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  • Prague Chess Festival - Masters update
    8 - 17 June 2022
    Prague, Czechia
    Masters t. : 10 players
    Round robin
    Average rating: 2693


    Players

    Le Quang Liem VIE
    Harikrishna Pentala IND
    Nguyen Thai Dai Van CZE
    Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP
    Navara David CZE

    Shankland Sam USA
    Maghsoodloo Parham IRI
    Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND
    Salem A.R. Saleh UAE
    Anton Guijarro David ESP

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  • World Chess Championship Candidates 2022 update

    21 Jun - 4 July 2022
    Madrid, Spain
    8 players
    Double round robin
    Average rating: 2772

    Players - ratings

    Ding, Liren 2806
    Firouzja, Alireza 2793
    Caruana, Fabiano 2783

    Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2766
    Rapport, Richard 2764
    Nakamura, Hikaru 2760
    Radjabov, Teimour 2753
    Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2750
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  • Norway Chess 2022

    Norway Chess 2022

    31 May - 10 June 2022 , Stavenger , Norway
    10 players , Round robin
    Average rating: 2754

    Players

    Carlsen, Magnus 2864
    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2770
    So, Wesley 2766
    Giri, Anish 2761

    Radjabov, Teimour 2753
    Anand, Viswanathan 2751
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2750
    Wang, Hao 0/0 2744
    Topalov, Veselin 0/0 2730
    Tari, Aryan 2654

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  • The Chessable Masters Preliminaries- Meltwater Champions Chess Tour
    4th event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour



    19 - 22 May 2022
    16 players
    Average rating: 2694
    15 minutes for all moves,
    with a 10-second increment from move 1
    No draw offers are allowed before move 40


    Ding Liren ( CHN ) won the tournament.

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  • Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland - Grand Chess Tour
    2nd event of the Grand Chess Tour



    19 - 22 May 2022
    May 17 - 24, 2022
    Warsaw, Poland
    Average rating : 2712

    Rapid : Round robin
    Blitz: Double Round robin


    Duda ( POL ) won the tournament.

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  • Superbet Chess Classic - Grand Chess Tour update

    May 3rd - 9th , 2022
    Malmö, Sweden
    8 players
    Round robin
    Average rating: 2681



    Players - ratings
    Firouzja, Alireza 2804
    Caruana, Fabiano 2786
    Rapport, Richard 2776
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2773
    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2770

    So, Wesley 2766
    Aronian, Levon 2765
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2753
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2750
    Deac, Bogdan-Daniel 2671



  • Tepe Sigeman & Co tournament

    May 3rd - 9th , 2022
    Malmö, Sweden
    8 players
    Round robin
    Average rating: 2681








  • Russian Team Champ

    1 - 10 May 2022
    Sochi, Russia
    9 teams
    Round robin

    Teams

    - Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
    - Moscow Chess Team (Moscow)
    - Gogolevsky, 14 (Moscow)
    - CPRF (Moscow)

    - Southern Ural
    - School of M. Botvinnik (Moscow)
    - Ladya
    - SSHOR (Saint Petersburg)





  • Top 100 players - Ratings May 2022 update

    1- Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2864
    2- Ding, Liren CHN 2806
    3- Firouzja, Alireza FRA 2804

    Continue to read for the Ratings of the top 100 players




  • Oslo Esports Cup - Meltwater Champions Chess Tour

    April 22 - 28 , 2022
    Oslo, Norway
    8 players
    Rapid : Round robin - Four-game match


    Players

    Magnus Carlsen NOR
    Anish Giri NED
    Jorden van Foreest NED
    Praggnanandhaa R IND
    Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL
    Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE
    Eric Hansen CAN
    Liem Quang Le VIE





  • Capablanca Memorial Elite Group

    19 -28 April 2022
    Havana, Cuba
    Elite Group 10 players
    Round robin
    Average rating: 2589

    Players

    Mareco Sandro ARG
    Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND
    Niemann Hans Moke USA
    Durarbayli Vasif ESP
    Quesada Perez Luis Ernesto CUB
    Yilmaz Mustafa TUR
    Quesada Perez Yasser CUB
    Almeida Quintana Omar CUB
    Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo CUB
    Albornoz Cabrera Carlos Daniel CUB

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  • Charity Cup Knockout - Meltwater Champions Chess Tour
    2nd event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour

    March 23 to 28, 2022 Berlin, Germany
    Carlsen is the winner.
    Final

    Carlsen, Magnus - Duda, Jan-Krzysztof: 2 - 0

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  • Berlin FIDE Grand Prix 2022
    3rd event of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 series.

