Chess grandmaster (GM) Baadur Jobava has been temporarily banned from Chess.com’s prize events after going on a racist rant upon losing to a Chinese GM during the Airthings Masters qualifier. On Feb.

Another day, another scandal in the cutthroat world of online chess. On Monday, Chess.com—one of the largest such platforms in the world—said that it would hit a 2578-rated Georgian grandmaster with a ...

GM Baadur Jobava was interviewed by New in Chess (NIC) Magazine last year after he won the gold medal on Board 1 for Georgia with an awe-inspiring 2926 performance in the Baku Olympiad. As NIC ...

Grandmasters Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Alekseev Evegeny of Russia shared the lead with 5.5 points at the end of the seventh round of fifth Dubai Open Chess Championship at the Dubai Chess and ...

The coveted board one individual gold medal in the 170-nation Olympiad at Baku went to a surprise outsider. In an online poll just before play began the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, the US No1, ...

MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So, now the favorite to win it all after top seed and reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen was booted out, will have to take another game to cash in on his chances after ...

Ju Wenjun CHN 2584, three wins six draws three losses, 6.0/12 Aleksandra Goryachkina RUS 2578, three wins six draws three losses, 6.0/12 Regular Match — 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Chess grandmaster Wesley So scored his second victory, a masterful 39-move thrashing of Baadur Jobava to grab a share of second place with two others after six rounds of the Tata ...

The 10th Mikhail Tahl Memorial, the strongest invitational tournament in the year’s third quarter, starts today at the Museum of Russian Impressionism in the Kremlin’s capital city of Moscow. The ...