In the men’s tournament, Sanan Sjugirov won the second game in a row, beating Arseniy Nesterov with black. Daniil Dubov defeated Volodar Murzin with white, and Ilia Iljushenok celebrated his success in the game against Aleksandr Rakhmanov with black. Matlakov – Esipenko, Chigaev – Artemiev and Najer – Tomashevsky ended in a draw. Standings after…
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In the third round of the first stage of the FIDE Grand Prix in Astana, Lagno won against Shuvalova, Kosteniuk – against Tan Zhongyi, Goryachkina – against Kashlinskaya. Assaubayeva – Vaishali, Wagner – Abdumalik, Paehtz – Zhu Jiner played in a draw. Tournament standings: Aleksandra Goryachkina 2.5, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Kateryna Lagno, Zhu Jiner – 2,…
Round 1/32 of the Сhess.com Global Chess Championship ended with three matches. Stage 1/16 matches will start on September 21st. Recall that the participants play a match of four games with a control of 15+2, in case of a draw, the opponents play Armageddon. The prize fund is 1.000.000$. Match results: Hikaru Nakamura – Rodrigo…
In the 2022 season of the Chinese Chess League, Division A was won by the team “Hangzhou Bank”, which scored 18 team points out of 22. Team members: Ma Qun, Bai Jinshi, Xu Zhihang, Xiang Zeyu, Hou Yifan, Zhai Mo, Yan Tianqi. Team “Shanghai” is one point behind (Ni Hua, Zhang Zhong, Xu Yi, Lou…
In Chelyabinsk, the games of the eighth round were played at the Panchenko memorial. In the open tournament, Vladimir Zakhartsov and Vladislav Nozdrachev are leading with 6.5 each. Mikhail Nikitenko and Denis Lazavik are half a point behind. In the women’s tournament, Baira Kovanova is ahead with 7 points. Ekaterina Borisova and Daria Voit are…
In the men’s tournament, Sjugirov beat Matlakov with white, Tomashevsky – Chigaev. The games Murzin – Rakhmanov, Esipenko – Najer, Artemiev – Dubov and Iljushenok – Nesterov ended in a draw. Standings after the 8th round: 1. Sanan Sjugirov – 5, 2-4. Daniil Dubov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Vladislav Artemiev – 4.5, 5-9. Evgeny Najer, Maxim Chigaev,…
“I understand that frustration of Magnus. I really didn’t know much about a lot of things. Now I am somewhere in the middle. I do believe Hans has not been the cleanest person when it comes to online chess. But he’s a young guy, hopefully this will be a lesson to him not to do…
In an interview at the end of the game day at the Julius Baer Generation Cup, Giri commented on the surrender of the game by Carlsen to Niemann on the second move. “Yeah, I mean the show must go on. It reminds me of when you play poker and you bluff on the first card,…
The games of the first eight rounds of the Julius Baer Generation Cup online tournament have been played. Standings (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw): Erigaisi 17 (24), Praggnanandhaa, Carlsen – 15, Ivanchuk, Niemann, Duda – 13, Wojtaszek, Le Quang Liem – 12, Keymer, Aronian – 11, Giri – 10, Saric –…
On the second game day of the Julius Baer Generation Cup, world champion Magnus Carlsen resigned on his second move against Hans Niemann. The American grandmaster, who played with white, went d4. Carlsen answered Nf6 and after Niemann’s answer he resigned. According to the rules of the tournament, it was technically impossible to give up…