A month after winning the FIDE presidency, Timur Turlov has set out a reorganization: new bodies, an Advisory Board and Alina Dvoretskaya as Secretary General. No timeline or budget yet. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

The Ruy Lopez is older than its name: it appears in the Göttingen manuscript, dated around 1490 to 1505. Our new series on chess openings begins with the priest, the Marshall Attack and Kramnik's Berlin Wall. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

"At the end of the day, chess is still chess." — Hikaru Nakamura #chess

FIDE has called an online Extraordinary General Assembly for December 27 at 14:30 CET. The agenda, due by November 27, has not yet been published. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

GM Artem Uskov beat IM Sanjin Culum with the black pieces in 31 moves in round 2 of the 2026 Serbian Second League group Voivodina. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Clutch Chess returns to Saint Louis October 27-29 without Magnus Carlsen. Caruana, Nakamura, Praggnanandhaa and Sindarov play for $425,000, with day-three wins worth triple. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Timur Turlov beat Wadim Rosenstein 110-85 for the FIDE presidency. This autumn both men visited the Maldives' chess community, a federation now under a FIDE-recognized Interim Committee. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

GM Hikaru Nakamura has won his seventh consecutive Bullet Brawl, scoring 178 points ahead of 218 titled players. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, has met the requirements for the International Master title, becoming the youngest woman ever to do so and breaking Judit Polgar's record from 1988. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Hans Niemann won Chess.com's Freestyle Friday on October 23, two days after a U.S. Championship loss to Jeffery Xiong that Chess.com says dropped him out of the 2700 club. He edged Sina Movahed on tiebreaks. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Bayegan Pendik won the European Club Cup on tiebreaks over Novy Bor, both on 13 match points. Monte-Carlo defended the women's title, edging Gambit Bonnevoie on tiebreaks. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

"If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Judit Polgár #chess

GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in 40 moves on board 1 in round 6 of the 41st European Chess Club Cup. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana 1.5-0.5 in a rapid playoff to win his fourth U.S. Championship, a day after losing his lead in the final round. Caruana's bid for a fifth straight title is over. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Javokhir Sindarov calls his World Championship match against Gukesh Dommaraju the toughest event of his life, and says he may not get another chance at the title. The match starts in Geneva on November 24. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

A month after Timur Turlov won the FIDE presidency, Russian prosecutors have dropped their extremism case against him without explanation, and Ukrainian officials are split over Mykhailo Podolyak's FIDE vice presidency. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Lionel Messi posted a chess-themed ChatGPT ad to his 517 million Instagram followers, recommending an opening called Goat Horns: 1.e4 a6 2.d4 c6. Chess.com says top players are unlikely to approve. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Rachael Li, 16, has won the 2026 U.S. Women's Championship on her first try, scoring 8.5/11 as the seventh seed. She is the youngest rookie ever to take the title. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

Rachael Li, 16, drew Anna Zatonskih to win the U.S. Women's Championship outright. In the open, Wesley So lost to Sam Sevian and now faces Fabiano Caruana in a playoff. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…

IM Levy Rozman's new book, How to Win at Chess, Next Level, has made the New York Times bestseller list. His two How to Win at Chess titles hold the top two spots among Amazon's chess books. #chess chessnewsnetwork.com/article…