Magnus Carlsen tops Banter Blitz Cup billing
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will be the top seed for the 128-player $50,000 Banter Blitz Cup that’s set to start in a week’s time. 97 grandmasters, 59 of them rated above 2600, are among the players from 34 countries already signed up to play in an event where they’ll commentate live on their chess24 blitz games as they battle to get through 7 rounds and win the $14,000 top prize.
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Khanty World Cup 2.1: Nakamura & Wei Yi lose
Hikaru Nakamura must win his second classical game or he’s out of the 2019 World Cup after blitzing out a blunder on move 14 of his game against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. David Anton beating Wei Yi was the only other upset win, but...
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chess24 and Opera GX: the perfect combination
Opera GX, the new gaming browser from Norway-based Opera, will enhance your online chess experience. Along with its featured Twitch integration, GX lets you pop out any video, including chess24 shows, video series and live commentar...
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Khanty World Cup R1 TB: Shankland & Adams out
Hikaru Nakamura, Yu Yangyi, Boris Gelfand and Dmitry Andreikin were among the star names to make it through tiebreaks intact and reach Round 2 of the 2019 FIDE World Cup, but others weren’t so lucky. Sam Shankland’s difficult yea...
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Khanty World Cup 1.2: A Svidler masterpiece
David Navara & Nils Grandelius lost their second games in Khanty-Mansiysk to join Radek Wojtaszek, Jorge Cori, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ruslan Ponomariov as big name players who are already out of the 2019 World Cup. In all only five o...
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Khanty World Cup, 1.1: Rise of the teen stars
16th seed Radek Wojtaszek lost with White to 113th seed Johan-Sebastian Christiansen in the biggest upset of Day 1 of the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. There were only four upset wins in total, with Niclas Huschenbeth be...
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The 2019 Khanty-Mansiysk World Cup begins
Ding Liren is the top seed as the 128-player month-long World Cup starts on Tuesday in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand are skipping the event, but almost all the rest of the world’s best p...
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Chess9LX, Day 4: Nakamura completes comeback
Hikaru Nakamura started the last day of Chess960 in St. Louis a point behind Levon Aronian but went on to win the match with two rounds to spare, as Levon went an incredible 14 games without a win. Elsewhere it took Wesley So jus...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 24: Part 5
In Episode 5 of Season 24 of Jan's Opening Clinic Grandmaster and Magnus Carlsen second Jan Gustafsson once again tackles questions that range from how to play the Petroff Defence to the arguably easier question of what is the meani...
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Chess 9LX, Day 3: Caruana beats Kasparov
Garry Kasparov’s horror when he realised he’d lost on time to Fabiano Caruana in a winning position was the defining moment of Day 3 of the Chess960 Champions Showdown in Saint Louis. The 13th World Champion was unable to recover...
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Chess 9LX, Day 2: Kasparov gets to have some fun
Garry Kasparov admitted “I can fight all opponents, but not age”, though on Day 2 of the Chess960 Champions Showdown in St. Louis he showed glimpses of his best as he finally grabbed a win over Fabiano Caruana. Another painful bl...
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