Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024 9:17 am
- The Week in Chess 1532 of 18th March 2024 by Mark Crowther. 26 stories and 5625 games. Links down the right hand margin for games in PGN or Chessbase format or on the The Week in Chess Download page.
- With all the chess played these days in multiple formats, online and in person it's very hard to keep up. The original idea of everything summarised in one place has never been more relevant. Follow your favourite players each week, what happened in your favourite opening? The PGN files can be read by many chess programs. If you do find it useful please consider a donation. £30 (or £4 a month) via Paypal will get you a copy of the TWIC DB which has 3742122 games in at the end of 2023. I do a zipped conversion to PGN as well.
- A compilation of the games can be had for a donation of £30. There have been over 3.5 million games in TWIC since the first edition on 17th September 1994.
Reykjavik Open 2024
Reykjavik Open 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Mar 18 18:56:00 2024)
The Reykjavik Open takes place 15th to 21st March 2024. Leading players: Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Xiangyu Xu, Jules Moussard, Matthieu Cornette, Paulius Pultinevicius etc. Read more ....
Reykjavik Open 2024 (Reykjavik ISL)
Fri 15th Mar 2024 - Thu 21st Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Results
Reykjavik Open 2024 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games | Live
American Cup 2024
American Cup 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Tue Mar 12 21:12:00 2024)
The American Cup takes place Tue 12th to Thu 21st Mar in Saint Louis. The format is a knock-out tournament with double elimination. A mixture of Classical first and then rapid games are played followed by tie-breaks if required. Open event: Caruana, So, Dominguez, Aronian, Shankland, Robson, Sevian and Oparin. Women's: Krush, Lee, Tokhirjonova, Zatonskih, Paikidze, Abrahamyan, Jennifer Yu, Zoey Tang. I will try to produce some live coverage but the format is very taxing. Read more ....
American Cup 2024 (Saint Louis USA)
Tue 12th Mar 2024 - Thu 21st Mar 2024 -
Official Site
American Cup Champ (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Champ | Live Championship
American Cup Elim (7 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Elim
American Cup Blitz 2024 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+2spm)
American Cup Elim w (7 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Champ Elim w
American Cup Champ w (8 players 5 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Champ w | Live Championship w
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 29 11:53:00 2024)
The 5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters takes place 29th February to 7th March 2024. Players: Anish Giri, Arjun Erigaisi, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Bu Xiangzhi, Ma Qun and Xu Xiangyu. Read more ....
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 (Shenzhen CHN)
Thu 29th Feb 2024 - Thu 7th Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Results
5th Shenzhen Longgang (8 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Feb 26 18:32:00 2024)
The 6th Prague International Chess Festival takes place Mon 26th Feb (opening ceremony) to Thu 7th Mar 2024. There are two strong Round Robin tournaments. The Masters with Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit, Gukesh, Keymer, Rapport, Maghsoodloo, Navara, Bartel and Thai Dai Van Nguyen. The Challengers isn't too shabby either with Korobov, L'Ami, Santos Latasa, Rodshtein etc. There are other events such as the Futures, Open, Rapids, Chess960 and many amateur groups too. Read more ....
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 (Prague CZE)
Mon 26th Feb 2024 - Thu 7th Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Live
6th Prague Masters 2024 (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Masters
6th Prague Challengers (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Challengers
6th Prague Futures (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Futures
Prague Int Open 2024 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Open
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 8 22:31:00 2024)
The Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge takes place Fri 9th to 16th Feb 2024. Rapid Round Robin followed by a Knockout at Standard time controls. This is Fischer Random, Chess960, Shuffle Chess by another name. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, D Gukesh, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Ding Liren and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. I don't have the ability to display Chess960 but will try and produce a downloadable file each day. Truthfully I've never found Chess960 at all interesting. Read more ....
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 (Wangels GER)
Fri 9th Feb 2024 - Fri 16th Feb 2024 -
Official Site - Live
Freestyle Chess GOAT Prel (8 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Prelim
Freestyle Chess GOAT KO (8 players 3 Rds KO Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games KO
Chessable Masters 2024
Chessable Masters 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Wed Feb 7 19:17:00 2024)
The Chessable Masters took place Fri 2nd to Wed 7th Feb 2024, the format was double elimination. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Denis Lazavik, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, Vladimir Fedoseev and Alireza Firouzja all competed for the title in Division 1. Carlsen ended up winning the event after beating Denis Lazavik in the winners final and then in the Grand Final he lost to Alireza Firouzja, this meant both Carlsen and Firouzja had lost one match so a final match was played to decide who won, Carlsen did, 2-0. Vincent Keymer beat Levon Aronian in the Division 2 final and has qualified for the next main event, Alexey Sarana beat Alexander Grischuk in the Division 3 final and will play in Division 2 next time. Read more ....
