Tata Steel Chess R7: Gukesh beats Harikrishna, joins the lead

1/26/2025 – Gukesh Dommaraju, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Nodirbek Abdusattorov lead the Tata Steel Masters after seven rounds, with Gukesh defeating Pentala Harikrishna to join the leading pack. Vladimir Fedoseev also impressed, beating Vincent Keymer to claim sole fourth place. In the Challengers, Thai Dai Van Nguyen caught Erwin l'Ami at the top after defeating Faustino Oro, while 14-year-old Lu Miaoyi continued her strong run with a third victory, defeating Divya Deshmukh. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess / Jurriaan Hoefsmit

Tata Steel Chess R2: Five co-leaders

1/20/2025 – Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won in the second round of the Tata Steel Masters. All three of them joined the leading pack, which also includes Vincent Keymer and Gukesh Dommaraju. In the Challengers, seven players (exactly half the field) are sharing first place with 1½ out of 2 points. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess / Lennart Ootes

60m English New ideas in the Najdorf_E

‘New ideas in the Najdorf – a Power Play 18 Update’ aims to complement Daniel King’s popular DVD from last year ‘The Sicilian Najdorf - a repertoire for Black’. Such a dynamic and popular opening as the Najdorf is developing the whole time. On this download, Daniel King updates lines that were included on his DVD but also responds to viewers’ requests, considering lines that he omitted from his original repertoire. The lines examined on this update are: • 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2 • 5….a6 6 Bc4 in combination with the English Attack (Be3, f3 etc) • 5…a6 6 Be3 and the …a5 variation • 5…a6 6 Be2 and 9 Re1 • 5 f3 (instead of 5 Nc3) It isn’t necessary to have seen the original Najdorf DVD to understand the lines examined here – but it would help as they form part of a complete repertoire.