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The fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, will take place on March 13-21, with sixteen players fighting for Tour points and a share of the US$ 220,000 prize fund. According to their rapid ratings, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura are the top seeds.
€29.90 A chance to face the very best The fourth stage of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour will be played on March 13-21, with Magnus Carlsen heading a 16-player field which will include tour leaders Teimour Radjabov and Wesley So. The organizers have decided to once again use the name ‘Magnus Carlsen Invitational’, the same name used in the first online event of the 2020 online tour organized due to the pandemic. Before Tuesday’s qualifier, fourteen players had already been confirmed to participate, with Anish Giri and David Anton getting spots based on popular vot...
An online petition was launched on Monday describing the introduction of a charge for the 600-word obituaries as “disgraceful” and urging the magazine to reconsider. Dr Toni Hazell, a GP in Tottenham, north London, and one of the BMJ’s 80,000 readers, told the Guardian: “To start this at the moment when doctors are dying of Covid just seems unbelievably crass.” She came across the charge as she was considering submitting an obituary for her stepfather, Dr David Anton, who died this month from prostate cancer. Hazell said: “My stepfather was a doctor in the RAF and he was an occupa...
The 17-year-old wunderkind commented: It was a miracle. I guess it was payback for yesterday — the same thing happened yesterday, so I’m very happy for the result and I look forward for tomorrow. Firouzja referred to the chances he missed against Fabiano Caruana in round 11, when he was first in deep trouble and then got a clearly better position after the time control. No matter what happens on Sunday, Firouzja has once again proved he is not only amazingly strong but also a fearless fighter. And he could still end up winning the tournament! In fact, there are five players who still have...
Tata Steel Chess 2021: Giri Sole Leader Before Final Rest Day With three rounds to go, GM Anish Giri is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The Dutch GM managed to beat GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek from an equal endgame after GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Magnus Carlsen drew their game. GM Alireza Firouzja also split the point with GM Nils Grandelius. How to watch? The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. All rounds start at 14:00 CET (5 a.m. Pacific) except for the final round that starts an hour earlier. You can follow the games at chess.com/events/2021-tata-steel-m...