10/2/2021 – In the 6th round of the "Meltwater Champions Chess Tour" played on Friday Wesley So has suffered a significant setback, which may prove to be decisive: In his 1:3 against Teimour Radjabov, Wesley So, 2nd in the standings, failed to score, while Carlsen, still occupying the top spot, extended his lead by two more points in the overall ranking thanks to his victory (in a tiebreak) against Anish Giri. The world champion's lead over So is now 7 points - almost insurmountable given that there is only a maximum of 9 points still to be earned. The tournament organizers might therefore soon proclaim Magnus Carlsen as the "world's top online chess player" as the potential winner of the tournament. | Fotos: Play Magnus Group

8/26/2021 – With all five games drawn on Wednesday, Vachier-Lagrave is leading the Sinquefield Cup, half a point ahead of Caruana, So, and Dominguez heading into the final round. At the same time, American Grandmaster Wesley So has clinched first place in the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, securing a minimum of 7 GCT points from the Sinquefield Cup. He can no longer be mathematically caught in the overall tour standings. For his efforts, So earns the $100,000 first place bonus prize. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

8/25/2021 – This week, Merijn van Delft analyses Jeffery Xiong’s victory over Fabiano Caruana from the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup. The game was fairly messy — an oft-seen feature in modern-day chess. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

8/18/2021 – This week, Merijn van Delft takes a look at Fabiano Caruana's fine attacking win against Sam Shankland in the first round of the Sinquefied Cup 2021. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

8/11/2021 – This week, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine attacking game between Wesley So and Le Quang Liem from the finals of the Chessable Masters Online Rapid Tournament, which was won by So. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

8/9/2021 – A draw in the second set of the finals was enough for Wesley So to secure first place at the second edition of the Chessable Masters. The Filipino-born grandmaster thus obtained his third title in this year’s Champions Chess Tour. Le Quang Liem finished in a remarkable second place, while Vladislav Artemiev got the bronze after beating Levon Aronian in the match for third place.

8/8/2021 – Wesley So convincingly won the first of the finals at the Chessable Masters by twice beating Le Quang Liem after launching successful sacrificial attacks. Meanwhile, Levon Aronian and Vladislav Artemiev drew the first set in the match for third place. | Photo: Meltwater Champions Chess Tour

8/7/2021 – Le Quang Liem and Wesley So made it into the finals of the Chessable Masters after eliminating Levon Aronian and Vladislav Artemiev respectively. Le’s match went to Armageddon, while So drew the second set after having won the first 4-game mini-match. Expert analyses by GM Karsten Müller. | Photo: Champions Chess Tour

8/1/2021 – While players and enthusiasts took a day off from the highly tense World Cups in Sochi, the online Chessable Masters kicked off with an eye-catching lineup, as 12-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra, women’s world champion Ju Wenjun and Indian star Humpy Koneru join the likes of Wesley So and Levon Aronian in the 9-day event. After five rounds, So is the sole leader on 4 points, with a 3-player chasing pack a half point behind. | Pictured: Wesley So and Pentala Harikrishna at the 2019 Riga Grand Prix

6/23/2021 – Thanks to a remarkable performance in the second half of the blitz section, Wesley So won the Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament with one round to spare. The Filipino-born grandmaster finished the tournament three points clear of second-placed Ian Nepomniachtchi, after losing only one out of the 27 games played in the French capital. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/21/2021 – Wesley So is leading the Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament after getting an undefeated 11/18 score in the rapid section. On Sunday, the Filipino-born grandmaster won two out of his three games to go into the blitz phase of the event a full point ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi. Eighteen rounds of blitz games will be played on Monday and Tuesday. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/4/2021 – The final of the FTX Crypto Cup, which ended on Monday, could hardly have been more exciting, as Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So fought a thrilling duel that Carlsen only won with a victory in the eleventh and final encounter, the Armageddon game. The stakes were high for both sides and Carlsen and So made a few more or less serious mistakes and allowed themselves some unpleasantly short draws, but all in all the level of the match was still high. Daniel King took a closer look at the "best game" of the final. | Photos: Lennart Ootes