R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh are ranked second and third in the 2025 FIDE Circuit Standings after finishing as the top two ...

In the first big chess tournament of 2025, the best players in the world are all closely bunched together near the top of the standings of ... how Gukesh had won the Candidates tournament last ...

The Women's Candidates Tournament determines the challenger for the World Chess Championship. Reflecting on her bronze at the Blitz World Championship, Vaishali said the result was especially ...

Chess's evolution will ... it is only a four-day tournament, that finishes more than a month before the first qualification tournament for the Candidates - the FIDE Grand Swiss - begins.

The Indian No. 1 finished on top of the standings with ... at the 2022 Women's World Blitz Chess Championship and came close to winning the Women's Candidates Tournament in 2024, finishing with ...

The world champion leads compatriot Praggnanandhaa and Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tie break criteria. Can he hold on?