by Carlos Alberto Colodro 4/26/2021 – With two wins and three draws, Magnus Carlsen climbed to sole first place in the preliminaries of the New in Chess Classic. The world champion and Hikaru Nakamura are the only two players who remain undefeated in the online tournament. Naka, who also collected two wins on Sunday, is now sharing second place with Alireza Firouzja. The best score of day 2, was obtained by Vietnamese star Le Quang Liem. | Pictured: Carlsen, Tari and Christiansen are playing from the Meltwater offices in Oslo.
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Published April 25, 2021, 2:29 PM
Wesley So
Grandmaster Wesley So got off to a rough start after absorbing three defeats in his first five games in the New In Chess Classic of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Sunday, April 25.
So yielded to Iran-born Alireza Firouzja, Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda and England’s Gawain Jones but cushioned the impact of his free fall with wins over rising Indian star Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
The painful start put the Fischer Random king and two-time United States champion in a four-way logjam at 11th place with two points, putting him in danger of missing the playoff round for the first time after five legs of this tour.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Top Poker Players will compete in a live-action chess tournament on Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura s Twitch channel May 5-6. Players will be competing for a trophy and raising funds with the help of Softgiving. Strong poker players are encouraged to express their interest today to
[email protected]. GM Hikaru Nakamura is the #1 ranked in the world at 10 minute or shorter time limits. His Twitch channel has 1.2M followers.
Each poker player will have a dedicated chess coach. Popular chess streamers NM James Canty, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, IM Eric Rosen, IM Levy Rozman, WGM Jennifer Shahade, IM Anna Rudolf and others will provide the lessons.
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Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are playing in the Candidates Tournament and therefore couldn’t accept their automatic qualifying spots for those in the top 8 of the tour standings, but Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura all play.
17-year-old superstar Alireza Firouzja was voted back in by chess24 premium members, who also voted for Daniil Dubov, but the Russian was unable to play as he’s commentating on the Candidates from Yekaterinburg.
15-year-old Praggnanandhaa now has the chance to face off against the very best in the world after dominating the first event on the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. He’s going to have some help preparing from the very best.
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