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Who's the strongest player your favorite GM has ever beaten? Every player page on RadarChess now shows their best wins and the toughest opponents they've faced.
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India's almost 99th GM whose games FIDE left out, V S Rathanvel, hit a live 2499.8 at Chefchaouen after beating GM Larino Nieto in round 7. Two draws later he finished at 2497.7, short of 2500. Is he a GM now? Part 3 of his story is up on r/chess: reddit.com/r/chess/comments/…
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Norms still possible in the 2026 US Women’s Championship! Rachael Li needs to finish with a 1.5/4 to secure her first IM norm. Scoring a 1/4 gets her final WGM norm: radarchess.com/events/487660…
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36 Women and 24 Open players on a perfect 3/3 after 3 rounds of the Olympiad. Follow along here, games update live!
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The September FIDE list is out, and August belonged to Praggnanandhaa. Won Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, tied first at the Sinquefield Cup, then won the Grand Chess Tour Finals over Keymer and Caruana. 2761 classical, India's #1 by two points over Erigaisi. radarchess.com/players/25059…
Not in the September numbers yet: Firouzja tied for first in the Balkan rapid and won the blitz outright the next day. Two Indians born in 2012, Shaurya Chaudhary and Aarav Amonkar, gained 189 and 157 at the Sants Open and are 2419 and 2400 live. radarchess.com/events/195361…
48,897 people played a classical rated game this cycle, 36,663 rapid, 24,290 blitz. Every rated game since September 1 is already counted at radarchess.com. Full write-up with all the links: reddit.com/r/chess/comments/…
Kukudzarema Shepherd, 21, is Zimbabwe's new #1 rated classical player in live Elo after gaining 186 Elo so far in August. His entire competitive record: 23 rated games w/ a score of 20/23. Well done! radarchess.com/players/11037… #chess @ChessZimbabwe
Huge congratulations to Alice Lee on her first GM norm! She scored a 6/9 (TPR of 2623) at the Cairns Cup:
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Richard Rapport, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dmitry Andreikin and Amin Tabatabaei spent the first half of August playing club chess in Ankara.
So did Lei Tingjie, and so did Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, who is 15 and already the highest rated junior.
The people who got something out of Ankara were mostly the ones nobody flew in to watch.
Khagan Ahmad is fifteen, Azerbaijani, and an IM already. Against that field he scored 9.5 out of 13 for a 2704 TPR and his first GM norm, and his live rating crossed 2500 on the way.
Xeniya Balabayeva took an IM norm and 59 Elo, the biggest gain of anyone in the tournament, and is now at the highest rating she has ever had.
Every board:
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