Prague Chess Festival: Masters and Challengers live

by ChessBase
3/7/2025 – From 26 February to 7 March, ten top grandmasters, including Wei Yi, Praggnanandhaa, Le Quang Liem and Vincent Keymer, will play for tournament victory and prize money in the Prague Masters. The Masters is part of the 7th Prague Chess Festival that also includes a Challengers tournament, an Open and many attractive side events. Round 6 of the Masters and the Challengers starts at 15.00 local time. Follow the games live and with commentary by Sagar Shah and Harshit Raja.

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Standings after round 8

Masters

Challengers

Live games Masters

Live games Challengers

Live commentary with Sagar Shah and Harshit Raja

Participants Masters 2025

  • Wei, Yi (China) 2755
  • Praggnanandhaa R (India) 2741
  • Le, Quang Liem (Vietnam) 2739
  • Keymer, Vincent (Germany) 2731
  • Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. (India) 2729
  • Giri, Anish (Netherlands) 2728
  • Navara, David (Czech Republic) 2677
  • Shankland, Sam (United States) 2670
  • Nguyen, Thai Dai Van (Czech Republic) 2668
  • Gürel, Ediz (Türkiye) 2624

Participants Challengers 2025

  • Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan) 2659
  • Ma Qun (China) 2645
  • Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark) 2640
  • Ivan Salgado Lopez (Spain) 2599
  • Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (Greece) 2580
  • Marc'Andria Maurizzi (France) 2579
  • Divya Deshmukh (India) 2490
  • Vaclav Finek (Czech Republic) 2478
  • Richard Stalmach (Czech Republic) 2449
  • Jachym Nemec (Czech Republic) 2433

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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.