    March 22 - April 4, 2022
    Berlin, Germany
    4 Pools
    A double round-robin within the groups
    The four group winners advance to the knockout stage of two-game matches

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  • Turkish Grand National Assembly ( TBMM in Turkish ) Chess Cup
    March 17 - 21 , 2022
    Ankara , Turkey


    Mustafa Yilmaz
    Cem Kaan Gokerkan
    Deniz Ozen
    Kivanc Haznedaroglu
    Kubra Ozturk Orenli
    Sila Caglar
    Ediz Gurel
    Isik Can
    >Vahap Sanal
    Bora Yarar
    Duru Okuyaz
    Gulenay Aydin

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  • FIDE Grand Prix 2022 Belgrade
    2nd event of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 series.

    March 1 - 7 , 2022
    Belgrade, Serbia
    4 Pools
    A double round-robin within the groups
    The four group winners advance to the knockout stage of two-game matches

    Standings - POOL A
    Grischuk, Alexander FIDE
    Andreikin, Dmitry FIDE
    Shankland , Sam USA
    Bacrot, Etienne FRA


    Standings - POOL B
    Giri , Anish NED
    Vitiugov, Nikita FIDE
    Harikrishna, Pentala IND
    Tabatabaei, Amin IRI

    Standings - POOL C
    Rapport, Richard USA
    Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi IND
    Fedoseev, Vladimir FID
    Shirov, Alexei ESP

    Standings - POOL D
    Mamedyarov , Shakhriyar AZE
    Vachier-Lagrave , Maxime FRA
    Yu Yangyi CHN
    Predke , Alexandr FIDE

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  • Airthings Masters Knockout stage , Finals

    Airthings Masters Preliminaries

    February 23 - 27
    1-day, 4-game matches 15 minutes for all moves,
    with a 10-second increment from move 1

    8 players advanced to the quarterfinals

    Quarterfinals

    Carlsen, Magnus - Le, Quang Liem
    Nepomniachtchi - Keymer, Vincent
    Esipenko, Andrey - Hansen, Eric
    Ding, Liren - Artemiev, Vladislav


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  • FIDE Grand Prix 2022 Berlin
    24 players qualified for the 2022 Grand Prix. Each qualifier plays in two of the three Grand Prix events.
    3 grand-prix will take place in Berlin , Germany and Belgrade, Serbia .

    February 3 to 17,
    Berlin, Germany
    4 Pools
    A double round-robin within the groups
    The four group winners advance to the knockout stage of two-game matches

    Pool A players

    Grischuk, Alexander 2764
    Nakamura, Hikaru 2736
    Esipenko, Andrey 2714
    Bacrot, Etienne 2642

    Pool B players

    Rapport, Richard 2763
    Fedoseev, Vladimir 2704
    Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2686
    Oparin, Grigoriy 2681

    Pool C players

    Aronian, Levon 2772
    Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi 2727
    Dubov, Daniil 2720
    Keymer, Vincent 2664

    Pool D players

    So, Wesley 2772
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2752
    Harikrishna, Pentala 2717
    Shirov, Alexei 2704

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  • Tata steel chess tournament 2022

    15 - 30 January 2022
    Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

    Masters & Challengers : 14 players each one
    Round robin

    Average rating: 2737

    Players - Masters tournament

    Magnus Carlsen 2865
    Fabiano Caruana 2792
    Anish Giri 2772
    Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2767
    Richard Rapport 2763
    Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2760
    Sergey Karjakin 2743