Chessable Masters 2024 (chess.com INT)
Fri 2nd Feb 2024 - Wed 7th Feb 2024 -
Official Site
Chessable Masters Div 1 W (8 players 5 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div1 W
Chessable Masters Div 1 L (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div1 L
Chessable Masters Div 2 W (16 players 6 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div2 W
Chessable Masters Div 2 L (8 players 6 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div2 L
Chessable Masters Div 3 W (32 players 7 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div3 W
Chessable Masters Div 3 L (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div3 L
Wei Yi wins the 2024 Tata Steel Masters after a four player tie-break
86th Tata Steel 2024 13
Mark Crowther (Sun Jan 28 21:50:00 2024)
Wei Yi and Gukesh play the final tie-break game to decide this year's winner. Photo © | https://tatasteelchess.com
Wei Yi won the Tata Steel Masters for the first time following a tie-break, he had previously won the B-Group way back in 2015. Indeed after becoming a GM at 13 years old and the youngest ever player to reach 2700 at 15 he hasn't really lived up to this promise, this result came a bit out of the blue, and it was a late run of 4.5/5 that took him to a tie-break including a win against Santosh Vidit today. This win is 24 year old Wei Yi's greatest result.
Four players reached the tie-breaks with wins today. Anish Giri played a super aggressive Reti system against Max Warmerdam and eventually broke through. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won a fluctuating struggle against Alexander Donchenko, he was a bit better, then worse, then equal and finally winning. Parham Maghsoodloo sacrificed unsoundly with 16.Nxf7? against Gukesh, it was a mess though with Gukesh's king very unsafe and for one move he was back in it 29...Ke6? 30.Rb1? (30.dxe4! is almost equal) before Gukesh converted.
The other games were drawn, Ding Liren vs Ju Wenjun and Ian Nepomniachtchi against Jorden van Foreest quickly, and Praggnanandhaa against Alireza Firouzja very slowly, indeed this fight was the last one to finish in the Masters before the tie-breaks. Praggnanandhaa could have overtaken Anand in the rating list with a win and he came very close, with Firouzja defending excellently and with great effort and determination.
The tie-breaks were a four player knockout with 3 minute plus 2 seconds a move games. Wei Yi came back from the dead to draw against Abdusattorov in their first game and was worse in the second until it suddenly turned in his favour with an error 34.Bf4? soon the game was level again before a final blunder 38.Bc7 (38.Qe2! is the only playable move). Anish Giri won the first game against Gukesh with white but couldn't hold on to this lead losing the second and the final Armageddon game.
In the final against Gukesh the first game was drawn and Wei Yi won a long second game where he gradually got a decisive advantage in a long blitz at the end where the players were surviving on the increment.
This has been a fascinating tournament, lots of fighting chess, lots of mistakes, a big fight at the top but a lot of struggling players too, including the World Champion Ding Liren. I don't know what it says about the state of modern chess. The Candidates should tell us more.
In the Challengers Leon Luke Mendonca finished with 6.5/7 to win alone and book a place in the Masters next year. IM Arthur Pijpers won the Tienkamp and will play in the Challengers.
Masters Final Standings: 1st Wei Yi 8.5pts, won the four player tie-break 2nd= Gukesh, Abdusattorov, Giri 8.5pts 5th= Vidit, Praggnanandhaa, Firouzja 7.5pts 8th Nepomniachtchi 6.5pts 9th Ding Liren 6pts 10th= Ju Wenjun, Donchenko, Van Foreest, Maghsoodloo, Parham 4.5pts 14th Warmerdam, Max 4pts
Read more .... 86th Tata Steel 2024 (Wijk aan Zee NED)
Fri 12th Jan 2024 - Sun 28th Jan 2024 -
Official Site - Results - Live
86th Tata Steel Masters (14 players 13 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100m:50+30smp(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Masters
Tata Steel Challengers (14 players 13 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100m:50+30smp(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Challengers
Tata Steel Masters TB (4 players 2 Rds KO Indiv TC:3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Masters TB
Tata Steel Top Tienkamp (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100m:50+30smp(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Tienkamp
Watch live games
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Reykjavik Open 2024 | Reykjavik | ISL | 16:00 | 7 | |||
American Cup Champ | Saint Louis | USA | 19:00 | 4 | |||
American Cup Champ w | Saint Louis | USA | 19:00 | 4 | |||
Other events today | |||||||
AICF WGM RR 2024 | Chennai | IND | 04:00 | 2 | |||
AICF WGM RR 2024 | Chennai | IND | 10:30 | 3 | |||
RADNICKICHESS IM Mar 2024 | Belgrade | SRB | 15:30 | 8 | |||
ch-Africa 2024 | Accra | GHA | 16:00 | 8 | |||
ch-Africa Women 2024 | Accra | GHA | 16:00 | 8 | |||
Toshinobu Tasoko Mem 2024 | Osasco | BRA | 18:00 | 2 | |||
2nd FAOGBA Open 2024 | Buenos Aires | ARG | 21:00 | 9 |
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TWIC is 29. First issue 17th September 1994.