Anish Giri won the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023 ahead of all the top players in the world - Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana. He played some phenomenal chess throughout the event to win it with a rating performance of 2849, scoring 8.5/13 and gaining 16 Elo points. Anish has been very close to winning the tournament multiple times, but this is the first time he has clinched the trophy at Wijk Aan Zee! We invited him for a livestream to get his thoughts on winning this prestigious tournament. Check out his full interview with IM Sagar Shah below.
Play Magnus Group today announces its signing of top 10 chess player, Dutch #1, and one of the most popular figures in chess, Anish Giri.
The 27-year-old Grandmaster has signed a long-term. | April 27, 2022
FTX Crypto Cup: Players Criticized For Playing Theoretical Draws
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So tied their first match in the final of the FTX Crypto Cup, with two theoretical draws and a win each. In the consolation final between GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Teimour Radjabov, the players went for four quick, theoretical draws. On social media, several grandmasters expressed their disappointment.
How to watch?
The games of the FTX Crypto Cup 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 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe.
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Relieved
Magnus Carlsen revolutionized the chess world last year, as his conglomerate of companies, the Play Magnus Group, announced the first online tour for elite players. Carlsen was the deserved winner of the tour, and once it was clear the complications relating to the Covid-19 pandemic would continue in 2021 a second tour was announced.
Meanwhile, 1.b3 has also found its way into the practice of today s world elite, and now finally a modern top ten player has taken on the subject for ChessBase: none other than Grandmaster Wesley So!
After winning the preliminaries in the first four events of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, the world champion had surprisingly not won a single time, getting knocked out in the quarterfinals of the Airthings Masters by Daniil Dubov, in the semifinals of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational by Ian Nepomniachtchi, and losing two finals against Wesley So.