    Vidit Gujrathi 2720
    Daniil Dubov 2714
    Andrey Esipenko 2714
    Sam Shankland 2708
    Jorden van Foreest 2702
    Nils Grandelius 2672
    Praggnanandhaa R. 2612


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  • Gibraltar Chess Festival 2022 Women vs Men

    Scheveningen match between 10 women and 10 men
    from January 24 to February 3 , 2022

    Women’s Team - Average Rating 2450

    Pia Cramling SWE 2452
    Mariya Muzychuk UKR 2359
    Zhansaya Abdumalik KAZ 2491
    Gunay Mammadzada AZE 2470
    Antoaneta Stefanova BUL 2469

    Marie Sebag FRA 2460
    Marsel Efroimski ISR 2437
    Irene Kharisma Sukandar IND 2407
    Olga Girya RUS 2405
    Jovanka Houska ENG 2365

    Men’s Team - Average Rating 2465

    Sabino Brunello ITA 2503
    Bobby Cheng AUS 2550
    Leandro Krysa ARG 2531
    Bilel Bellahcene ALG 2508
    Ravi Haria ENG 2409

    Balazs Csonka HUN 2474
    Joe Gallagher SUI 2497
    Gillan Bwalya ZAM 2410
    Husain Aziz Nezad QAT 2359
    Eric Rosen USA 2356

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  • World Blitz Chess Champ. 2021 update

    Vachier-Lagrave is World Blitz Champion. Assaubayeva is Women's World Champion.

    29- 30 December 2021
    Warsaw, Poland
    179 players ( Open ), 105 players ( Women )
    21 rounds
    Time control: 3 minutes + 2 sec per move.

    Top 10 players - Blitz rating

    Carlsen Magnus NOR 2892
    Nakamura Hikaru USA 2884
    Artemiev Vladislav CFR 2830
    Firouzja Alireza FRA 2810
    Caruana Fabiano USA 2803

    Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL 2792
    Nepomniachtchi Ian CFR 2792
    Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2787
    Giri Anish NED 2778
    Erigaisi Arjun IND 2765


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  • World Rapid Chess Champ. 2021 update

    Abdusattorov is World Rapid Champion. Kosteniuk is Women's World Campion.

    26 - 28 December 2021
    Warsaw, Poland
    153 players ( Open ), 85 players ( Women )
    15 rounds
    Time control: 15 minutes + 10 sec per move.

    Top 10 players - Rapid rating

    Carlsen, Magnus 2842
    Nakamura, Hikaru 2836
    Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2801
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2798
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2773
    Caruana, Fabiano 2770
    Giri, Anish 2767
    Grischuk, Alexander 2763
    Karjakin, Sergey 2757
    Svidler, Peter 2752


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  • World Chess Championship 2021 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi

    26 November - 16 December 2021
    Dubai Exhibition Centre , United Arab Emirates
    14 games .

    Carlsen is the World Champion :

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  • European Team Chess Championship 2021

    Ukraine won Open section, Russia won Women's tournament.

    11 - 22 November 2021
    Catez , Slovenia
    Swiss system, 9 rounds
    Open 39 teams
    Women: 31 teams


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  • Tata Steel Chess India Blitz

    Aronian won with 11.5 points.

    20 - 21 November 2021
    Kolkata , India
    10 players

    Average rating: 2615
    Le, Quang Liem VIE
    Aronian, Levon ARM
    Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi IND
    Nihal Sarin IND
    Shankland, Sam USA

    Adhiban Baskaran IND
    Maghsoodloo, Parham IRI
    Harika, Dronavalli IND
    Sadhwani, Raunak IND
    Gukesh D IND


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  • Tata Steel Chess India Rapid update

    Erigaisi won with 6.5 points.

    17 - 19 November 2021
    Kolkata , India
    10 players
    Rapid games: Round robin
    25 minutes for the entire game,
    plus a 10-second increment starting from move one
    Average rating: 2465
    Aronian, Levon
    Praggnanandhaa R
    Erigaisi Arjun
    Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi

    Le, Quang Liem
    Karthikeyan, Murali
    Shankland, Sam
    Maghsoodloo, Parham
    Vaishali R
    Adhiban, B.

