The 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss are heading into their final weekend in Douglas, Isle of Man. The 11-round tournaments are not only some of the strongest Swiss System (rather than Round Robin or knockout tournaments, as are common in high-level invitationals) events of the year, but also critical for the 2024 Candidates and Women’s Candidates tournaments to be held in April in Toronto, ON.
The 2023 Qatar Masters concluded with Uzbekistan's GMs Nodirbek Yakubboev and Nodirbek Abdusattorov splitting top honors with 7/9, ahead of a field featuring both GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, among many others. Enjoy some highlights in this week's Wednesday Workout.
This week's Wednesday Workout checks in on some old friends playing the 2023 Qatar Masters: world number one GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura elected to play in Qatar rather than the 2023 U.S. Championship, and Carlsen already made waves for a game we covered yesterday. Here are some other highlights from their event so far. Headed into round 7, Carlsen and Nakamura are currently tied for the lead.
Yesterday's round nine of the 2023 U.S. and U.S. Women's Championships delivered a number of attacking games with lots of cool ideas, occasional blunders, and some missed opportunities. It was also a significant round for the standings as it reshaped the tournament landscape, especially in the women's section.
Round eight brought another round of exciting chess in the 2023 U.S. Championships. We can safely say that it was a round with some of the most topsy-turvy results for the standings.