Superbet Chess Classic 7: Shakh strikes again
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov took down world no. 2 Fabiano Caruana on the bloodiest day yet in Bucharest. Shakh’s 3rd win in a row took him up to world no. 5 on the live rating list and also gave him a 1-point lead going into the final two rounds after co-leader Alexander Grischuk collapsed in time trouble against Levon Aronian. The day’s other winner was Anish Giri, who ground down Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a drawish ending and later declared “chess is just about luck - there’s really nothing else!”
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Superbet Chess Classic 5: Shakh attack!
“I wake up and I think I need to take some risk,” said Shakhriyar Mamedyarov after playing an offbeat opening and crashing though in Constantin Lupulescu’s time trouble to join Wesley So and Alexander Grischuk in the lead going into...
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Superbet Chess Classic 4: So & Grischuk snatch lead
Wesley So cited divine intervention after beating Fabiano Caruana in Round 4 of the Superbet Chess Classic to leapfrog his opponent into the lead. That was the first win not involving the Romanian players, but there could easily hav...
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Superbet Chess Classic 3: Lupulescu stuns Giri
First MVL, now Anish Giri! The Romanian players in the Superbet Chess Classic continue to show their teeth, as Constantin Lupulescu withstood a powerful attack by Giri to hit back with a mating attack of his own. The win for the Rom...
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Superbet Chess Classic 2: Deac shocks MVL
19-year-old Bogdan-Daniel Deac leads two rounds into the Superbet Chess Classic after surviving a difficult opening to turn the tables and defeat French no. 1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Deac is joined in the lead by the more familiar f...
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Simul for the schools: 8 US stars raise cash for schoolkids
chess24 will host a star-studded benefit event for one of America’s original chess education organisations, Chess in the Schools. The online tournament - which you can play in - features GMs Pascal Charbonneau, Irina Krush, Daniel N...
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Superbet Chess Classic 1: Giri’s gamble almost backfires
“Nobody else wanted to play chess!” said Anish Giri after flirting with disaster against Bogdan-Daniel Deac on a day when the Superbet Chess Classic began with four completely uneventful draws. His game was also ultimately a draw, b...
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Shankland & Anton knocked out of Banter Blitz Cup
Sam Shankland and David Anton were big name casualties on Day 1 of the San Fermin Banter Blitz Cup as they lost their first round matches to Vahap Sanal and Hans Niemann. It’s going to be Duda-Sadhwani and Sanal-Niemann in the semi-...
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Gelfand Challenge sees 20 young stars fight to join Champions
20 of the world’s best young male and female chess players will compete on chess24 from June 10-13 in the Gelfand Challenge, the second event on the $100,000 Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. The line-up, split into Team Kramnik a...
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Newly-minted GM Abdumalik crushes in Gibraltar
21-year-old Zhansaya Abdumalik blew away the field to win the Gibraltar FIDE Women’s Grand Prix with an unbeaten 8.5/11, finishing 1.5 points clear of Mariya Muzychuk in second place. The Kazakhstan star broke through the 2500 barri...
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Carlsen & Nepomniachtchi to meet in Norway Chess
Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi will meet in the 9th edition of Norway Chess just two months before they begin their World Championship match in Dubai. Norway Chess, which was originally planned to return to a 10-player format...
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