Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 in Doha, Qatar. It was his ninth world blitz title and the twentieth world ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand showed he remains a force to reckon with in a field increasingly dominated by ...

Bibisara Assaubayeva, the three-time Women’s World Blitz Champion, is one of the most dominant speed chess players of this ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz Championship title earlier this week. Tuesday’s final in New York was locked at ...