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  • FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament

    Firouzja and Lei Tingjie are the winners.

    25th October - 8th November 2021
    Riga (Latvia)
    Players: 114 ( Open ) and 50 ( Women)


    Top 10 Players - Ratings

    Caruana, Fabiano USA 2800
    Aronian, Levon ARM 2782
    Firouzja, Alireza FRA 2770
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2763

    Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2727
    Esipenko, Andrey RUS 2720
    Harikrishna, Pentala IND 2719
    Dubov, Daniil RUS 2714
    Alekseenko, Kirill RUS 2710
    Fedoseev, Vladimir RUS 2704


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  • U.S. Chess Championship

    So is the winner.

    October 5 - 19 , 2021
    12 players
    Round robin
    Saint Louis Chess Club
    Average rating: 2680
    Prize: $194.000

    Time control: 90 mn / 40 moves + 30 mn for the rest +
    30-second increment from move one

    Players

    Caruana, Fabiano 2800
    So, Wesley 2778
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2760
    Shankland, Sam 2720
    Xiong, Jeffery 2700

    Robson, Ray 2673
    Sevian, Samuel 2654 8 Swiercz, Dariusz 2647
    Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2645
    Naroditsky, Daniel 2623
    Lenderman, Aleksandr 2607
    Burke, John M 2554

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  • Russian Champ. Super Final

    October 9 - 20 , 2021
    12 players
    Round robin
    Ufa, Russia
    Average rating: 2677

    Time control: 90 mn / 40 moves + 30 mn for the rest +
    30-second increment from move one

    Players

    Fedoseev, Vladimir 2704
    Alekseenko, Kirill 2710
    Matlakov, Maxim 2682
    Rakhmanov, Aleksandr 2657
    Chigaev, Maksim 2639
    Goryachkina, Aleksandra 2602

    Andreikin, Dmitry 2728
    Vitiugov, Nikita 2727
    Esipenko, Andrey 2720
    Ponkratov, Pavel 2659
    Predke, Alexandr 2666
    Motylev, Alexander 2624

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  • Champions Chess Tour Finals

    Carlsen is the winner.

    September 25 - October 4 , 2021
    Oslo, Norway
    10 players
    Round robin
    Average rating 2768

    Time control: 15 mn for all moves + 10 sec

    Carlsen Magnus NOR
    So Wesley USA
    Aronian Levon ARM
    Radjabov Teimour AZE
    Giri Anish NED

    Nakamura Hikaru USA
    Artemiev Vladislav RUS
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA
    Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE
    Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL

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  • Women's World Team Championship

    Women's World Team Championship Final took place from 30 September - 3 October 2021.

    Quarter-finals

    Russia - FIDE Americas: 2 - 0 ( 4-0 ; 3-1 ) Armenia - Ukraine: 2 - 1 ( 3-1 ; 0.5-3.5 ; 1-3 ) Georgia - Azerbaijan : 1.5 - 0.5 ( 3.5 - 0.5 ; 2 - 2 ) India - Kazakhstan: 1.5 - 0.5 ( 2 - 2 ; 2.5 - 1.5 )

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  • European Club Cup ECCC chess tournament

    Mednyi Vsadnik and South Ural ( RUS ) won the Open and Women's Cup.

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  • Norway Chess 2021

    Carlsen is the winner.

    7th - 17th September 2021 , Stavenger , Norway
    6 players , Double round robin
    Average rating: 2760

    Players

    Carlsen, Magnus 2855
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2792
    Rapport, Richard 2760
    Karjakin, Sergey 2758
    Firouzja, Alireza 2754
    Tari, Aryan 2642

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  • Champions Showdown Chess960 2021

    Dominguez is the winner.

