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Baadur Jobava won the Georgian Chess Championship for a fourth time in his career after scoring 7/9 points at the 2024 edition of the event, which ended earlier this week. The tournament took place in Tbilisi from January 29 to February 7 as a 10-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Nikolozi Kacharava and defending champion Mikheil Mchedlishvili finished in shared second place with 5½ points each. Kachavara took home the silver medal based on tiebreak criteria. | Photos:...

Shocking results were seen on the fifth day of action at the FIDE World Cup in Baku. In the open, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov were knocked out by players in the 2500-2600 rating band — Vahap Sanal and Tin Jingyao (pictured) respectively — while sixth seed Wesley So barely escaped with a draw to take his match against Emre Can to tiebreaks. In the women’s section, Yan Tianqi and Maili-Jade Ouellet surprisingly won on demand to even the score against Alexandra Kosteniuk a...

Am Freitag endete die 82. Georgische Landesmeisterschaft in Tiflis mit einem Sieg von Mikheil Mchedlishvili (Foto). Das Turnier wurde mit zehn Spielern im Modus jeder gegen jeden gespielt. Mchedlishvili kam als einziger Spieler auf 7 Punkte. Giga Quparadze wurde Zweiter vor Tornike Sanikidze. | Fotos: Georgischer Schachverband

The 2017 World Rapid and Blitz Championship took place on December 26-30 in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. The rapid tournament, which included 134 participants, saw Vishy Anand beating Vladimir Fedoseev in a blitz tiebreak after tying for first place with 10½/15 points. Anand, at 47, outscored his younger opponents, including world champion and rapid-play specialist Magnus Carlsen. | Photo: Official website

WGM Janelle Frayna The Philippines suffered heartbreaking losses to Hungary in the women’s division and Georgia in men’s via identical 2.5-1.5 results in the ninth round Sunday night that dealt a big blow to their bids for a top 10 finish in the 44th World Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India. Wom

Chennai, Jun 11: Rahul Srivatshav P of Telangana has become India’s 74th Grandmaster, achieving the title after breaking the 2500 (Elo points) barrier in live FIDE ratings during the 9th Cattolica Chess Festival 2022 in Italy. The 19-year old player reached the 2500 Elo live rating mark after drawing his 8th round game against Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia in the Cattolica event. His current Elo rating is 2468. Srivatshav had already secured five GM norms and achieved the title when he cro...

Alireza Firouzja beat Markus Ragger and climbed back to world no. 4 on the live rating list as he made his debut in a 3:1 victory for France over A...