USA favourites as Olympiad set to begin in Batumi
The 43rd Chess Olympiad starts this weekend, with 1600 players descending on Batumi, Georgia for the biggest event in chess. The surprise this year is that the defending champions USA are also the top seeds, a role held by the USSR or Russia every time they’ve played since their debut in 1952. Magnus Carlsen is missing from the Norwegian team, but Vishy Anand plays for India for the first time in 12 years. In total, a record 336 teams are registered for the 11-round open and women’s tournaments that begin on Monday.
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Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 5
Though we all tune into Jan's Opening Clinic for the words of chess opening wisdom of Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, in part 5 of the 20th edition the hero is a chess24 Premium user who may have discovered something that even the very ...
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Dortmund 2018, 4: Kramnik halts Duda’s rise
Vladimir Kramnik has blown the race to win the 2018 Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund wide open after scoring a convincing win over rising star Jan-Krzysztof Duda in Round 4. Both players are now in a 4-way tie for 1st place a...
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Dortmund 2018, 3: Duda strikes again as Giri loses
Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat his Polish compatriot Radek Wojtaszek for the second game in a row to remain the sole leader in Dortmund on 2.5/3 and enter the world’s Top 20. A dramatic day also saw Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu swept aside by...
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Dortmund 2018, 2: Duda takes the lead
20-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu with the black pieces to take the sole lead after Round 2 of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. The world’s top junior was richly rewarded for some mild risk-takin...
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Dortmund 2018, 1: "Chess is ugly and a draw"
Ian Nepomniachtchi almost celebrated his 28th birthday in style by beating Anish Giri in Round 1 of the 2018 Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, but one false king move at the end allowed Anish to escape with a draw. The other ...
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Kramnik hunts 11th Dortmund title
The 46th Sparkassen Chess Meeting starts in Dortmund, Germany on Saturday, with world no. 5 Vladimir Kramnik looking to add to his haul of ten Dortmund titles. He’ll face tough competition from Anish Giri, who’s risen to world no....
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Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 4
In Season 20, Episode 4 of Jan's Opening Clinic, one of the world's leading chess theoreticians, Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, once again gives advice to chess24 Premium Members. Topics include the idea Magnus Carlsen used in the Berl...
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Wesley So defends his Leon Masters title
The Philippines born US star Wesley So has won his second consecutive Leon Masters after needing tiebreaks to beat Spanish no. 1 Paco Vallejo in the final. Paco was the dominant force in the rapid games, but So demonstrated his defe...
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Leon Masters 2: Vallejo has two lives
Spanish no. 1 Francisco Vallejo mounted a comeback against Jaime Santos to win the second semifinal of the 2018 Leon Masters and earn a match against Wesley So on Sunday. It seemed an impossible task, but the Vallejo and Santos semi...
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Leon Masters 1: So beats "genius" Praggnanandhaa
Wesley So and Praggnanandhaa contested an epic match in the first semifinal of the 2018 Leon Masters on Friday. It will be remembered as the first time the 12-year-old Indian talent had one of the world's elite grandmasters on the r...
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