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Anish Giri won the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023 ahead of all the top players in the world - Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana. He played some phenomenal chess throughout the event to win it with a rating performance of 2849, scoring 8.5/13 and gaining 16 Elo points. Anish has been very close to winning the tournament multiple times, but this is the first time he has clinched the trophy at Wijk Aan Zee! We invited him for a livestream to get his thoughts on winning this pres...

An Armageddon game decided the Fischer Random World Championship 2022. In the finals of the World Championship Hikaru Nakamura played against Ian Nepomniachtchi and after a 2-2 tie in the four games of the initial mini-match, an Armageddon game had to decide. Here, Nakamura won with White to become new Fischer Random World Champion. The placement matches all ended 3:1: Magnus Carlsen won against Nodirbek Abdusattorov and came third, Vladimir Fedoseev beat Wesley So and came fifth, Matthias Bl&#2...

In the semi-finals of the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) came to a clear win against Nodirbek Abdusattorov: Nakamura won 3-0 and will face Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final. Nepomniachtchi lost the first game in his match against Magnus Carlsen but then hit back: He won all of the remaining three games to win the match 3-1. So the final on Sunday (16.00 CET, 11.00 ET, 15.00 GMT) is now "Naka against Nepo". | Photos: FIDE / David Llada

The Fischer Random World Championship, which started yesterday in Reykjavik, is overshadowed by the Niemann lawsuit, in which Niemann sued Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Rensch, chess.com and the Play Magnus Group for 100 million USD. Carlsen and Nakamura are playing in the World Championship, but did not want to comment on the lawsuit. However, the Icelandic Grandmaster Hjörvar Gretarsson, who is a lawyer by profession and who also takes part in the Championship, commented the law...