Carlsen, Sjugirov, Firouzja & Narayanan reach semis
Magnus Carlsen takes on Sanan Sjugirov in today’s first Banter Blitz Cup semi-final and finds himself in an unusual position: the World Champion has played two, lost two against his Russian opponent, blundering a piece in both the 2010 Olympiad and the 2017 World Blitz Championship! The other semi-final sees a clash between perhaps the two fastest players in the event, 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja and Indian GM S.L. Narayanan.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Today we’re going to celebrate with a mini Banter Blitz Cup where four female chess players stream live as they play semi-finals and a final. The line-up is 7-time US Women’s Champion Irina Krush in English, WGM Melanie Lubbe in G...
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MVL to play the Candidates instead of Radjabov
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will get to play his first Candidates Tournament after all after the World Chess Federation (FIDE) today announced that Teimour Radjabov has withdrawn for personal reasons (UPDATE: Radjabov has now denied th...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 25: Part 4
In the latest instalment of Jan's Opening Clinic, chess openings guru Jan Gustafsson answers more chess24 premium member questions. This episode has all the necessary ingredients - a King's Gambit mini rant ("it's no longer the...
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Lausanne Grand Prix 1-3: Harika beats Ju Wenjun
Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun was ground down in Round 3 of the Lausanne Women’s Grand Prix as India’s Harika Dronavalli joined a 5-player leading pack on 2/3. Anna Muzychuk scored the day’s most spectacular victory, gaining a ...
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The Week Ahead: 3 – 9 March 2020
16-year-old prodigy Alireza Firouzja takes on chess24’s Laurent Fressinet on Thursday for a place in the Last 16 of the Banter Blitz Cup, with Robson-Antón on Saturday the first match for a place in the quarterfinals. 7-time US W...
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The 2020 Candidates: Kirill Alekseenko
22-year-old Russian Kirill Alekseenko is the wild card for the 2020 Candidates Tournament and an outsider in every possible way – three years younger than anyone else, 64 points lower rated and not only has he never played a Cand...
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Alireza Firouzja in Banter Blitz Cup action
16-year-old Alireza Firouzja, the hottest of many very hot young talents in world chess, will be in Banter Blitz Cup action today when he takes on Ukrainian GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko for the right to play Famous French Legend Laure...
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New "Beast from Baku" Suleymanli wins Aeroflot
14-year-old Azerbaijan IM Aydin Suleymanli is the shock winner of the 2020 Aeroflot Open. The 71st seed finished on 6.5/9 and had better tiebreaks than Rinat Jumabayev, Rauf Mamedov and Aravindh. It was a second grandmaster norm ...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 25: Parts 2-3
If you've missed Jan Gustafsson's last two Opening Clinics you're in for a treat. In his replies to chess24 Premium member questions, Jan, a regular Magnus Carlsen second, addresses such issues as why 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6!? isn't the so...
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