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GM Gergely Antal emerged as the winner of the 2023 Hungarian Individual Chess Championship. Men, women, and some invited youngsters aspiring for a place in the Hungarian U25 national team in the 2024 Olympiad in Budapest competed in a shared pool but were ranked separately. All in all, 30 players battled in a 9-round Swiss tournament on December 12-20. | Photos: Hungarian Chess Federation
Four games, four wins that was Praggnanandhaa’s tally at the start of Geza Hetenyi Memorial in Budapest. Pragg thus became the eighth Indian to break the 2700-elamark. However, the Indian speed train was stopped in the fifth round when he lost to Amin Tabatabaei. The prodigy returned to his winning ways the very next round, as he defeated Peter Prohazka with black on Sunday. | Photo: Zoltan Fülöp
Last week we presented a Computer Challenge. It's a position in which even the best chess engines will not find the solution even if you run them for a very long time. Our readers were asked to come up with the logic and strategy of the solution themselves, and then confirm everything with the help of the computer. The result: success? Here is the full truth on the historical endgame puzzle.
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Now there is a new candidate for place one – and you can help him achieve his goal. The boy who is racing to break Karjakin s youngest GM record is Abhimanyu Mishra.
Abhimanyu learnt the rules of chess when he was two and a half years old. He became the youngest national expert at the age of 7 years and 6 months, the youngest National Master in the US at the age of nine years and two months. In late 2019, he beat R. Praggnanandhaa s record of becoming the youngest IM in the world at the age of 10 years, 9 months and 3 days. The youngster who lives in New Jersey, USA. He is an amazing talent and is now going after the record of becoming the world s youngest GM – ever.