[ad_1] GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 2024 Menorca Open on Sunday. The Indian top-GM edged out GMs Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev on tiebreaks after all finished on 7.5/9. Arjun reached a career-peak live rating of 2761 and briefly occupied the fifth place in the world rankings. As it goes with those quick changes at […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament after dispatching GM Vidit Gujrathi on the white side of Berlin Defense. Draws on the remaining three boards leave GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana in equal second. In the women’s event, a day of missed chances saw GM Tan […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Daniel Naroditsky netted $400 and his second Bullet Brawl victory in a row on Saturday after scoring 260 points ahead of 122 other titled players. Scoring 72 wins in 83 games, Naroditsky put a healthy buffer between himself and second and third places, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk (222) and IM Yoseph Taher (214), respectively. […]
Read More[ad_1] This is a flash report. The full report is coming soon. in round three of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament, everyone was “drawn” to equality except for GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu who sought to revive himself from yesterday’s loss. Pragg probed his compatriot with a pawn sacrifice in the Ruy Lopez, and co-leader GM Vidit […]
Read More[ad_1] This is a flash report. The full report is coming soon. The enterprising play at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament led to an all-decisive day two. With a novelty followed by two sacrifices, GM Vidit Gujrathi broke GM Hikaru Nakamura’s 47-game undefeated streak. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi prevailed in the labyrinth of complexity he created with his […]
Read More[ad_1] This is a flash report. The full report is coming soon. The players arrived ready to fight on the opening day of the 2024 Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura sacrificed two rooks vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Alireza Firouzja vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was a duel of imagination and counterstrikes. GM Vidit Gujrathi essayed […]
Read More[ad_1] The much-anticipated Candidates Tournament is just around the corner, with the eight contenders fighting for the right to challenge reigning World Champion Ding Liren for the title. But who will triumph in the end? Here’s GM Magnus Carlsen’s verdict. Four grandmasters have shared their verdicts according to the stats, but how does the former world […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Hong won the first Titled Tuesday events of April 2024. For Hong, it was a milestone, being his first-ever win in Titled Tuesday, and he did it outright with 10 points while Nakamura needed tiebreaks earlier after finishing in a four-way tie for first. Nakamura also made the top […]
Read More[ad_1] 12-year-old Turkish chess sensation IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is the new youngest grandmaster in the world and the fourth youngest to achieve the title in history. He earned his third grandmaster norm in Germany on Monday and his title is pending approval from FIDE. Erdogmus is also on the verge of breaking a 35-year-old […]
Read More[ad_1] It’s late at night at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, early 1960s. Smoke wafts between shadowed men playing chess under lamplights. But what stands out most in this historic photograph is the sole young woman, exhaling the fog of war over an illuminated chessboard as she prepares to move a black […]
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