    September 8th - 10 th , 2021
    Saint Louis, USA

    10-player
    Round Robin Chess 960 ( Fischer Random )
    20 mn +10 sec increment

    Players

    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2817
    Kasparov, Garry 2812
    Caruana, Fabiano 2800
    Aronian, Levon 2782
    So, Wesley 2778
    Svidler, Peter 2763
    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2762
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2760
    Nakamura, Hikaru 2736
    Shankland, Sam 2720


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  • Aimchess US Rapid - Champions Chess Tour

    9th event of the Champions Chess Tour
    August 28th - September 5th, 2021
    Online at chess24.com

    8 players

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  • Sinquefield Cup 2021 Grand Chess Tour

    St Louis, USA,
    10 players
    Round robin
    Average rating : 2742



    Players

    Caruana, Fabiano 2806
    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2782
    So, Wesley 2772
    Rapport, Richard 2763
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2758

    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2751
    Svidler, Peter 2714
    Xiong, Jeffery 2710
    Shankland, Sam 2709
    Swiercz, Dariusz 2655
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  • St. Louis Rapid & Blitz

    August 11 - 16 , 2021
    Saint Louis, USA
    10 players
    Rapid Round Robin
    Blitz Double Round Robin

    Caruana, Fabiano USA
    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE
    So Wesley USA
    Nakamura Hikaru USA
    Le, Quang Liem VIE

    Svidler, Peter RUS
    Dominguez Leinier USA
    Rapport, Richard HUN
    Xiong Jeffery CHN
    Shankland, Sam USA

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  • FIDE World Cup 2021

    206 participants in the World Cup
    103 participants in the first Women’s World Cup
    July 10 - August 8 , 2021
    Krasnaya Polyana , Russia
    Knock-Out system tournament.
    Carlsen , Caruana ... more.

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  • Chessable Masters Rapid Knockout 2021

    8th event of the Champions Chess Tour . 8 players will play a knockout tournament from August 3rd to 6th, 2021

    Qualified Players after the preliminaries.

    1 So, Wesley USA 11 points
    2 Aronian, Levon ARM 10.5
    3 Firouzja, Alireza FRA 10.5
    4 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 10.5
    5 Artemiev, Vladislav RUS 9.5
    6 Le, Quang Liem VIE 9
    7 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 9
    8 Van Foreest, Jorden NED 8.5


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  • Biel grandmaster tournament

    July 25 - August 4 ,2021
    Biel, Switzerland
    8 players
    7 rounds Classical games
    7 rounds Rapid games
    14 rounds Blitz games



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  • Croatia Grand Chess Tour 2021

    July 5 - 12 , 2021
    Zagreb, Croatia
    Rapid : Round robin
    Blitz: Double Round robin
    Rapid games : 2 points for a win and
    1 for a draw.

    Vachier-Lagrave won with 23 points.

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  • Goldmoney Asian Rapid 2021

    June 26 - July 4, 2021
    16 players
    Rapid games

    Top 8 players advanced to the quarterfinals.
    Aronian, Artemiev, Ding Liren, Carlsen, So, Duda, Giri and Erigaisi

    Aronian is the winner. 2- Artemiev. 3- Carlsen 4- Ding Liren

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  • Paris Grand Chess Tour 2021

    June 16 -23 , 2021
    Paris France
    11 players
    Rapid : Round robin
    Blitz: Double Round robin

    Players - Ratings Rapid - Ratings Blitz

    Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2860 2822
    Ian Nepomniachtchi 2778 2785
    Levon Aronian 2778 2739
    Fabiano Caruana 2773 2711

    Teimour Radjabov 2758 2757
    Vladimir Kramnik 2756 2797
    Peter Svidler 2742 2754

    Wesley So 2741 2816
    Richard Rapport 2727 2759
    Alireza Firouzja 2703 2770
    Étienne Bacrot 2667 2673



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  • Women's Speed Chess Champ. Round of 16

    June 12 - July 3 , 2021
    16 players
    Online , Knock-out tournament

    Koneru - Assaubayeva : 7.5 - 14.5
    Lagno - Gunina : 11.5 - 10.5

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  • Turkish Women's Chess Championship

    June 13 - 19 2021
    Corum
    Turkey
    32 players
    7 rounds
    Average rating: 1840

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  • Superbet Grand Chess Tour

    June 3 - 15 , 2021
    Bucharest, Romania
    10 players
    Round robin
    Average rating: 2751

    Mamedyarov won with 6 points.

