5/16/2024 – Alireza Firouzja beat Magnus Carlsen to claim overall victory in the second event of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour, the Chess.com Classic. Since Firouzja reached the deciding match from the lower bracket, beating Carlsen in the 4-game Grand Final only forced a Reset — which the youngster went on to win as well. Firouzja won both matches in Armageddon.

5/15/2024 – The 2024 Chess.com Classic is the second of four events preceding the Champions Chess Tour in-person Finals. Day 5 of the event sees Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer facing each other in the Division I winners’ bracket final. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Denis Lazavik, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alireza Firouzja remain in contention in the lower bracket. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 18.30 CEST (12.30 ET, 22.00 IST)

5/15/2024 – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave prevailed in an exciting pair of matches against Wesley So to win Division II of the Chess.com Classic. So reached the Grand Final by winning the losers’ bracket, which meant he needed to beat MVL twice to claim the title. The US grandmaster did win the first 4-game match in Armageddon, but was then defeated by his French colleague in the Grand Final Reset.

5/14/2024 – Alireza Firouzja set up a showdown against Magnus Carlsen by winning the losers’ bracket of Division I in the Chess.com Classic. On Monday, Firouzja knocked out Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Vincent Keymer to reach the Grand Final of the online tournament. The deciding match between Firouzja and Carlsen will take place on Wednesday. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Lennart Ootes

5/13/2024 – Right after obtaining an impressive triumph at the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Tournament in Poland, Magnus Carlsen defeated Vincent Keymer to reach the Grand Final of the Chess.com Classic. The Norwegian will now get two rest days before facing the winner of the lower bracket, where Keymer, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Alireza Firouzja remain in contention. | Photo: chess.com / Thomas Tischio

5/12/2024 – Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer advanced to the Divsion I final match in the winners’ bracket of the Chess.com Classic after obtaining convincing victories over Denis Lazavik and Jan-Krzysztof Duda respectively. In the lower bracket, elite GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alireza Firouzja grabbed victories to remain in contention in the double-elimination knockout tournament. | Photo: Lars OA Hedlund

5/11/2024 – The knockout phase of the Chess.com Classic kicked off on Friday. Division I saw Magnus Carlsen, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Vincent Keymer and Denis Lazavik advancing in the winners’ bracket. Lazavik got the better of Ian Nepomniachtchi — though Nepo is much higher rated than his young opponent, it is by this point not a big surprise that the 17-year-old beat a nominally stronger player. | Photo: chess.com

5/10/2024 – On the second day of the Chess.com Classic the knockout rounds of the play-in were played to decide who would make it to Division I. After dramatic knockout matches Velimir Ivic (pictured), Denis Lazavik, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Sarana and Jan-Krzysztof Duda qualified, but co-favourites Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana will have to be content with playing in Division II.