GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and GM Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia won all three rounds to jump into the sole lead of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid and 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women’s Rapid, respectively, by a full-point margin at the end of the first day. Mamedyarov was followed by Indian …
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GM Magnus Carlsen got eliminated from the Aimchess Rapid tournament on Wednesday after losing to GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the semifinals. Duda’s next opponent is GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who beat GM Richard Rapport. Duda-Carlsen 3-1 Duda called winning by 3-1 “a big thing” as he mentioned that in their previous match he was 2-0 up …
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Uzbekistan’s GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads the preliminaries of the Aimchess Rapid tournament after four rounds of play. It was GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who stole the show, beating GM Magnus Carlsen and, brilliantly, GM Anish Giri. The Aimchess Rapid tournament is already the last “regular” in the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, before the end-of-season final …
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GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jeffery Xiong, and Alexey Sarana were the three victorious players in their round of 32 matches on Friday as the Chess.com Global Championship continued. Favorites Duda and Xiong had to shake off the nerves early against their respective opponents, but both stabilized the matches and won with 2.5-0.5 scores. Sarana’s path to …
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GM Alireza Firouzja continued his fine run of form in St. Louis in the 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX on Thursday with two key victories over GM Garry Kasparov and previous tournament leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Firouzja’s 2.5/3 score on day two was enough to climb to an equal first alongside GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who …
As the winner of the preliminaries, GM Sam Sevian enters the knockout stage of the FTX Road to Miami tournament as the top seed. The American grandmaster will face GM Wei Yi in the quarterfinals. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who lost to Sevian in the final round, didn’t make it to the knockout and GM Leinier Dominguez …
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GMs Alireza Firouzja and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov both won their first games in round seven of the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic Romania. The third winner was GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who was gifted a full point as his opponent blundered. In a round where both leaders had to accept bloodless draws, the remainder of the field battled at …
