GM Magnus Carlsen finished the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in style as he also won his seventh and final match, against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The world champion scored a stunning 20/21, seven points more than runner-up GM Wesley So.
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GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two biggest stars of football (soccer), are playing chess in Louis Vuitton's latest campaign, launched on Saturday. Chess fans quickly discovered that the position on the board is from a real game.
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GM Wesley So triumphed at the inaugural Chess.com Global Championship, defeating GM Nihal Sarin in the final with two games to spare. Unfazed by a couple of recent performances, So showed us what it means to be a grandmaster of his caliber, coming...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two biggest stars of football (soccer), can be seen playing chess in Louis Vutton's latest campaign, launched on Saturday. Chess fans quickly discovered that the position on the board is from a real game.
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GM Magnus Carlsen clinched the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals with a round to spare as he won his sixth match on Saturday, against GM Praggnanandhaa R. GM Wesley So is in second place, but five points behind Carlsen, after beating GM Jan-Kr...
GM Wesley So gained a commanding two-point lead in the Chess.com Global Championship final, winning twice with white and drawing both games with black. Despite playing more adventurously than usual, sacrificing in nearly every game, So went undefe...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fifth match in a row at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals but lost his perfect score as GM Le Quang Liem only went down in the armageddon game of their tiebreak. The Vietnamese GM thereby took one match point…
GMs Wesley So and Nihal Sarin confirmed their progression to the Chess.com Global Championship final after winning arduous semifinal matches on Saturday. The players will compete for the top prize of $200,000, and the winner will be crowned the in...
GMs Wesley So and Anish Giri almost hit the front in their respective semifinals against GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nihal Sarin at the Chess.com Global Championship on Friday but were both held to 2-2 following some resolute defense by their opponent...