of khartoum on saturday, as more than 500 deaths have been reported, though the true number of casualties is believed to be much higher. the united nations and african union are warning that the people of sudan are in dire need of a humanitarian truce. martin griffiths, the un s emergency relief coordinator, is being sent to sudan along with a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian operations. it s understood many of the aid agency s warehouses were looted by fighting military factions. thousands of people are evacuating on ships to the saudi arabian port city ofjeddah. our africa correspondent andrew harding has recently arrived injeddah, and gave us this update. as the fighting intensifies in khartoum, people are fleeing either north to egypt, but increasingly fleeing quite a long journey, people talking 16 30 hours to get to the coast, to get to port sudan and then hoping to get on these. well, there s a range, a flotilla, if you like, of warships, saudi arabian warships
aka gothamchess on youtube he s an american chess international master, commentator and has one of the most followed chess accounts on youtube. first of all, understand this championship final, it was pretty dramatic. if you want to compare to other sports, maybe like nba finals. walk us through about how this title was handed out. thank you for bringing this up with a diehard new york knicks fan. it was a rough day. but it was a tense match. weather can win 6.5 wins the match. historically most of those games and entires. we rarely see decisive games. and fans sit around at five, six hours hoping something happens. not in this match. we had majority decisive games, you could feel the pressure, you
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GM Magnus Carlsen takes the top seed after 15 games in the preliminary rounds. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.
New In Chess Classic: Carlsen, Nakamura Top Seeds
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The games of the New in Chess Classic preliminaries can be found here as part of our live events platform. IM Levy Rozman and IM Anna Rudolf are providing daily commentary on GM Hikaru Nakamura s Twitch channel starting at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 19:00 Central Europe.
GMs Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Alireza Firouzja, Le Quang Liem, and Teimour Radjabov finished in 4th-8th place, respectively, and advance to the quarterfinals. GM Leinier Dominguez Perez almost made it to the top eight, ending the day only half a point behind Radjabov.