It took two full games and two messy tiebreakers before the victors of the action of day nine in The American Cup were decided. In the Women’s event, GM Irina Krush needed only a draw, but lost the regulation game before ultimately deciding the match and the title in rapid play against FM Alice Lee. …
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Team MGD1 made it to the playoffs after eliminating the Garden State Passers in week five of the 2023 Pro Chess League. This was the last match of the regular season. Board three, GM Diptayan Ghosh, scored the most points with 3/4, but every member of the team deserves credit for the victory. Not a …
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GM Gukesh D finished first in the inaugural Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters Play-In Swiss 2023. With six wins and three draws, he went undefeated to secure the top spot in the grandmaster-only Swiss Event. Gukesh, as well as five other players—GMs Rauf Mamedov, Alireza Firouzja, Arjun Erigaisi, Alexey Sarana, and Hikaru Nakamura—qualified for Division …
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GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Fedoseev were the winners of Titled Tuesday on November 15, both doing so outright without needing tiebreaks. Caruana reached the coveted 10.5/11 score in the early tournament, only drawing in round five. Fedoseev won late with 10/11 after placing fourth early. GM Alireza Firouzja also finished in the top five …
After intense rapid and blitz play action in the Elimination Brackets on Tuesday, the sanity of the Championship Brackets returned on Wednesday with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian meeting in Group A while Group B saw a repeat of GM Irina Krush vs. FM Alice Lee. In a complicated battle, Aronian had the decidedly better side of …
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