by John Bain | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Romance in Chess
India’s 23-year-old GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (Peak rating: 2506) sat down at the chessboard to play Uzbekistan’s 23-year-old GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (Peak rating: 2668) at the Tata Steel Challengers tournament in the Netherlands in January 2025 He Would NOT... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 15, 2025 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Romance in Chess
Norway’s Magnus CarlsenandElla Victoria Malone! byJohn Bain Retired, five-time Classical World Chess Champion ($$$), Magnus Carlsen (34), the world’s #1 rated chess player, married Ella Victoria Malone (26) in January 2025.According to the website,... Read more 
by John Bain | Dec 4, 2023 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Romance in Chess
Hikaru NakamuraWedsAtousa Pourkashiyan! byJohn Bain Hikaru Nakamura–the world’s wealthiest ($$$) chess player–married Atousa Pourkashiyan in July 2023.Hikaru, born in Japan on December 9, 1987, is a chess Grandmaster and the #2 ranked chess player in... Read more 
by John Bain | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives
Hikaru NakamurabyJohn Bain How Does He Do It? Hikaru Nakamura possesses a “…combination of teacherly wisdom, galaxy-brained skills, and uncommon expressiveness.” -Nathan Grayson, a reporter at The Washington Post focusing on live-streaming and... Read more 
by John Bain | May 12, 2022 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Records in Chess!
Yuri Averbakh 1922 – 2022 by John Bain A Role Model February 8, 1922 – May 7, 2022 Yuri Averbakh passed away on May 7, 2022, three months after celebrating his 100th birthday on February 8, 2022. In 1925 in Moscow, 3-year-old Yuri and his family... Read more 
by John Bain | May 10, 2022 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Women Chess Players
Isabelle Choko by by John Bain Isabelle Choko survived Auschwitz–the Nazi extermination camp, became a successful chess player and eventually won the French Women’s Chess Championship.Isabelle was born in Lodz, Poland on September 18, 1928, as Izabela... Read more 
