GM Wesley So leads at the halfway point of 2026 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with seven points out of nine games. After blundering into a mate-in-one the first game, So stormed back to snatch the lead from GM Arjun Erigaisi, who started with…
GMs Denis Lazavik, Alexey Sarana, and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the three 3 0 Thursday tournaments on January 8. It was Bortnyk's first victory in the event, while the other GMs took their second title. IM Anna Sargsyan won the women's prizes in the f...