Magnus Carlsen launches online chess super-tournament
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational sees the World Chess Champion challenge seven of his biggest rivals to a 2-week, $250,000 battle. The 8-player online event starting April 18th will fill the current void in top-level chess, and indeed sport in general, allowing chess fans to get back to watching the best players each day. Every move will be streamed live on chess24, complete with commentary in 9 languages.
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Duda & Abdusattorov in Banter Blitz Cup action
15-year-old Uzbekistan phenomenon Nodirbek Abdusattorov and 21-year-old Polish world no. 15 Jan-Krzysztof Duda are in action in the Banter Blitz Cup today. Abdusattorov takes on Russian GM Maksim Chigaev for a place in Round 3, w...
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Carlsen, Dvorkovich & Kramnik on ending the Candidates
Instead of Round 8 of the Candidates we got the bombshell news that the tournament was being stopped, with the players, their teams and others involved scrambling to get flights home. Rather than commentary on Caruana-MVL there w...
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Norway Chess postponed until October
Altibox Norway Chess was set to open in the Clarion Hotel Energy in Stavanger on June 1st, but the supertournament featuring World Champion Magnus Carlsen and 8 more of the world's top 11 players has now been moved to October due t...
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FIDE Candidates Tournament stopped at halfway
The 2020 FIDE Candidates has been stopped today after 7 of the 14 rounds, with the second half to be completed at a later date. The escalating coronavirus pandemic around the world had made the decision to play the event look inc...
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Ultimate Chess Championship - English vs Spanish
In this first of its kind battle between two of chess24's popular squads, members of the English language team take on the Spanish language team in a battle for bragging rights. Starting after the games of Round 8 are completed.
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Candidates 2020, 7: MVL makes his move
French no. 1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave crushed the French Defence of leader Ian Nepomniachtchi to join him on 4.5/7 at the halfway mark of the 2020 Candidates Tournament. Nepo’s defeat gave hope to the other players in the event, bu...
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FantasyChess - Daily Updates
Follow the progress of the FantasyChess contest as winners are announced and interesting results are highlighted.
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Candidates 2020, 6: Nepo ends Ding’s hopes
Ian Nepomniachtchi felt unwell and wanted to make a quick draw but instead scored a devastating win over Ding Liren that all but ended the Chinese no. 1’s hopes of earning a match against Magnus. Nepo is the clear frontrunner on ...
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Candidates 2020, 5: Nepo takes the lead
Ian Nepomniachtchi squeezed out a win against Wang Hao in Round 5 to become the first player to take the sole lead in the 2020 Candidates Tournament. The other games were drawn, but not without a real fight. Alekseenko-MVL was a ...
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Candidates 2020, 4: MVL misses his chance
All four games were drawn in Round 4 of the 2020 Candidates Tournament as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed a gilt-edged chance to exploit Alexander Grischuk’s time trouble. The Russian had thought 53 minutes over 18…Ne7, 100% sure M...
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