and Crvena Zvezda two match points behind. | Photo: Patricia Claros

10/22/2025 – We take a unique behind-the-scenes look at how top chess masters organize their digital workspace. Grandmasters and trainers like Svitlana Demchenko, Robert Ris, Michael Prusikin, Harald Schneider-Zinner, Frederik Svane, Felix Blohberger, and Dorian Rogozenco share their screens to reveal their personal ChessBase 18 setups — from meticulously clean desktops to chaotic databases full of ideas. They show us their board designs, current projects, and discuss their favourite or most-used ChessBase functions, offering fascinating insights into how great minds prepare, study, and work with chess.

10/22/2025 – Did you find the only move in this very famous study, composed almost exactly a century ago, that allows White to draw? It looks like the stupidest move one could make – move the king to a square that takes it further away from the black pawn and blocks the promotion of his own pawn. Problem expert Werner Keym selected six studies in similar style for you to solve. Here, today, are the solutions.