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The second round of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament saw four decisive results in the Open section. Today was the Women's Candidates Tournament's turn to deliver four victors. Without further ado:  

The FIDE Trainers Commission is pleased to announce the winners of the 15th FIDE Trainer Awards 2023 and the Yuri Averbakh / Isaac Boleslavsky Award for the best book published in 2022. Ramesh R B, Abhijit Kunte and Djakhangir Agaragimov were chosen as the top trainers of the year. In the book category, a work co-authored by Sergei Tiviakov and Yulia Gokbulut received the top accolade, while Vassilios Kotronias and Mihail Marin were the runners-up. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Much like on the first day of the Women’s Candidates (Pool B) in Khiva, two tense draws were signed by the contenders looking to get a spot in the final against Lei Tingjie. After a rest day on Thursday, two more games will be played in this phase, with tiebreaks scheduled for Sunday in case of a 2-2 result in the classical portion. | Photo: Xushnud Baltaev

An extremely entertaining first round in the Masters section of the Prague Chess Festival saw Le Quang Liem, David Navara and Pentala Harikrishna scoring the first victories of the event to grab an early lead. Coincidentally, three players also won their first games in the Challengers. All six full points were collected by the player marshalling the white pieces. | Photo: Petr Vrabec

The 2021 World Championship match kicked off on Friday, with a fighting draw. English star Michael Adams annotates the first game of the confrontation between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Adams concludes: “An interesting opening encounter, it will be intriguing to see if Magnus repeats his opening choice then”. | Photo: Eric Rosen

The much-anticipated confrontation between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi kicked off at 16:30 local time in Dubai. The first game of the World Championship match finished in a draw. Playing black, Carlsen was the first one to deviate from well-known theoretical lines, but Nepomniachtchi proved to be prepared to face the variation chosen by the defending champion. A tense endgame developed, with both contenders missing small chances here and there. The draw was signed after 45 moves. | Pho...

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€19.95 Crowded at the top We had not seen more than three decisive results on a single day so far in Wijk aan Zee, as missed opportunities and good defensive efforts were a frequent feature throughout. The consequence was that no player managed to get a large advantage at the top of the standings, with Nils Grandelius grabbing the sole lead twice in the tournament but only with a +2 score. And then came round 7, when five decisive results left us with four players sharing the ...