Best games of the Prague Chess Festival 2024

by Shahid Ahmed
3/23/2024 – Saving the best for the last is a popular saying. The sixth edition of the Prague International Chess Festival awarded best-game prizes for each round. There was also a prize for the most spectacular game of the tournament named Lubomír Kaválek Prize. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won it for his round-8 victory over Parham Maghsoodloo. In this article, we share with you the games which won the prize each round, with commentary by ChessBase India’s Amruta Mokal and Sagar Shah | Photo: Petr Vrabec
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Best of the best

The seventh edition of the Prague International Chess Festival will take place from 25 February to 7 March 2025 as mentioned on the tournament’s homepage.

Round 1: Praggnanandhaa - Keymer

R Praggnanandhaa v. Vincent Keymer — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu

Game of the day winner — GM R Praggnanandhaa | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Round 2: Maghsoodloo - Praggnanandhaa

Parham Maghsoodloo v. R Praggnanandhaa — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

Round 3: Abdusattorov - Navara

Nodirbek Abdusattorov v. R Praggnanandhaa — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Round-3 winner of the game of the day prize — Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Round 4: Stalmach - Vaishali

Vaishali Rameshbabu

GM R Vaishali receives the prize for her win over Richard Stalmach | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Round 5: Praggnanandhaa - Vidit

R Praggnanandhaa v. Vidit Gujrathi — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

Round 6: Thai Dai Van - Maghsoodloo

One of the best wins in GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen’s career

Thai Dai Van Nguyen

GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen smilingly receives his prize | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Round 7: Maghsoodloo - Vidit

Parham Maghsoodloo v. Vidit Gujrathi — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

Round 8: Abdusattorov - Maghsoodloo

Nodirbek Abdusattorov v. Parham Maghsoodloo — commentary by IM Sagar Shah

The Lubomír Kaválek Prize for the best game of the tournament was awarded for the first time at the Prague International Chess Festival 2021. The award is named after the late Czech-American Grandmaster Lubomír Kaválek (1943-2021), who has been awarded many times during his career for playing the best, most beautiful or, if you like, the most interesting games.

The eighth-round game between Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) and Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI) won the Most Spectacular Game of the Tournament prize.

Round 9: Korobov - Gurel

15-year-old Ediz Gurel won the Challengers section and became Türkiye’s youngest GM

Ediz Gurel

Ediz Gurel became Türkiye’s youngest Grandmaster, won the Challengers and earned himself a place in the Masters next year | Photo: Anežka Kružíková

Video gallery

The legend of chess compositions — Yochanan Afek | Video: ChessBase India

A visionary billionaire who ran for president in Czechia and regularly practices skydiving — Karel Janecek | Video: ChessBase India

This man is building chess in the Czech Republic in a massive way step by step — Roman Mužík | Video: ChessBase India

This 11-year-old who won the Prague Futures speeds like young Vishy — Aansh Nerurkar | Video: ChessBase India

The life story of Dina Belenkaya — Woman Grandmaster, content creator and interviewer | Video: ChessBase India

9 things that made the Prague International Festival 2024 special | Video: ChessBase India

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Shahid Ahmed is the senior coordinator and editor of ChessBase India. He enjoys covering chess tournaments and also likes to play in chess events from time to time.