John Bartholomew tops group but narrowly misses out on second GM norm

He almost did it – but Chessable’s own John Bartholomew fell just short of winning a hard-fought second GM norm today. The Scandi king put in a phenomenal performance on the final day of the Charlotte Chess Center’s GM/IM Norm Invitational tournament to top his group above three GMs and the much talked about Indian super talent […]

John Bartholomew’s win over Indian wonderkid Praggnanandhaa

We don’t want to get you too excited, and we don’t want to pile too much pressure on John Bartholomew to get his next norm. But we thought you’d like to know Chessable’s resident IM has beaten the 12-year-old Indian super talent Ramesh Praggnanandhaa at the GM Norm Invitational in Charlotte. Praggu, as he is […]