Titled Tuesday on March 17 was decided on the clock, as GM Nihal Sarin took home the victory with a final-round win over GM Nils Grandelius, with just 0.7 seconds remaining when Grandelius’ time expired in a drawn rook ending. Nihal started 8/8 an…
A little more than three years ago, in December of 2022, Chess.com reached 100 million members. It was a huge milestone at the time, and it still is, but now we are celebrating an even bigger number: a quarter of a billion. It’s the 250,000,000 ch…
India’s GM Nihal Sarin was the only unbeaten player as he won the final Play-In of the 2026 Chess.com Open and made what he joked was “a very tough choice” to play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and not GM Magnus Carlsen in the Playoffs. The playe…