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Sunday saw the end of the excellently organized Open Tournament in Menorca. In the final spurt, Arjun Erigaisi secured tournament victory thanks to his superior tiebreak score. With this triumph, Arjun climbed to number seven in the live ratings list. Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev grabbed second and third place, respectively. | Photos: ChessBase India, Menorca Open
ChessBase Magazine Extra is the ideal supplement to ChessBase Magazine. Videos by Nicos Zwirs on the Vienna Game following the game Wei Yi vs. Max Warmerdam from Tata Steel 2024 (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 c6 5.f4) and part 2 of "Mikhalchishin's miniatures", this time focussing on the "Indian" openings. "Lucky bag" with 53 analyses by Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gabriel Sargissian and many more. "The brilliancy" is provided by the 15-year-old IM Shreyas Royal from England. Plus over 50,000 new games for your database!
This week's Wednesday Workout continues our series from Tata Steel 2024. This week focuses on a thrilling endgame between GM Max Warmerdam and GM Ding Liren. It looked like Ding was on his way to grinding out a win with a massive time advantage before Warmerdam uncorked a thrilling stalemate trick (see Puzzle 1), only to give the draw away shortly thereafter (see Puzzle 2).
In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris once again turns his attention to the Tata Steel Tournament 2024 in Wijk aan Zee and analyses a fine and decisive win by Anish Giri in the final round against Max Warmerdam. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target="_blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
Five out of seven games ended decisively in the penultimate round of the Tata Steel Masters, leaving five players tied for first place going into the last day of action. Vidit Gujrathi defeated former sole leader Nodirbek Abdusattorov to create the exciting scenario for Sunday. Vidit and Abdusattorov are joined by Gukesh D., Wei Yi and Anish Giri in the lead. Similarly, in the Challengers, Leon Luke Mendonca caught former sole leader Marc’Andria Maurizzi atop the standings. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Jurriaan Hoefsmit