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Magnus Carlsen only needs a draw in the second set of the Champions Chess Tour Finals to claim his third consecutive title in the online series (he also won in 2020, when the tour was fittingly named after him). Carlsen beat Wesley So in the first set of the match for the title after scoring the one win of the set from a very balanced endgame position. | Photo: chess.com / Thomas Tischio ....
Airthings Masters | chess24 The second event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour is also the first Major, with a $200,000 prize fund. The winner gets $60,000 and a guaranteed place in the Grand Final. Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Skilling Open winner Wesley So are among the 12-player field, which will be reduced to 8 players by a 3-day preliminary stage. The remaining players will battle it out in a knockout that takes us into 2021. January 16 – 31 | Tata Steel Masters | Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands This year’s 83rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament has been cut to just the main event due to COVID-19, but if everything goes as planned that will still mean a 14-player round-robin featuring Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from the world’s Top 5 and a host of young talents that include 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja. ....