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The Week in Chess

Chess News from throughout the World
  1. GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 - Games and Results

    The GRENKE Chess Classic is a double round robin tournament played at an accelerated 45 minutes plus 10 seconds a move time control. Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, MVL, Richard Rapport, Vincent Keymer and Daniel Fridman play two rounds a day 26th to 31st March 2024. Then on April 1st there is a final set of tie-break matches 1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th and 5th vs 6th to decide the exact final placings.
  2. American Cup 2024 - Games and Results

    The American Cup took place Tue 12th to Thu 21st Mar in Saint Louis. The format was a knock-out tournament with double elimination. A mixture of Classical first and then rapid games are played followed by tie-breaks if required. Open event: Caruana, So, Dominguez, Aronian, Shankland, Robson, Sevian and Oparin. Women's: Krush, Lee, Tokhirjonova, Zatonskih, Paikidze, Abrahamyan, Jennifer Yu, Zoey Tang. Levon Aronian was unbeaten throughout and defeated Wesley So 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. Alice Lee won the women's event, she lost to Irina Krush in the original final, beat her in the Grand Final and then won the final two blitz games in the Grand Final reset.
  3. Reykjavik Open 2024 - Games and Results

    The Reykjavik Open took place 15th to 21st March 2024. Leading players: Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Xiangyu Xu, Jules Moussard, Matthieu Cornette, Paulius Pultinevicius etc. Top seed Bogdan-Daniel Deac won with 7.5/9 half a point clear of the field.
  4. 5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 - Games and Results

    The 5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters takes place 29th February to 7th March 2024. Players: Anish Giri, Arjun Erigaisi, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Bu Xiangzhi, Ma Qun and Xu Xiangyu.
  5. 6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 - Games and Results

    The 6th Prague International Chess Festival takes place Mon 26th Feb (opening ceremony) to Thu 7th Mar 2024. There are two strong Round Robin tournaments. The Masters with Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit, Gukesh, Keymer, Rapport, Maghsoodloo, Navara, Bartel and Thai Dai Van Nguyen. The Challengers isn't too shabby either with Korobov, L'Ami, Santos Latasa, Rodshtein etc. There are other events such as the Futures, Open, Rapids, Chess960 and many amateur groups too.
  6. Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 - Games and Results

    The Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge takes place Fri 9th to 16th Feb 2024. Rapid Round Robin followed by a Knockout at Standard time controls. This is Fischer Random, Chess960, Shuffle Chess by another name. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, D Gukesh, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Ding Liren and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. I don't have the ability to display Chess960 but will try and produce a downloadable file each day. Truthfully I've never found Chess960 at all interesting.
  7. Chessable Masters 2024 - Games and Results

    The Chessable Masters took place Fri 2nd to Wed 7th Feb 2024, the format was double elimination. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Denis Lazavik, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, Vladimir Fedoseev and Alireza Firouzja all competed for the title in Division 1. Carlsen ended up winning the event after beating Denis Lazavik in the winners final and then in the Grand Final he lost to Alireza Firouzja, this meant both Carlsen and Firouzja had lost one match so a final match was played to decide who won, Carlsen did, 2-0. Vincent Keymer beat Levon Aronian in the Division 2 final and has qualified for the next main event, Alexey Sarana beat Alexander Grischuk in the Division 3 final and will play in Division 2 next time.
  8. Wei Yi wins the 2024 Tata Steel Masters after a four player tie-break - 13

    Wei Yi won the Tata Steel Masters for the first time following a tie-break, he had previously won the B-Group way back in 2015. Indeed after becoming a GM at 13 years old and the youngest ever player to reach 2700 at 15 he hasn't really lived up to this promise, this result came a bit out of the blue, and it was a late run of 4.5/5 that took him to a tie-break including a win against Santosh Vidit today. This win is 24 year old Wei Yi's greatest result.

    Four players reached the tie-breaks with wins today. Anish Giri played a super aggressive Reti system against Max Warmerdam and eventually broke through. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won a fluctuating struggle against Alexander Donchenko, he was a bit better, then worse, then equal and finally winning. Parham Maghsoodloo sacrificed unsoundly with 16.Nxf7? against Gukesh, it was a mess though with Gukesh's king very unsafe and for one move he was back in it 29...Ke6? 30.Rb1? (30.dxe4! is almost equal) before Gukesh converted.

    The other games were drawn, Ding Liren vs Ju Wenjun and Ian Nepomniachtchi against Jorden van Foreest quickly, and Praggnanandhaa against Alireza Firouzja very slowly, indeed this fight was the last one to finish in the Masters before the tie-breaks. Praggnanandhaa could have overtaken Anand in the rating list with a win and he came very close, with Firouzja defending excellently and with great effort and determination.

    The tie-breaks were a four player knockout with 3 minute plus 2 seconds a move games. Wei Yi came back from the dead to draw against Abdusattorov in their first game and was worse in the second until it suddenly turned in his favour with an error 34.Bf4? soon the game was level again before a final blunder 38.Bc7 (38.Qe2! is the only playable move). Anish Giri won the first game against Gukesh with white but couldn't hold on to this lead losing the second and the final Armageddon game.

    In the final against Gukesh the first game was drawn and Wei Yi won a long second game where he gradually got a decisive advantage in a long blitz at the end where the players were surviving on the increment.

    This has been a fascinating tournament, lots of fighting chess, lots of mistakes, a big fight at the top but a lot of struggling players too, including the World Champion Ding Liren. I don't know what it says about the state of modern chess. The Candidates should tell us more.

    In the Challengers Leon Luke Mendonca finished with 6.5/7 to win alone and book a place in the Masters next year. IM Arthur Pijpers won the Tienkamp and will play in the Challengers.

    Masters Final Standings: 1st Wei Yi 8.5pts, won the four player tie-break 2nd= Gukesh, Abdusattorov, Giri 8.5pts 5th= Vidit, Praggnanandhaa, Firouzja 7.5pts 8th Nepomniachtchi 6.5pts 9th Ding Liren 6pts 10th= Ju Wenjun, Donchenko, Van Foreest, Maghsoodloo, Parham 4.5pts 14th Warmerdam, Max 4pts

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