Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest all won to lead the 2021 Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk aan Zee after an explosive 7th round that also saw 18-year-old Andrey Esipenko beat Radek Wojtaszek with the black pieces. The only game where the balance was never upset saw Harikrishna vary from his Chessable course on move 7 to frustrate Magnus Carlsen again. The leader before the round, Nils Grandelius, followed recommendations from his opponent Anish Giri’s Najdorf Chessable repertoire for an astonishing 25 moves only to lose a tricky ending.
Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniil Dubov, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov lead the Airthings Masters on 2.5/4 after a first day on which no player managed to win more than a single game. World Champion Magnus Carlsen won none ...
Carlsen-Aronian and Grischuk-Nakamura are among the pairings for Round 1 as the Airthings Masters kicks off at 15:00 CET (09:00 ET) on Saturday 26th December. The $200,000 first Major of the Champions Chess Tour will again featur...
In a brand new video series for chess24, Romain Edouard, a member of the French Olympic team and a former second of Veselin Topalov, offers you a full repertoire for one of the most dynamic replies to 1.d4: The Benoni Defence!
Ian Nepomniachtchi's 10-move draw against Maksim Chigaev turned out to be enough for victory in the Russian Championship Superfinal after his rival Sergey Karjakin lost a fantastic game to Daniil Dubov and finished half a point behi...
Ian Nepomniachtchi and Sergey Karjakin share first place before the final round of the Russian Championship Superfinal, with the deciding games to take place on Wednesday. Both play Black, with Sergey taking on Daniil Dubov while Ia...
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will be out for revenge against Champions Chess Tour leader Wesley So when the first Major of the tour kicks off on December 26th. The 12-player tournament runs until January 3rd and has a $200...
Ian Nepomniachtchi beat Sergey Karjakin to take the lead in the Russian Championship Superfinals, but the key event at the start of the second half of the tournament was the news that Mikhail Antipov was out of the event after testi...
The traditional Tata Steel Chess tournament has been given the green light and will go ahead for the 83rd time between January 16th and 31st 2021. The organisers in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee were forced to look for players clos...
Hikaru Nakamura has won the chess.com Speed Chess Championship after blowing Maxime Vachier-Lagrave away with a 7.5/8 burst at the end. It was the 3rd Speed Chess title in a row for Hikaru, but the first time he’d won the event w...
It’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who’ll take on Hikaru Nakamura in today’s Speed Chess final after the French no. 1 beat Magnus Carlsen 13:11. The World Champion’s 2nd match loss of his 30s looked unlikely when he won the first two games...
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