The battle for victory in the rapid chess tournament in Saint Louis was a duel between Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian. In the final round, world champion Gukesh Dommaraju added some excitement with a victory over Caruana. However, Aronian was unable to capitalise on Caruana’s defeat. | Photos: Lennart Ootes
Monthly Archives: August 2025
Vincent Keymer claimed his fourth victory of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters in round seven, defeating Awonder Liang with black to extend his lead in the standings and become the first German since Robert Hübner to enter the world’s top ten. Karthikeyan Murali and Nihal Sarin also won in the Masters, while Pranesh M and […]
Levon Aronian was unable to repeat his strong performance from the previous day on the second day of the rapid chess tournament in Saint Louis. In the sixth round, he lost to Fabiano Caruana in the top match and relinquished the lead. Aronian shares second place with Weskey So going into the third day of […]
Vincent Keymer retained his one-point lead in the Masters section of the tournament in Chennai after drawing with Arjun Erigaisi in their much-anticipated round-six clash. Wins for Jorden van Foreest, against Nihal Sarin, and Awonder Liang, over Pranav Venkatesh, brought the latter level with Arjun in second place. In the Challengers, Abhimanyu Puranik suffered his […]
Pavel Eljanov, the top seed by Elo rating, has won the Zeeland Open at the HZ University of Applied Science in Vlissingen, a Dutch city in the county of Zeeland, edging out Eelke de Boer on tiebreaks after both finished level on points. Full report by Gerd Dening. | Photos: Gerd Densing and Tina Rouwendal […]
Recently, a 17-year-old player in Germany won the national girls’ under-18 tournament. The head of the German commission for women’s chess was less thrilled. The winner, you know, who identifies and officially categorizes as female, was born as a boy. Dominic Lawson, who writes for many major British newspapers, a strong chess player (and president […]
The fourth event of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour is the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament. Taking place on 11-15 August, the event starts with 9 rounds of rapid action, followed by 18 rounds of blitz. Included in the field are the three frontrunners in the race to win the Grand Chess Tour: Alireza […]
In the 2025 Vlissingen Open, 2117-rated Joel Van der Werf, playing Black, faced Dutch GM Erwin l’Ami, nearly 500 rating points higher, and impressively outplayed him for much of the game. Using precise, prophylactic pawn moves and harmonious piece coordination, Van der Werf steadily restricted White’s activity, expanded on the kingside, and reached a clearly […]
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Vincent Keymer kept the sole lead in the main section of the Chennai Grand Masters after drawing with Anish Giri, while Nihal Sarin scored his first win by defeating top seed Arjun Erigaisi. Karthikeyan Murali also won, against Jorden van Foreest. Keymer leads on 3½ points, a full point ahead of Arjun. In the Challengers, […]