An open tournament is being held in Nova Gorica (Slovenia), 98 chess players play in Tournament A, nine of whom are grandmasters. After three rounds, there are eight players ahead who scored 2.5 points out of 3. Technical results
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The seventh stage of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour online series begins today, in which will play Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Vasyl Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Anish Giri (Netherlands), David Navara (Czech Republic), Vincent Keymer (Germany), Ivan Saric (Croatia), Le Quang Liem (Vietnam), Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Radoslaw Wojtaszek (both Poland), Levon Aronian, Hans Niemann, Christopher…
The next matches of the 1/32 finals were played on Saturday. 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: Wang Hao — Peter Leko 2.5 — 1.5Jan-Krzysztof Duda — Guha Mitrabha…
After six rounds in the A tournament, M. Nikitenko (Belarus) is ahead, having scored 5.5 points. R. Makarian (Russia) is half a point behind, ten players are one point behind. In the women’s tournament B.Kovanova, E.Semenova and E.Solozhenkina (all — Russia) are in the lead, having scored 5 points each. Five participants are half a…
The first stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix will be held in the capital of Kazakhstan from September 17 to 30. In total, 4 tournaments will be played in the series, in which 16 chess players will take part (each will play in 3 tournaments). The two best chess players of the Grand Prix…
In the men’s tournament, the first victory was won by Sanan Sjugirov, who beat Maksim Chigaev with white. Iljiushenok — Matlakov, Nesterov — Najer, Esipenko — Dubov, Tomashevsky — Rakhmanov and Artemiev — Murzin played a draw. Standings after the 6th round: 1-3. Sanan Sjugirov, Daniil Dubov, Vladislav Artemiev — 3,5, 4-11. Maxim Matlakov, Evgeniy…
The regular matches of the 1/32 finals were played on Friday. Recal, 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: Arjun Erigaisi — David Paravyan 2.5 — 0.5Teimour Radjabov — Hou Yifan…
Fabiano Caruana won three games on the final game day of the Fischer Chess tournament. In the tie-break with Alireza Firouzja, the rivals exchanged blows, but in Armageddon, the American grandmaster chose white with a commitment to win and eventually celebrated success. Final standings: 1. Fabiano Caruana – 6.5 points. 2. Alireza Firouzja – 6.5…
In Romania, the world championships in the age groups under 14, 16 and 18 have ended. Among the boys under 14, Ilamparti from India won with 9.5 points out of 11. The second place was taken by the Pole Seemann (9), the third was the Kazakh Ansat (8.5). Among girls under 14 Nurgaliyeva from Kazakhstan…
Anish Giri tweeted a funny post after passing round 1/32: “My childhood dream of becoming a Chess Global Champion is still alive!”. To which Fabiano Caruana replied: “Just wait until you have your shot in the Chess Galactic Championship!”.