    Players - ratings
    Caruana, Fabiano 2820
    Aronian, Levon 2781
    Giri, Anish 2780
    Grischuk, Alexander 2776
    So, Wesley 2770

    Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2770
    Radjabov, Teimour 2765
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2760
    Lupulescu, Constantin 2656
    Deac, Bogdan-Daniel 2627



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  • FTX Crypto Cup - Meltwater Champions Chess Tour

    Finals 26 -31 , 2021
    Preliminaries: May 23 - 25 , 2021

    16 players

    Average rating: 2766

    Finals:

    Carlsen - So : 2 - 2
     

    3rd place:
    Radjabov - Nepomniachtchi : 2-2

    Semi-finals:

    Carlsen - Radjabov: 2-2 ; 3-1
    Nepomniachtchi - So : 1.5 -2.5 ; 1-2

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  • Women's Grand-Prix Gibraltar

    May 22 - June 2 , 2021
    Gibraltar
    12 players
    Round robin
    Time control: 100'/40 moves + 50'/20 moves and
    15' + 30'' from 1st move.

    Players

    Lagno, Kateryna 2546
    Muzychuk, Mariya 2544
    Muzychuk, Anna 2535
    Dzagnidze, Nana 2524
    Saduakassova, Dinara 2500

    Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat 2494
    Kashlinskaya, Alina 2494
    Abdumalik, Zhansaya 2472
    Paehtz, Elisabeth 2467
    Stefanova, Antoaneta 2466
    Mammadzada, Gunay 2443
    Gunina, Valentina 2427.

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  • 36 players qualified to FIDE World Cup

    36 players qualified to 2021 Sochi FIDE World Cup after European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament which took place from 28-29 May.

    Artemiev Vladislav (RUS, 2709)
    Tomashevsky Evgeny (RUS, 2706)
    Esipenko Andrey (RUS, 2701)
    Predke Alexandr (RUS, 2690)
    Matlakov Maxim (RUS, 2688)
    Fedoseev Vladimir (RUS, 2687)
    David Anton Guijarro (ESP, 2673)
    Cheparinov Ivan (BUL, 2667)
    Sjugirov Sanan (RUS, 2663)

    Lupulescu Constantin (ROU, 2656)
    Oparin Grigoriy (RUS, 2652)
    Laznicka Viktor (CZE, 2647)
    Motylev Alexander (RUS, 2641)
    Martirosyan Haik (ARM, 2637)
    Yilmaz Mustafa (TUR, 2630)
    Bogdan Deac Daniel (ROU, 2627)
    Ponkratov Pavel (RUS, 2624)
    Shant Sargsyan (ARM, 2618)

    Alekseev Evgeny (RUS, 2617)
    Svane Rasmus (GER, 2615)
    Zvjaginsev Vadim (RUS, 2614)
    Braun Arik (GER, 2609)
    Indjic Aleksandar (SRB, 2607)
    Ivanisevic Ivan (SRB, 2606)
    Jobava Baadur (GEO, 2603)
    Krasenkow Michal (POL, 2597)
    Brkic Ante (CRO, 2592)

    Hovhannes Gabuzyan (ARM, 2590)
    Thai Dai Van Nguyen (CZE, 2577)
    Emre Can (TUR, 2569)
    Paichadze Luka (GEO, 2565)
    Martinovic Sasa (CRO, 2548)
    Savchenko Boris (RUS, 2538)

    Afanasiev Nikita (RUS, 2522)
    Kozak Adam (HUN, 2518)
    Teclaf Pawel (POL, 2502)

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  • Russian Team Championship 2021

    1 - 10 May 2021
    Sochi, Russia
    9 teams
    Round robin

    Bronze Horseman won Russian Team Champ. Moscow Chess Team won the Women's Championship.

