6/10/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game between Magnus Carlsen and Jeffery Xiong from the Clutch Chess International. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/4/2020 – Daniil Dubov defeated Hikaru Nakamura to become the champion of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. In the third, deciding rubber of the final, Dubov was the first to score a full point, in game two. Nakamura bounced back with an impressive win and, after a draw in game four, Armageddon was all that was left. An opening catastrophe for Nakamura gave Dubov a winning position as early as move 13 — the Russian duly converted his massive advantage and clinched the title. | Photo: Valeria Gordienko / World Chess

6/3/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the match between Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen at the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge tournament. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/3/2020 – Daniil Dubov defeated Hikaru Nakamura to become the champion of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. In the third, deciding rubber of the final, Dubov was the first to score a full point, in game two. Nakamura bounced back with an impressive win and, after a draw in game four, Armageddon was all that was left. An opening catastrophe for Nakamura gave Dubov a winning position as early as move 13 — the Russian duly converted his massive advantage and clinched the title. | Photo: Niki Riga / World Chess

6/3/2020 – The winner of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge will be decided on Wednesday, as Daniil Dubov beat Hikaru Nakamura in the final's second rubber to tie the overall score. Dubov won game one and drew the remaining three. Hard-pressed to win in game four, Nakamura tried the Leningrad Variation of the Dutch Defence, but to no avail — Dubov kept the balance until securing the all-important half point. | Photo: Niki Riga / World Chess

6/2/2020 – Hikaru Nakamura stormed ahead in the first leg of the $150,000 Rapid Challenge final today. The American, fresh from toppling World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the semi, showed all his cool, calm skills to race into a 2:0 lead almost without breaking a sweat. After four games Nakamura was leading 2½:1½. Tomorrow, former World Rapid Champion Daniil Dubov will be back gunning to turn the match around. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

5/31/2020 – Hikaru Nakamura bounced back from a 0:3 loss in the first mini-match of the semi-finals by winning the next two rubbers to knock out world champion Magnus Carlsen from the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. The third mini-match went down to the wire, with Nakamura choosing black in the Armageddon decider and beating Carlsen after the latter first achieved a favourable position and then blundered away the game. Nakamura will face Daniil Dubov in the final, starting Monday. | Photos: Austin Fuller / FIDE

5/30/2020 – Hikaru Nakamura beat Magnus Carlsen in the second mini-match of their semi-final at the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, scoring a win in the first encounter and drawing the remaining three games. The match will be decided in Saturday's third rubber. Meanwhile, Daniil Dubov defeated Ding Liren for a second day in a row to secure a spot in the final. | Photos: Niki Riga / Lennart Ootes

5/29/2020 – The first rubber of the Lindores Abbey Challenge semi-finals were played on Thursday. Magnus Carlsen displayed enterprising chess to obtain a commanding 3:0 victory over Hikaru Nakamura, while Daniil Dubov v Ding Liren seemed to be headed to Armageddon when the Russian made good use of Ding's inaccurate play in a rook endgame to win the mini-match before reaching the tiebreaker. | Photos: Amruta Mokal / Lennart Ootes

5/28/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the match between Sergey Karjakin and Daniil Dubov at the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge tournament. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/28/2020 – Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren won their third, deciding mini-matches of the Lindores Abbey quarter-finals and are set to face each other in the semis. Dubov won three in a row to take down Sergey Karjakin in an 11-game match-up that had 11 decisive results, while Ding drew with black in the Armageddon tiebreaker to move on to the next stage of the knockout, leaving his compatriot Yu Yangyi out of contention. | Photos: FIDE / Lennart Ootes

5/27/2020 – Magnus Carlsen is the second player to secure a place in the semi-finals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. The world champion once again dispatched Wesley So in three games to set up a match-up against Hikaru Nakamura. Meanwhile, Sergey Karjakin tied the overall score with Daniil Dubov after winning a tough second rubber — who advances to the semis will be decided on Wednesday. | Photos: Lennart Ootes / Niki Riga

5/26/2020 – Speed chess king Hikaru Nakamura bulldozed his way into the semi-finals — the world's top blitz player made short work of Levon Aronian as he crushed the Armenian 3:1 in their Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge mini-match and 2:0 overall. Nakamura, already ahead in the tie after winning on Saturday, raced into the lead with a first game win in today's second best-of-three rubber. | Photos: Lennart Ootes / FIDE

5/25/2020 – The second pair of mini-matches in the quarter-finals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge finished much more quickly than Saturday's encounters. Magnus Carlsen and Daniil Dubov needed only three games to defeat Wesley So and Sergey Karjakin respectively. Dubov in fact won all three games, while Carlsen survived a scare in the second game and saw his opponent agreeing to a quick draw in the third. | Photos: Lennart Ootes / V. Saravanan

5/23/2020 – The first mini-matches of the Lindores Abbey quarter-finals went down to the wire, as Hikaru Nakamura and Yu Yangyi got wins over Levon Aronian and Ding Liren in Armageddon tiebreakers. While Yu and Ding drew all four rapid games prior to the sudden-death decider, Nakamura came back from behind to tie the score in the fourth game of regulation. Aronian and Ding will get a chance to bounce back on Monday, when the second pair of mini-matches will take place. | Photos: Lennart Ootes

5/21/2020 – Four players dropped out of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge after the preliminary single round robin finished on Thursday. Alexander Grischuk was eliminated on tiebreaks despite getting a last-round win over Wei Yi. Wei, Alireza Firouzja and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are also out of contention. The round robin was won by Hikaru Nakamura, who collected 7½ points in 11 games. The quarter-finals kick off on Saturday. | Photos: Lennart Ootes / Vladimir Jagr

5/21/2020 – No one scored more than 2½ points on day two of the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge, as Hikaru Nakamura and Sergey Karjakin remain as co-leaders after round eight. Magnus Carlsen had a subpar performance, losing to Yu Yangyi and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and is now sharing third place with Wesley So. In the fight to get a pass to the quarter-finals, Alireza Firouzja and Wei Yi will need to step up their game in the last three rounds of the preliminaries in order to stay in the tournament. | Photos: Georgios Souleidis / Amruta Mokal

5/20/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the game between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played at the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge tournament. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/20/2020 – The four first rounds of the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge were played on Tuesday, and four players are sharing the lead on 3 points. Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura won with white and drew with black, Wesley So also won two despite playing three times with black, while Sergey Karjakin won three games and lost one. The twelve-player round-robin that continues until Thursday will eliminate the bottom four before the knockout kicks off after a rest day. | Photos: Lennart Ootes