Riga Grand Prix Final 1: Mamedyarov strikes first
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov needs only a draw in the second classical game to win the 2019 Riga FIDE Grand Prix after crushing Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s Grünfeld in the first. As in the semi-final against Wesley So, an opening novelty almost immediately gave the Azerbaijan star a winning position, while Maxime will have had painful memories of the final round of the Zagreb Grand Chess Tour. Back then it was Magnus Carlsen who did unspeakable things to his Grünfeld Defence.
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Magnus Carlsen’s 5th Banter Blitz session
Magnus Carlsen will be back to play more blitz against chess24 Premium users this Tuesday 16th July at 18:30 CEST. The World Champion ended the last session, “I’ll be back at the board soon in Croatia, trying to play some better ...
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Riga GP: R1, Tiebreaks: All the way to Armageddon
Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler and Hikaru Nakamura are all out of the Riga FIDE Grand Prix after chess followed the Wimbledon final and the Cricket World Cup in going all the way to Armageddon in two of the matches. Tho...
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Dortmund R1: Explosive start to post-Kramnik era
Richard Rapport beat defending champion Ian Nepomniachtchi as the first Dortmund tournament of the post-Kramnik era got off to a dramatic start on Saturday. Leinier Dominguez continued his exceptional form since returning to clas...
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Riga GP: R1, Day 1: The Rausis effect
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won his first classical game in 22 attempts as he beat David Navara to grab the only win of Day 1 of the Riga FIDE Grand Prix. It may have owed something to the Igors Rausis cheating case, since Navara said...
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GM Igors Rausis allegedly caught cheating
58-year-old Grandmaster Igors Rausis is reported to have been caught red-handed using a mobile phone to cheat in a toilet during the Strasbourg Open. Rausis, who has represented Latvia, Bangladesh and the Czech Republic, had been...
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Carlsen conquers Croatia: 7 conclusions
Magnus Carlsen’s simply “insane” (Giri) year continued as he beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round to win the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour by a full point. That made it 8 tournament victories in a row, 79 classical game...
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Croatia GCT 10: Nothing to see here
Magnus Carlsen still leads Wesley So by half a point going into the final round of the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour after their head-to-head clash was an instantly forgettable draw. It seemed as though the other players took the...
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Croatia GCT 9: Aronian stops Carlsen… just!
Levon Aronian found some brilliant defensive resources to avoid becoming Magnus Carlsen’s fourth victim in a row after another paradoxical opening idea from the World Champion almost worked to perfection. The only victory in Roun...
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Croatia GCT 8: Carlsen’s “special” win over Ding
Magnus Carlsen got to unleash some unused World Championship preparation on Ding Liren in Round 8 of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour, and although the world no. 3 survived the middlegame he was hunted down in the endgame. “A win is ...
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Croatia GCT 7: Carlsen ends his Nepo jinx
Magnus Carlsen took the sole lead in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour with four rounds to go after finally beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in a game of classical chess. The Russian made one mistake, but it was catastrophic, and saw his po...
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