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I am IM: Carissa Yip on Earning Her Final Norm at SPICE

The SPICE Cup is a popular tournament for norm seekers, due to the large number of foreign IMs and GM who typically play. This year’s…

[NEWSFLASH] Abhi Mishra Earns IM Norm #3, “GM Karjakin: I’m Coming.”

Rising superstar Abhimanyu Mishra earned his third IM norm at the GM Maxim Academy Closed event in New York City. Mishra has now, pending processing…

Six Super Games

Information overload. That’s how I feel right now, with two major international events – the FIDE Grand Prix and Grand Chess Tour – going on,…

Ding and Radjabov Advance in World Cup; Xiong Eliminated

Jeffery Xiong’s Cinderella run has come to an end in Khanty-Mansiysk. Xiong lost Tuesday to Teimour Radjabov in the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup,…

Xiong Draws in World Cup’s First Quarterfinal Leg

It has been 13 days since the first moves were played at the 2019 FIDE World Cup. 120 of the 128 competitors have been eliminated,…

And Then There Was One: Xiong Advances

Jeffery Xiong is through to the quarterfinals at the 2019 FIDE World Cup, defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda Sunday in the third round of tiebreaks by a…

Leonxto Garcia and Leinier Dominguez (photo Kirill Merkuryev)

Dominguez and Xiong Advance to Tiebreaks; So Eliminated

Faced with must-win games, Leiner Dominguez and Jeffery Xiong rose to the challenge. Dominguez defeated Alexander Grischuk, while Jeffery Xiong downed Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Both players…