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Jorden van Foreest enters the blitz section of the SuperUnited Grand Chess Tour event in the sole lead, after having collected 12 points in the rapid. Van Foreest lost to Magnus Carlsen on Friday, but managed to defeat Alireza Firouzja, who lost the lead he had after six rounds. Nine rounds of blitz will be played both on Saturday and Sunday to decide who wins the third event of the GCT. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Wesley So scored four points in the last three rounds to stay tied for second with three rounds to go in the rapid part of the Grand Chess Tour’s Super United Rapid and Blitz Zagrev in Croatia Friday. Photo from Grand Chess Tour So downed Croatian Ivan Saric in the fourth round and drew with W

In the current ChessBase Magazine Extra #207 Elisabeth Pähtz presents a setup against the Grünfeld Defence that served her well in the FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga 2021: White fianchettos the light-squared bishop and restricts the possibilities of Black's bishop on c8 with 10.h3. Our author has divided her video analysis into four different clips. As harmless as the move 10.h3 may seem at first glance, Black must react precisely to avoid getting into huge trouble. Check it out!

The Budapest Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4) has its most loyal followers in club chess. 1.d4 players who are confronted with the gambit have to reckon with the fact that their opponents are far more familiar with the positions, if only because of the number of games they have played with that system. In the current ChessBase Magazine Extra 207 Ivan Sokolov shows a little-known but very convenient way for White to gain a nice advantage without extensive study of opening theory. You can watc...

At the Tata Steel Masters 2022 Jorden van Foreest got the opportunity to conduct a long-planned opening experiment: In the Sicilian with 2.Nc6 he surprised his opponent Praggnanandhaa with 3.Bc4?! "Finally, here it was. There aren't all that many good reasons for why I like the move, the main probably being the fact that it looks so stupid :-)", writes the young Dutchman at the beginning of his analysis in the new CBM Extra #207. And the game continued no less exceptionally: after ...

The new Extra #207 offers, among other things, over an hour of video training with Elisabeth Pähtz and Ivan Sokolov. Germany's best female chess player presents one of her favourite weapons against the Gruenfeld Defence in a short video series. And Sokolov's contribution deals with a topic that should be interesting for many 1.d4 players, especially at club level: The GM from the Netherlands shows a method with which a nice advantage can be comfortably achieved against the Budapest ...

The 16-year-old had defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen earlier in the online tournament.

Chennai, May 23 (PTI): Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa defeated compatriot and GM Vidit Gujrathi to book a spot in the quarterfinals of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2022 online tournament. The win in the 15th and final round of the preliminaries late on Sunday saw the teenaged GM knock Gujrathi out of contention. The 16-year-old Praggnanandhaa will take on Wei Yi of China in the quarterfinals. Praggnanandhaa, who created a stir by beating world No.1 Magnus Carls...

On the third day of the Chessable Masters, Anish Giri took the lead in the standings table after scoring three wins and a draw. Wei Yi, who had been leading until Friday, only managed two draws and dropped to fourth place. Magnus Carlsen is one point behind Giri in second place; Ding Liren is third. Sunday’s final three rounds of the preliminaries will decide which eight players move on to the knockout.

Wei Yi continues to lead the standings in the preliminary stage of the Chessable Masters, as he collected two wins and two draws in Friday’s rounds. David Anton and Magnus Carlsen are sharing second place three points back. Carlsen kicked off the day with a loss — for a second time in the tour, the world champion was defeated by 16-year-old Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa.