Vice-President of the Moscow Chess Federation Sergey Smagin spoke about the situation between world champion Magnus Carlsen and American grandmaster Hans Niemann. Magnus accused his rival of cheating. After that, Niemann filed a lawsuit, demanding $ 100 million for damage to reputation. “It won’t affect the image of chess in general much. Perhaps, on the…
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American grandmaster Hans Niemann sued Magnus Carlsen, Chess. com, Daniel Rench, Hikaru Nakamura, Play.Magnus. The grandmaster demands an amount of at least 100 million US dollars for the damage to his reputation. official source
Hikaru Nakamura gave pleasure to usual amatuers having played some parties in the park Toronto
The UR (universal rating, taking into account performances in all competitions – classic, rapid and blitz) for October 2022 has been published. World Ten: Carlsen (Norway) 2846, Nakamura (USA) 2805, Firouzja (France) 2801, Ding Liren (China) 2800, Nepomniachtchi (Russia) 2789, So 2784, Caruana (both US) 2780, Vachier-Lagrave (France) 2775, Duda (Poland) 2766, Aronian (USA) 2764….
The final list of players of the Fischer Chess World Championship has become known. The tournament will be held from October 25 to 30, 2022 in Reykjavik. The participants will be: Wesley So – 2019 World Fischer Random Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen – 2019 World Fischer Random Chess Championship runner-up, Vladimir Fedoseev – Winner of…
The next round of 1/8 round matches have been played in the Chess.com Global Championship. 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$. Match results: Hikaru Nakamura – Lenier Dominguez 2,5 – 1,5 Dmitry Andreikin – Fabiano…
The traditional “Titled Tuesday” tournaments on Chess.com for holders of international chess titles continue. The “early” tournament was won by Hikaru Nakamura, who scored 9.5 out of 11. Olexandr Bortnyk and Manuel Petrosyan scored the same number of points. In the “late” Title Tuesday, Nakamura also won with a similar result. He was half a…
The next round of 1/16 round matches have been played in the Chess.com Global Championship. Participants play a match of four games with a control of 15+2, in case of a draw, the opponents play Armageddon. The prize fund is 1.000.000$. Match results: Anish Giri – Raunak Sadhwani 3-0 Pavel Ponkratov – Nodirbek Abdusattarov 3-2…