Mark Crowther    The Champions Showdown LX took place in Saint Louis Thursday th Sep to Sun th Sep . The main point of interest was the participation of legend Garry Kasparov as he rarely plays at all, last year was a horror show for him but given his competitive nature I’d expect him to have prepared and...

Mark Crowther    The Tata Steel India Rapid Blitz takes place th to th September . Players: Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alexander Grischuk, R Praggnanandhaa, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, Teimour Radjabov, Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh, Pentala Harikrishna and Vincent Keymer.

Mark Crowther    The Tata Steel India Rapid Blitz Women’s section took place st August to th September. Deshmukh Divya won the rapid with and Ju Wenjun the blitz with . , year old Divya won the combined title.

Mark Crowther    The Julius Baer Generation Cup took place Wed th Aug Sun rd Sep . Players in the top group: Magnus Carlsen, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Denis Lazavik, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Pavel Eljanov, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alireza Firouzja. Magnus Carlsen beat Alireza Firouzja in...

Mark Crowther    World Rapid Team Championship Sat th Au to Mon th Aug in Dusseldorf. A brand new event from FIDE. Leading players: Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Richard Rapport, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler,...

Mark Crowther    The FIDE World Cup took place in Baku, Azerbaijan Sunday th Jul to Thursday th Aug . The event is a qualifier for the FIDE Candidates tournament as well as being worth winning in its own right. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed, he had never won the event and clearly saw this as something he...

Mark Crowther    The th Biel Chess Festival took place Sat th to Sun th Jul . The main event was the Grand Master Triathlon which is a mix of Classical, Rapid and Blitz sections with players: Yu Yangyi, Le Quang Liem, Arjun Erigaisi, Bogdan Daniel Deac, Vincent Keymer, Bassem Amin, David Navara and...

Mark Crowther    The Women’s World Chess Championship match took place in Shanghai and Chongqing July th to th . Defending Champion Ju Wenjun faced challenger Lei Tingjie in a game match. FIDE Event summary Ju Wenjun won in a fitting finale in game to win . . . This was a sharp fluctuating...

Mark Crowther    The Aimchess Rapid took place th to th July . Part of the Champions Chess Tour it was hosted by Chess.com. Having missed the last tour event Carlsen had to qualify in June which he did comfortably enough. Division players: Carlsen, So, Fedoseev, Caruana, Aronian, Abdusattorov, Jorden Van...

Mark Crowther    The Geza Hetenyi Memorial takes place in Budapest Tue th to Wed th Jul . Players: Maghsoodloo, Sjugirov, Eljanov, Shevchenko, Praggnanandhaa, Tabatabaei, Wojtaszek, Matlakov, Prohaszka and Adam Kozak.

Mark Crowther    The SuperUnited Rapid Blitz, part of the Grand Chess Tour, took place in Zagreb Wed th to Mon th July . The final results came from a combination of the scores in Rapid and Bltiz. Magnus Carlsen finished rd in the Rapid half a point behind Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi....

Mark Crowther    The Global Chess League took place in Dubai Wed st Jun Sun nd Jul . This rapid play competition has very strong teams. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Yangyi Yu, Viswanathan Anand, Daniil Dubov,...

Mark Crowther    The th Norway Chess tournament took place Monday th May blitz tournament to Fri th Jun . Players: Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, D Gukesh, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Aryan Tari. The event has had a...

Mark Crowther    The rd Cairns Cup takes place in Saint Louis rd to th June . The event is named for Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield’s maiden name and was cancelled at least once due to Covid . Players: Humpy Koneru, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Harika Dronavalli, Nana Dzagnidze, Zhansaya Abdumalik, Elisabeth Paehtz...

Mark Crowther    The ChessKid Cup took place Mon nd to Fri th May on Chess.com. The latest event in the Champions Chess Tour was won by Nodirbek Abdusattorov who beat Jorden Van Foreest and Fabiano Caruana in the two finals. Vladimir Fedoseev qualified for Division next time beating Shakhriyar Mamedyarov...

Mark Crowther    The Superbet Rapid Blitz took place in Warsaw, Poland st to th May . Players: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Richard Rapport, MVL, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Bogdan Daniel Deac, Kirill Shevchenko and Radoslaw Wojtaszek played in this event which is part of the Grand Chess...

Mark Crowther    The Superbet Chess Classic Romania took place in Bucharest th to th May . This is the first leg of the Grand Chess tour. Fabiano Caruana won the event with . half a point clear of Alireza Firouzja, Wesley So, Anish Giri and Richard Rapport. World Champion Ding Liren won in the final...

Mark Crowther    The th Sigeman Co tournament took place in Malmo, Sweden th to th May , Category . Players: D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Jorden Van Foreest, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand, Nils Grandelius and Abhimanyu Mishra. Peter Svidler won the event with a score of . . This is his...

Mark Crowther    The th Stepan Avagyan Memorial tookplace in Jermuk, Armenia rd th May , Category . Players: Samuel Sevian, Andrey Esipenko, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Haik M. Martirosyan, Narayanan.S.L, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Frederik Svane, Robert Hovhannisyan and Artur Davtyan. Sam...

Mark Crowther    The th Capablanca Memorial took place in Havana Wed rd May Fri th May . The Category Elite event has these players: Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli, Raunak Sadhwani, Rasmus Svane, Jonas Buhl Bjerre, Alexandr Fier, Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera, Luis Ernesto Quesada Perez, Omar...