Matvey Galchenko

In December 2023, he drew attention to Vladimir Kramnik having played on Chess.com using Denis Khismatullin's account, resulting in Kramnik being banned from prize tournaments.^[1][2]

In October 2024, he won the Russian Blitz Championships, finishing a half-point ahead of grandmasters Nikita Afanasiev, Ivan Zemlyanskii, and Maxim Matlakov.^[3] Later that month, he played for the Central Park Tower team (alongside Andrey Esipenko, Haik M. Martirosyan, David Paravyan, and Rudik Makarian) in the Russian Rapid Team Championships, where the team were the champions.^[4]