The second leg of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix kicked off with four decisive games in round one, featuring ferocious king attacks by GMs Tan Zhongyi, Nana Dzagnidze, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Elisabeth Paehtz. How to watch? The games of the Munich Women’s Grand Prix can be found here. The rounds start each day at …
By reaching the semifinals of the Aimchess Rapid tournament, GM Magnus Carlsen has secured overall victory in the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The world champion knocked out GM Arjun Erigaisi and will face GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda next. The other semifinals match will be between GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and GM Richard Rapport, who eliminated GM …
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GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov were big winners in Titled Tuesday on September 6, both winning a tournament and finishing top three in the other. Nakamura began the early tournament with 9/9 before drawing his last two games against GM Vasyl Ivanchuk and Dubov. Ivanchuk (fifth place early) and GM Gata Kamsky (third place …
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Top-flight chess returned to one of America’s premier chess venues on Friday with the commencement of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the penultimate event of the Grand Chess Tour, with the day’s proceedings going the way of French GM Alireza Firouzja, who started with five points in three games. The scoring system in …
GM Jeffery Xiong leads the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first day of play. The 21-year-old American grandmaster, who is making his debut in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was the only player to win three games, which gave him nine points thanks to the 3-1-0 scoring system. Xiong said afterward: “Obviously it …
