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Average rating: 2520 Each team not only has a captain, but three coaches who will help the players over the course of the 5-month tour.  Surya Ganguly  6-time Indian Champion Surya Ganguly has worked on Team Anand for World Chess Championship matches and should have some invaluable advice for his players. You can see him at the end of this short clip from the first pre-tour meeting with the players and coaches. He’ll get to give advice to two young Indian prodigies, Gukesh, who at the age of 12 years, 7 months and 17 days became the second youngest chess grandmaster in history (just day...

Reports Feb 13, 2021 | 12:26 AMby Colin McGourty Opera Euro Rapid SF 2: Carlsen-So final as Magnus wins thriller Magnus Carlsen will take on Wesley So in the Opera Euro Rapid final after the World Chess Champion was taken all the way to Armageddon by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Results-wise it was almost a carbon copy of the Daniil Dubov quarterfinal, but Magnus said he had a lot more fun and was “happy to have played a good game at the end when it really mattered”. Wesley So, meanwhile, cruised into the final with two draws and a convincing win over Teimour Radjabov. ...

It took him 43 minutes to decide, but he did indeed go for 16.Ne6! Although it’s easy to see that 16…fxe6 17.Bxe6+ and capturing on d5 is very good for White, there was mayhem on the board after 16…Qa5!. Both players found almost all the computer-approved moves as they launched sacrificial attacks on opposite sides of the board. It was a true thriller, with Peter Leko – who during the show admitted he’s never tasted coffee in his life – even more enthusiastic than usual. No quick summary can do it justice, so don’t miss in-depth analysis by Jan Gustafsson.

Three players are sharing the lead after round 1 in Wijk aan Zee, as Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri and Nils Grandelius all obtained victories with the white pieces. It was a topsy-turvy win for the world champion, who bravely gave up two pawns to get the better of 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja. Endgame specialist Karsten Müller analysed the rook ending that gave Grandelius the full point against Alexander Donchenko. | Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit – Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021

Pentala Harikrishna, Poland's no. 2  Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Sweden's no. 1  Nils Grandelius are excellent replacements.  Then, on the eve of the tournament, Daniil Dubov was also forced to cancel after someone close to him tested positive for COVID-19. His late replacement is 22-year-old German Grandmaster  Carlsen has won the Masters group of the event a record 7 times since 2008, when he shared 1st along with Levon Aronian. Caruana is the reigning champion and in fact only three other players (Levon Aronian in 2012 and 2014, Hikaru Nakamura in 2011 and Wesley So in 2017) have managed to...