Tan Zhongyi is the clear winner of the Women's Candidates 2024

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Mark Crowther (Mon Apr 22 01:56:00 2024)

Tan Zhongyi will challenge Ju Wenjun for the World Chess Championship in 2025. The 32 year old player was not the favourite for the event but her confident play dominated with only a round 8 loss to her closest challenger Lei Tingjie as a blemish in the event. In the final round Tan played a very sharp Sicilian against Anna Muzychuk. Tan secured a big advantage but steered the game to the draw she needed. Lei needed a win and played an amazing Queen sacrifice against Humpy Koneru. Eventually her compensation disappeared and she subsided to a loss. Read more ....

• Tan Zhongyi on the verge of winning the Women's Candidates tournament
• Tan Zhongyi and Lei Tingjie both draw in Round 12 of the Women's Candidates
• Tan leads Lei half a point after 11 rounds in a two horse race for the Women's Candidates
• Lei join Tan in the lead of the Women's Candidates on 6.5/10

Gukesh is the youngest ever winner of the Candidates at 17 years old

FIDE Candidates 2024 14

Mark Crowther (Mon Apr 22 01:43:00 2024)

Dommaraju Gukesh won the FIDE Candidates at the age of 17 years old. He comfortably held a draw against Hikaru Nakamura in the final round of the event. Fabiano Caruana built up a winning position against double defending champion Ian Nepomaniachtchi but a blunder on the first move after first time control allowed a draw and Gukesh's victory. Gukesh should play Ding Liren later in the year for the World Title. Ding seems to have had some kind of personal crisis since taking the title and has hardly played, and when he has it's not been very good play. Read more ....

• 17 year-old Gukesh leads the Candidates alone with one round to go
• Gukesh, Nakamura and Nepomniachtchi lead the Candidates going into the final two rounds
• Nepomniachtchi beats Vidit in a tense struggle to lead the Candidates alone again on 7/11
• Nakamura and Caruana win to get back into contention after 10 rounds of the Candidates

GRENKE Chess Classic 2024

GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Tue Mar 26 16:23:00 2024)

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. Read more ....

American Cup 2024

American Cup 2024 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Mar 22 21:12:00 2024)

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. Read more ....

Reykjavik Open 2024

Reykjavik Open 2024 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Mar 22 18:56:00 2024)

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. Read more ....

5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024

5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 29 11:53:00 2024)

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. Read more ....

6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024

6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Mon Feb 26 18:32:00 2024)

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. Read more ....