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 ...

Georgian (country, not state) grandmaster Baadur Jobava has long been a favorite of this column. In this period of Magnus Carlsen’s stale technical, grinding chess, Jobava brings a fresh breath of old ...

MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So downed local hero Baadur Jobava in their rapid two-game playoffs to seal a 2.5-1.5 victory and a quarterfinal berth in the FIDE World Chess Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia ...