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Published April 29, 2021, 1:21 PM Two-time United States champion Wesley So succumbed to Armenia-born Levon Aronian in the quarterfinals to crash out in the Newa in Chess Classic of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Thursday, April 29. So, 27, failed to come through after drawing the first two games and losing the third that sealed Aronian the match victory. Aronian won the first of their two-set quarters duel Wednesday, 3-1, that included a match where So committed a costly mouse slip. That fateful error proved to be the turning point of the showdown as So was never really the same from the...

Grandmaster Wesley So scored 3.5 points in the last five preliminary rounds to clinch a quarterfinal berth in the New In Chess Classic of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Tuesday, April 27.

€29.90 Nostalgia rules I have an old rule, "Do not praise friends in public." This time I am making an exception. ChessBase Magazine has scored a ton and importantly it has survived the pandemic. Both call for a little celebration. Incidentally, I still remember the First Jubilee issue on scoring a 100. The videos were fun. A couple of them are back here with GM Rainer Knaak and  Founder-Editor, Frederic Friedel going down the memory lane.  Sit back and smile, though our Gen. Next may thumb their noses at the quality of the videos. Back in 1990s the digital revolution in t...

Published April 25, 2021, 2:29 PM Wesley So Grandmaster Wesley So got off to a rough start after absorbing three defeats in his first five games in the New In Chess Classic of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Sunday, April 25. So yielded to Iran-born Alireza Firouzja, Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda and England’s Gawain Jones but cushioned the impact of his free fall with wins over rising Indian star Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The painful start put the Fischer Random king and two-time United States champion in a four-way logjam at 11th place with two...

The New In Chess Classic, the fifth leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Saturday. GM Teimour Radjabov leads with 4/5 ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Alireza Firouzja, who are on 3.5/5. How to watch?The games of the New In Chess Classic preliminaries can be found here as part of our live events...