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Hikaru Nakamura won the daytime “Titled Tuesday”

The traditional weekly online tournament “Titled-Tuesday”, held on the gaming platform, has ended “Chess.com “. 400 players with international titles took part in the tournament with a prize fund of 5,000$. The victory was won by American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, with a score of 10 out of 11. In second place – Alexey Sarana –…

Bogdan Dyak and Alexey Sarana won the evening “Titled-Tuesday”

The traditional weekly online tournament “Titled-Tuesday”, held on the gaming platform, has ended “Chess.com “. 349 players with international titles took part in the tournament with a prize fund of $ 5,000.The first place was shared by Romanian grandmaster Bogdan Deac and Alexey Sarana, with a score of 9 points out of 11. On the…

Sam Shankland won the daytime “Titled-Tuesday”

The traditional weekly online tournament “Titled-Tuesday”, held on the gaming platform, has ended “Chess.com “. 417 players with international titles took part in the tournament with a prize fund of $ 5,000. The victory was won by American grandmaster Sam Shankland, with a score of 10 points out of 11. In second place is Jose…

Karjakin does not support Rauf Mamedov’s decision

Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin believes that Azerbaijani chess player Rauf Mamedov needlessly refused to continue the game with world champion Magnus Carlsen at the online blitz tournament Titled Tuesday. “In my opinion, Rauf took such a move of Magnus too close to his heart, it would have been better to get together and win the…

Anatoly Karpov is surprised by Rauf Mamedov’s decision

The twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov said that Azerbaijani grandmaster Rauf Mamedov did wrong when he refused to fight on the second move of the game with world champion Magnus Carlsen during the online tournament Titled Tuesday. Mamedov refused to continue the game with Carlsen at the blitz tournament on the second move. The…

Svidler: no doubt about cheating Niemann online

In an interview with championat.com, Peter Svidler shared his opinion about Hans Niemann. Chess.com’s investigation looks convincing. I am satisfied with everything that is collected in their analysis. As for Niemann’s cheating, there are no doubts about cheating online – the intrigue remained only in the question of his play over the board. Unfortunately, the…

Chess.com Global Chess Championship

Round 1/8 of the chess.com Global Championship continues. 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: Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Alexey Sarana 2,5-0,5 Anish Giri – Pavel Ponkratov 3-1

Wall Street Journal: “Niemann ‘likely cheated’ more than 100 times”

A few hours ago, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article sharing the findings emerging from an investigation conducted by chess.com. According to the piece, chess.com asserts that Hans Niemann “likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 online games, as recently as 2020”, including in many tournaments with prize money on the line….