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7/15/2024 – Fabiano Caruana was simply unstoppable at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Tournament in Croatia. The US star claimed his second consecutive victory in a Grand Chess Tour event with five rounds to spare, after entering the final day of action with a 4½-point lead and scoring 3½ points in the first four rounds played on Sunday. In a close battle for second place, Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ended up tied with 23 points each. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/14/2024 – Fabiano Caruana has a 4½-point lead over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Wesley So going into the final 9 rounds of blitz at the SuperUnited Tournament in Zagreb. MVL was the top scorer on Saturday, as he obtained 6½/9 points after collecting 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/13/2024 – Fabiano Caruana continues to impress at the SuperUnited Tournament in Croatia. The US star entered the third day of action as the sole leader and scored three consecutive wins to win the rapid section and go into the final two days of blitz with a 3-point lead over Wesley So. The remaining US representative, Levon Aronian, stands in sole third place. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/12/2024 – Fabiano Caruana emerged as sole leader after rounds 4-6 were played on Thursday at the SuperUnited Tournament in Croatia. Wesley So, who grabbed 1 win and 2 draws for a second consecutive day, stands in sole second place, while a resurgent Gukesh is now tied for third with Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/11/2024 – The first three rounds of rapid action at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Tournament in Croatia saw Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scoring two wins and one draw to become the early sole leader in Zagreb. MVL defeated Levon Aronian and Ivan Saric in the first two rounds before holding a draw in a pawn-down endgame against Wesley So. Tied for second place at a 1-point distance (wins are worth 2 points in the rapid) are So and Fabiano Caruana. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/6/2024 – An exciting final day of action at the Superbet Chess Classic saw Fabiano Caruana first losing his round-9 classical game against Anish Giri and then convincingly prevailing in a 4-way rapid playoff. Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa and Alireza Firouzja finished the classical section tied for first with Caruana after Firouzja failed to make the most of a considerable advantage in his game against Pragg. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/5/2024 – A second consecutive round with all games ending drawn took place on Thursday at the Superbet Chess Classic in Romania. Fabiano Caruana thus continues to lead the standings, with Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa and Alireza Firouzja sharing second place a half point behind the US star. The tournament’s final round will see Caruana playing black against Anish Giri. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/4/2024 – The seventh round of the Superbet Chess Classic saw all five games ending drawn for a third time in the event — much like in the two previous occasions, it was not for a lack of fighting spirit, though. Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So failed to convert superior positions against Dommaraju Gukesh and Nodirbek Abdusattorov respectively. The results left Caruana in sole first place with two round to go. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/3/2024 – In the one decisive game of round 6 at the Superbet Chess Classic, Alireza Firouzja obtained a convincing victory with the white pieces over Wesley So. Firouzja thus climbed to shared second place in the tournament standings, as he now has as many points as Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh — the three chasers stand a half point behind sole leader Fabiano Caruana with three rounds to go in Bucharest. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/2/2024 – All games in round 5 of the Superbet Chess Classic ended drawn, leaving Fabiano Caruana as the sole leader in the standings. The biggest chance missed on Sunday was Praggnanandhaa’s, who failed to make the most of a mistake made by Wesley So. Pragg is tied for second place with Gukesh, who drew his game with white against Nodirbek Abdusattorov. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/1/2024 – The main event of the León Chess Festival was the León Masters, a 4-player knockout tournament featuring Arjun Erigaisi, Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov and Jaime Santos. In its 37th edition, the event saw Anand grabbing his tenth title after beating Topalov in the semis and defending champion Santos in the final. Local hero Santos stunned top seed Arjun in their semifinal encounter. | Photo: Luque
6/30/2024 – Faustino Oro scored 6½/9 points at the “Cerrado IM Barcelona” to become the youngest International Master in the history of chess. The Argentine prodigy gained his third IM norm at 10 years, 8 months and 16 days, thus breaking Abhimanyu Mishra’s record by less than a month. Remarkably, Oro has already surpassed the 2400-rating mark as well, and even gained more rating at the event in Barcelona. | Photo: Federico Marín Bellón / El Mundo
6/30/2024 – Fabiano Caruana obtained a convincing victory over Bogdan-Daniel Deac to become the sole leader at the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest. Tied for second place are Indian prodigies Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh. On Saturday, Pragg got the better of Anish Giri in a gripping 80-move encounter. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/28/2024 – Fabiano Caruana and D Gukesh continue to share the lead at the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest, as the one decisive result of round 2 saw Alireza Firouzja beating Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Since Firouzja had lost to Caruana in the first round, this victory only allowed him to return to a fifty-percent score. Importantly, co-leader Caruana failed to make the most of a clearly better position in his game with white against Wesley So. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/27/2024 – The Superbet Chess Classic saw two out of five games ending decisively on the first day of action. Fabiano Caruana and D Gukesh became the early co-leaders by beating Alireza Firouzja and Bogdan-Daniel Deac respectively. Both games featured considerable changes in evaluation, as the double-edged positions that appeared on the boards provoked mistakes by all involved parties. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/26/2024 – The 37th edition of the “Magistral Ciudad de León” will take place on June 28-30 at the city’s Auditorium. Jaime Satnos will attempt to defend his title against two living legends and a rising star: Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov and Arjun Erigaisi. In 2023, Santos became the second Spaniard to win the event after beating Boris Gelfand in the final.
6/24/2024 – The Superbet Chess Classic, the second event in this year’s Grand Chess Tour, is set to take place from June 26 to July 5 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest in Romania’s capital. All nine GCT regulars will participate, and will be joined by local rising star Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Defending champion Fabiano Caruana is the rating favourite, with Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured, center) and Nodirbek Abdusattorov the second and third seeds respectively. | Photo: Grand Chess Tour 2023 / Lennart Ootes
6/23/2024 – The English Championships came to an end on Sunday in Kenilworth. Both the open and the women’s sections were decided in rapid tiebreakers, with Gawain Jones beating Michael Adams in the open and Elmira Mirzoeva beating Katarzyna Toma in the women’s. Coincidentally, both champions entered the final round of the event standing a half point behind the players they would later beat in the playoffs. | Photo: London Chess Classic
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
Knights add irrational content to any position. However, in this video tutorial you will learn how to tame them.
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