The penultimate round of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix took place on Sunday in Munich and featured a miraculous escape from GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, who managed to save a completely lost endgame against GM Koneru Humpy in the round’s most important matchup. The showdown lived up to the hype as Koneru came within a whisker …
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GM Levon Aronian leads the final of the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first of two days. GM Wei Yi had winning positions in both the second and third games, but had to settle for draws and then lost the fourth game. How to watch? The games of the FTX Road to Miami …
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 17 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, overcoming GM Jules Moussard, who made it to the final in his first-ever knockout. GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Nodirbek Abdusattorov made it to the semifinals. GMs Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim Matlakov, and Raunak Sadhwani finished in the quarterfinals. Participating in …
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The eighth round of the Superbet Chess Classic, which was played on the notorious Friday the 13th, delivered just as much blood as the history annals would have us believe that was spilled on the days with that date. At the end of it there was only one winner when GM Leinier Dominguez benefitted from …
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