IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008. The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi…
Three co-leaders, none of them playing each other, all made draws in the final round, but someone still had to win the Titled Tuesday tournament out of GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Hans Niemann, and Parham Maghsoodloo. And that is the order tiebreaks p…
GM Volodar Murzin won Freestyle Friday on May 29 with a wire-to-wire win in which he lost no games, taking the tournament outright on a 10/11 score for his first victory ever in the event. All of the top four spots were won without tiebreaks, in f…