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€19.95 GM Adrien Demuth looks at 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 f5   The starting position of our present survey. The Schliemann Defence Deferred has never been taken very seriously. But with current theory and the computer, "everything is equal"... We will try to determine if it's even true with this provocative opening, which is considered to be less precise than its version with the immediate 3...f5 (the original Schliemann Defence, also called the Jaenisch Gambit). From the above diagram, we will consider several moves. Let's take a tour through the variations! A) 5.B...

Fittingly, GM Magnus Carlsen is the top seed of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational Day 3: Carlsen Moves Into Top Spot Eight players advanced to the knockout stage of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational on Monday, headlined by early leaders GMs Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri, who held their top two positions entering the day but switched places. Carlsen enters the quarterfinals as the top seed. How to watch? The games of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational preliminaries can be found here as part of our live events platform. IM Levy...

€19.95 Five rounds to climb up the standings The format of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour events makes for a very entertaining third day of action, with top grandmasters fighting to survive by finishing at the top half of the standings table. While the lowest-rated players have struggled so far in the Magnus Carlsen Invitational (all four participants rated below 2700 are in the last spots of the standings), some big names are also on the brink of elimination.  Going into the last five rounds of the all-play-all section, only Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen can be truly c...

2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational Day 1: Giri Early Leader How to watch? The games of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational preliminaries can be found here as part of our live events platform. IM Levy Rozman and IM Anna Rudolf are providing daily commentary on GM Hikaru Nakamura's Twitch channel starting at 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe. Last year, the Magnus Carlsen Invitational was the first of what soon became a series of online super-tournaments during the pandemic. This year, the event is the fourth leg of the 2020-2021 Champions Chess Tour, after the Skilling Open (won by So), t...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and reigning US champion Wesley So surprisingly yield to Dutch Anish Giri