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.

Baadur Jobava is a Georgian national grandmaster, who does not abide conventional moves. Here is an illustration of his technique, playing White in the Tata Steel Chess Challenger section against the ...

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 ...