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A draw with black in his game against Richard Rapport was enough for Fabiano Caruana to win the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest. None of the four players sharing second place before the final round managed to score a full point on Monday, thus allowing Caruana to claim clear first place, the $100,000 top prize and 13 GCT points. Meanwhile, world champion Ding Liren beat Bogdan-Daniel Deac with the black pieces. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

The Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest has three players sharing the lead after two rounds. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Richard Rapport joined Wesley So atop the standings after scoring wins over Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Jan-Krzysztof Duda respectively. World champion Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana signed a 21-move draw. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

World Champion and No. 1 Ranked Player Magnus Carlsen to Headline Two Events Grand Chess Tour, a leading global circuit of international chess tournaments featuring the world's best players, announced

For the third year in a row, the Grand Chess Tour will be without the two arguably biggest stars of the chess world, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Naka...

The traditional Biel Chess Festival seemed to be in danger after the city of Biel wanted to cut its subsidies. After a petition, the situation has improved and in summer the strongest "Triathlon" will continue - among others with Vincent Keymer again.

The "Sparkassen Chess Trophy" once again took place in Dortmund. The Deutschland Grand Prix is the top tournament, but a total of half a dozen tournaments are held simultaneously as part of the festival, including the No-Castling World Masters. Replay all the games from the top events!

Next Saturday is the official start of the Dortmund Chess Days Festival. The organizers expect up to 500 participants in all tournaments. Those who want to see two world champions and the German chess elite up close can still register at short notice. | Pictured: Kramnik with the winners of the Sportland NRW Girls' Cup 2021 | Photos: Christian Lünig

The ninth and final round of the Superbet Chess Classic delivered the results that allowed the viewers a spectacle of a three-way playoff. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Alireza Firouzja to catch up to the American duo of GMs Levon Aronian and Wesley So, both of whom drew their games. The resulting...

Midsummer is traditionally the time of the Dortmund Chess Days. After last year's relaunch, the festival will be expanded this year with, among other things, a large international open. At the weekend, the pairings have been drawn, which also means that the schedule is fixed. It all starts on 17 July. | Photos: Dortmunder Schachtage

The eighth round of the Superbet Chess Classic, which was played on the notorious Friday the 13th, delivered just as much blood as the history annals would have us believe that was spilled on the days with that date. At the end of it there was only one winner when GM Leinier Dominguez benefitted from...