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So, Minh Le Win Titled Tuesday; Le Enters Speed Chess Championship

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GM Wesley So and Minh Le each won outright with a score of 10/11 in the May 27 editions of Titled Tuesday, the final tournaments of the 2025 Titled Tuesday Grand Prix. Le's performance carried him into the top eight in the Grand Prix standings, gu...

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Lessons

Hikaru Plays to Win

GM Hikaru Nakamura

Learn from multiple time US Champion, Super-Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura as he provides an in depth look at his thought process in games against World Champions and other top players.

Videos

Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Magnus Carlsen's Most Spectacular Defeat–Aronian vs Carlsen 2017

NM Sam Copeland

World Champion Magnus Carlsen rarely loses a game. One of those losses came against the Levon Aronian in Norway in 2017. Check out NM Sam Copeland's #9 game of the 2010s.

Blogs

A Century of Chess: Akiba Rubinstein (1920-29)

sam kahn

The chess world had largely moved on from Rubinstein by the 1920s. He was poor, he was strange, he was slowly going crazy, and he was not at all a participant in the flashy theoretical discussions underway. As Tartakower wrote, "His tragedy consis...

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