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  • New in Chess Classic Knockout 2021 - Champions Chess Tour

    28- April - 2 May 2021
    8 players advanced to the Knock-out tournament

    Players

    Carlsen
    Aronian
    So
    Radjabov

    Mamedyarov
    Firouzja
    Le
    Nakamura


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  • Candidates Tournament

    Nepomniachtchi is the winner. He will challenge the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.

    19 - 28 April 2021
    15 March - 4 April
    Yekaterinbourg, Russia
    8 players
    Double round robin

    Players

    Caruana, Fabiano 2842
    Ding Liren 2805
    Nepomniachtchi Ian 2774
    Grischuk, Alexander 2777

    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2767
    Giri, Anish 2763
    Wang, Hao 2762
    Alekseenko, Kirill 2698





  • Magnus Carlsen Invitational Knock-out tournament - Champions Chess Tour

    13 - 21 March 2021
    8 players advanced to the Knock-out tournament

    Quarterfinals

    Carlsen - Aronian : 2.5 - 0.5
    Nakamura - Nepomniachtchi : 2 - 2


    So - Firouzja : 2.5 - 0.5
    Giri - Vachier-Lagrave : 2 - 2

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  • Magnus Carlsen Invitational Preliminaries - Champions Chess Tour

    13 - 21 March 2021
    16 players

    Average rating: 2731

    Players

    Carlsen, Magnus NOR
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA
    Nakamura, Hikaru USA
    Aronian, Levon ARM
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS
    Dubov, Daniil RUS
    Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE
    Radjabov, Teimour AZE

    So, Wesley USA
    Giri, Anish NED
    Karjakin, Sergey RUS
    Firouzja, Alireza FIDE
    Anton Guijarro, David ESP
    Grandelius, Nils SWE
    Pichot, Alan ARG
    Van Foreest, Jorden NED


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  • Opera Euro Rapid - Champions Chess Tour

    6th - 14th February 2021
    16 players
    Average rating: 2757
    15 minutes for all moves,
    with a 10-second increment from move 1


    Players

    Carlsen, Magnus NOR
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA
    Ding, Liren CHN
    Nakamura, Hikaru USA
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier USA

    Grischuk, Alexander RUS
    Aronian, Levon ARM
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS
    Duda, Jan-Krzysztof POL
    Dubov, Daniil RUS

    Radjabov, Teimour AZE
    So, Wesley USA
    Giri, Anish NED
    Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi IND
    Shankland, Sam USA
    Bluebaum, Matthias GER


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  • Tata Steel Chess - Masters

    15-31 January 2021
    Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

    Masters & Challengers : 14 players each one
    Round robin

    Average rating: 2728

    Time control: 100'/40 moves + 50'/20 moves and
    15' + 30'' from 1st move.

    Players - Masters tournament

    Carlsen, Magnus 2862
    Caruana, Fabiano 2823
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2784
    Giri, Anish 2764
    Firouzja, Alireza 2749
    Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2743

    Harikrishna, Pentala 2732
    Dubov, Daniil 2710
    Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2705
    Anton Guijarro, David 2679
    Esipenko, Andrey 2677
    Van Foreest, Jorden 2671
    Grandelius, Nils 2663
    Tari, Aryan 2625

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  • Caplin British Online Championship    

    December 18 2020 - January 3. 2021

    Michael Adams is the winner

    Top 3
    Rank PlayersCountry Point
    1 Adams Michael ENG 7
    2 Ghasi Ameet K ENG 7
    3 Wadsworth Matthew J ENG 6.5





  • Airthings Masters - Champions Chess Tour 2020

    26 December 2020 - 3 January 2021
    Online at chess24.com

    12 players

    Average rating: 2774

    Players

    Carlsen, Magnus NOR
    Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA
    Nakamura, Hikaru USA
    Aronian, Levon ARM
    Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS

    Dubov, Daniil RUS
    Radjabov, Teimour AZE
    So, Wesley USA
    Giri, Anish NED
    Harikrishna, Pentala IND
    Anton Guijarro, David ESP


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