Tata Steel 7: Fabi, Alireza, Anish & Jorden lead
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.
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Skilling Open 3: Firouzja heartbreak as Carlsen wins prelims
Magnus Carlsen survived a blunder against Hikaru Nakamura in the first round of the day to win the Skilling Open prelims, but the main drama was elsewhere. 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja seemed to have wrapped up a quarterfinal spot...
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Skilling Open 2: Giri still leads after Karjakin beats Carlsen
Anish Giri drew all five games on Day 2 of the Skilling Open, but that was enough to retain the sole lead after Sergey Karjakin took down Magnus Carlsen in the final round of the day. Of the eight highest classically rated player...
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Skilling Open 1: Giri leads mouse-slipping Carlsen
Anish Giri is sole leader of the Skilling Open after scoring 4/5 on Day 1, and it could have been more, since he took a draw in a winning position against Hikaru Nakamura. Magnus Carlsen feared “a very, very long day” after blund...
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Introducing the new Skilling Open commentary teams and our slick TV studio
The $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour kicks off on Sunday with the first event, The Skilling Open, featuring 16 of the world's top chess stars. The event will have commentary in 8 languages, with 4 broadcasts in English. For the fir...
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Nakamura and Firouzja complete Skilling Open line-up
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour runner-up Hikaru Nakamura and the world’s most exciting junior Alireza Firouzja are the final players to be confirmed for the Skilling Open, the first event on the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour. The ...
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Carlsen, Giri, Aronian, Svidler & more stars in action
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will play Banter Blitz at 16:00 on Friday, but that’s just one of a host of events taking place around the Skilling Open, the first event on the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour. The tournamen...
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Ivanchuk, Gelfand & co. play today on chess24!
Vasyl Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Leinier Dominguez, Sam Shankland, Paco Vallejo, Sethuraman, Eduardo Iturrizaga and Alan Pichot make up for the field for the Ayelén Invitational, an 8-player rapid round-robin taking place today w...
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Peter Svidler plays the Skilling Open
8-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler is the 14th player to be confirmed for the Skilling Open, the 16-player opening event of the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour that starts on November 22nd. Peter won the right to play in the ...
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Netflix series sparks global chess interest
Netflix hit series The Queen’s Gambit has taken the world by storm and is currently the most watched show globally, topping the lists in at least 50 countries and receiving widespread praise all over the world. Now Beth Harmon seems...
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Ian Nepomniachtchi plays the Skilling Open... and Banter Blitz
Russian no. 1 Ian Nepomniachtchi is the 13th player to be confirmed for the Skilling Open, the 16-player opening event of the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour that starts on November 22nd. Ian is at a career high world no. 4 and ...
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