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…
Ukrainian WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the most remarkable upsets of European championship history, winning the European Women’s Championship outright in Batumi, Georgia. The 15-year-old entered the tournament as the 76th seed in a fi…