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Gukesh D became the youngest winner of the Candidates tournament held in Toronto, Canada, also becoming the youngest World Championship challenger and will face reigning champion Ding Liren from China later this year.

For the first time, the eight-player Champions Chess Tour Finals will be held fully in person and over the board from December 9 to 16 in Toronto, Canada. The winner will be crowned Tour Champion 2023 and pick up the $200,000 first prize in addition to winnings already earned. Carlsen, the world number-one and reigning Tour champion, and Nakamura, the world’s top chess streamer, have dominated the 2023 season so far and their rivalry has been a joy to watch. But they will face stiff competitio...

The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the fifth event of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. The tournament, taking place from August 30 to September 3, features three divisions, each a double-elimination knockout, where if you lose one match you drop to a lower bracket and can still win the tournament. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 EDT, 20.30 IST)

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand's 37-year reign as the top chess player in India was broken on Thursday by the 17-year-old teenage

The 17-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh won two games in his second-round match with GM Misratdin Iskandarov in the first round of the FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan to surge past Viswanathan Anand in Live Rating and become the highest-ranked ...

Wesley So scored back-to-back, dominant victories over Eduardo Iturrizaga and Nodirbek Abdusattorov to win the losers’ bracket of the Aimchess Rapid online tournament. So will face Magnus Carlsen in Friday’s Grand Final, played to the best of 4. If Carlsen loses, he will get a second chance against the same opponent, as he has yet to lose a match in the event. | Photo: Champions Chess Tour

Professionals today have tight schedules. There are many more tournaments in the world, with the extra addition of online events. After Norway Chess, the Global Chess League in Dubai and the Grand Chess Tour event in Zagreb, Magnus Carlsen is now playing in the Aimchess Rapid — with no signs of fatigue. Carlsen beat Jorden van Foreest, and will face Fabiano Caruana next. | Photos: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour

The Aimchess Rapid is the fourth event of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. The tournament, taking place on July 10-14, features three divisions, each a double-elimination knockout, where if you lose one match you drop to a lower bracket and can still win the tournament. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana are the top seeds in the event. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 EDT, 20.30 IST)

Magnus Carlsen suffered a shock defeat to long-time second GM Laurent Fressinet but roared back to secure qualification for Division I in the Champions Chess Tour’s upcoming Aimchess Rapid event. Joining Carlsen in the top tier will be Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and the Venezuelan-born Spanish Eduardo Iturrizaga who all progressed through a challenging Swiss event before winning their respective rapid matches against other top-eight finishers.

The 11th edition of the Norway Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place from May 29 to June 9 in Stavanger. A rejuvenated lineup will see Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Dommaraju Gukesh making their debuts at the Norwegian super-tournament. Magnus Carlsen, who remarkably won the event five times, will also be present, alongside the likes of Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So.