Day 2 of the CrunchLab Masters saw players fighting to enter the double-elimination knockouts in the Division Placement stage. At the end of the day, five well-known names qualified to the Division I knockout, where they will join Magnus Carlsen and co. as they battle for a spot in this year’s end-of-season Tour Finals. A […]
Monthly Archives: July 2024
All three games finished drawn in round 3 of the Masters Triathlon at the Biel Chess Festival, which means Abhimanyu Mishra remains as the sole leader in the 6-player event. In the Challengers section, the lowest-rated participant, Vaishali R, continues to perform flawlessly, as she won her third classical game in a row. Vaishali thus […]
Ziaur Rahman, the second grandmaster of Bangladesh and the player to have reached the highest rating in his country (2570), passed away on 5 July while playing a game of chess at the Bangladeshi National Championships. He suffered a heart attack and collapsed to the ground. Ziaur was just 50 years old. In this article, […]
The first stage of the CrunchLab Masters, the Play-In, took place on Wednesday. Ian Nepomniachtchi, Mikhail Antipov and Hikaru Nakamura were the top scorers in the 9-round Swiss open featuring 118 players. The aforementioned GMs were 3 of the 11 participants who qualified to the Division I Placement stage. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik was […]
Abhimanyu Mishra took the lead at the Masters Triathlon in Biel. Thanks to his victory over Sam Shankland, the youngest GM in history climbed to the top of the standings. He also benefited from the fact that the other games ended in draws, in particular from the fact that Haik Martirosyan was unable to capitalise […]
The strongest junior and senior chess players in the United States have returned to Saint Louis. On July 16-26, the top 10 players across three divisions – juniors, girls, and seniors – are competing for more than $135,000 in prizes. | Follow all the games live with expert commentary, starting at 20.00 CEST (14.00 ET, […]
Daniel Dardha grabbed his fourth national title at the 2024 Belgian Chess Championship, which took place on 6-13 July at the Sint-Gummarus College in Liege. A final-round victory granted the 18-year-old overall victory, as he outscored Stefan Beukema by a mere half point. Mher Hovhannisyan and Sim Maerevoet tied for third place, with Hovhannisyan completing […]
The European Chess Union and the Montenegro Chess Federation are inviting all National Chess Federations and eligible players to participate in the European Individual Chess Championship 2024, to be held from 7-20 November in Petrovac, Montenegro. Total prize fund: 100,000 Euros. But even if you don’t win, just look at the backdrop of the event.
Chess prodigy Abhimaynu Mishra scored a major victory in the first round of classical chess at the Masters Triathlon in Biel, as he managed to take down elite GM Praggnanandhaa with the black pieces. Defending champion Le Quang Liem beat Vincent Keymer to grab the lead in the standings. Meanwhile in the Challengers, all three […]
Max Warmerdam was the rating favourite in the open competition of the Dutch Championships. He defeated Sergey Tiviakov in the final to win the event. Somewhat surprisingly, Maaike Keetman defeated multiple national champion Anne Kuipers-Haast 2-0 in the final of the women’s tournament. | Photos: Harry Gielen