Kostya Kavutskiy

Hello all! I've started to journal about my lifetime pursuit of the GM title✍️ I'll be logging my training, travel, and tournaments, hoping to stay focused on the ultimate goal 🏅 If you'd like to follow 💙 check out the first post here: hellokostya.substack.com/p/day-1

@GMNeiksans Congrats Arturs and happy birthday!! 🥳

A big day today - not only it's my birthday, but I'm also launching my own official website! gmneiksans.com

📸 Lennart Ootes / Crystal Fuller

Finished with 3.0/9 at the 2026 STL Masters, hoped for more but ended up in shared 3rd place u2400 🥉 Thanks to @STLChessClub for the invite! One of the strongest tournaments I've ever played ♟️

David Navara

RIP to the legend

Had a great time at this camp last year, tons of chess, super fun, highly recommended for anyone who can make it!

Vasyl Ivanchuk gets a round of applause as he manages to make his 40th move with only one second on his clock! chess.com/events/2026-ta…

Forgot to post these, happy new year everybody 🎉

Easiest money ever

Honestly such a pleasure to witness the Magnus era live 🐐🐐

@mustreader I first saw it from Yasser 😊

@hellokostya I think I first saw it in your game, if I’m not mistaken!

Kd7 strikes again!

Very excited to launch live classes from Dojo starting in January! Doing game & profile review plus group classes!! 🥋 w/ @JesseKraai @DPruess

@IndieChess @chess_forever_1

@chess_forever_1 @hellokostya Kostya loves bullet & recommends it to all of his students.

What’s your chess hot take? I’ll go first: Bishops should be able to capture en-passant. @hellokostya

This Chess Robot is INSANE 🤯 youtu.be/5DICFIaNkBE?si… @hellokostya vs. AI SenseRobot 💪🏼 Check the vid out 🔥

@chess_forever_1 @IndieChess Would make teaching chess a lot easier!

@IndieChess @hellokostya We should be allowed to blunder our king

Team Dojo is playing the Rilton Cup! 🇸🇪 Coverage on twitch.tv/ChessDojo Starts today, wish us luck 🙏

This series has been very fun to make, lots of 🔥 takes coming soon!

After so many years of work and thousands of hours of analysis, we finally did it. King's Indian Defence course is available now on bortnykchess.com Daniel always wanted to create a perfect course — and I truly believe this is exactly what we achieved. Every move and every idea is carefully explained. At the moment, the course already includes over 20 hours of video content and 5 PGN chapters. In January, a major update will be released where I’ll add all the remaining material. I also want to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped bring this project to completion. @KaydenTroff made an incredible contribution, and special thanks as well to @GothamChess and @IlliaNyzhnyk truly appreciate all of you. Also, a 20% discount is available for all courses, available until the end of the year! bortnykchess.com/course/kings-i…

@juliacheerios You can always tell by the eyes, 1750 max

can just glance at the photo in this onion article and know instantly that’s not a chess grandmaster. i don’t know why exactly, but everything about this guy. the look on his face. clearly not a gm.