Azerbeijani GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who yesterday was in place nine, smoothly defeated the leader in the event, Fabiano Caruana, and advanced to fifth place. Hikaru Nakamura beat Aryan Tari. D Gukesh, Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen won their matches in the Armageddon tiebreaks. You can replay all the games with machine analysis on our live […]
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Today Magnus Carlsen faces Anish Giri with white. Fabiano Caruana will want to extend his commanding lead in the event with a win over Shakh Mamedyarov. Wesley So wants to climb from place seven by beating Alireza Firouzja. And most people wil be watching the battle of the super-prodigies: D Gukesh of India vs Nodirbek […]
Earlier this year, he drew against the world no.1 at 85th Tata Steel Masters 2023. Yesterday D Gukesh drew his second Classical rated game ever against Magnus Carlsen, but lost the Armageddon. Fabiano Caruana scored the sole Classical victory of the round, with black against Alireza Firouzja. All photos in this article are by Lennart […]
It was (as predicted) a very exciting round: Fabiano Caruana beat Alireza Firouzja in the classical game with black, young super-talent Gukesh exerted pressure on Magnus Carlsen – then drew and lost the Armageddon. Similarly Anish Giri drew and lost to Hikaru Nakamura, third. You can replay the games with machine annotations here and watch […]
It’s going to be a very exciting round: the players leading in the event face each other: Alireza Firouzja, second, has white against leader Fabiano Caruana. Young super-talent Gukesh dauntingly faces the world’s strongest player Magnus Carlsen. And Anish Giri, fifth, will be eager to trade places with Hikaru Nakamura, third. Round 4 starts at […]
Genrikh Kasparyan is widely regarded as one of the most prolific endgame study composers and shared his knowledge with a younger generation. So his son Sergey also composed endgame studies – 56 are in the database, including versions and corrections. But also other friends from Genrikh’s endgame studies teaching circle created interesting ones themselves or […]
Today, 3 June 2023, Nils Grandelius celebrates his 30th birthday. Grandelius is known as his country’s long-time leading player, an important member of the Swedish team, and has won several major international tournaments in his career to date. Grandelius worked as Magnus Carlsen’s second for the World Chess Championship matches in 2016 and 2018, and […]
India’s young talents Vidit Gujrathi and Raunak Sadhwani got off to a great start in round one, when they defeated veterans Peter Svidler and Nigel Short respectively in the first classical game. In round two Nigel and Peter bounced back by scoring emphatic victories over Raunak and Vidit. The match score is now 1-1. Our […]
India’s young talents Vidit Gujrathi and Raunak Sadhwani got off to a great start in round one, when they defeated veterans Peter Svidler and Nigel Short respectively in the first classical game. In round two Nigel and Peter bounced back by scoring emphatic victories over Raunak and Vidit. The match score is now 1-1. Our […]
Once upon a time we all looked quite different – even some famous chess players. Our author has selected some childhood and youth photographs of famous chess grandmasters and invites you to guess. For example, who are the two perky new wave girls? Background singers from A-ha?