Anton Korobov and
@VincentKeymer04
are still on perfect scores after two rounds at the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament, and the two leaders will play each other on Monday!
Gukesh: "If I had to pinpoint a moment where I really felt this could be my moment was probably... after I lost to Firouzja... Even though I just had a painful loss, I was feeling at my absolute best. Maybe this loss gave me so much motivation."
#FIDECandidates
"In terms of rivals, there are tiers. The first tier is like no rivals, and then a little bit after that it's Hikaru... He's definitely second after no rivals," says Magnus Carlsen.
#ChessChamps
#AICup
Congratulations to 17-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov on winning the 2021 World Rapid Championship! He beat Magnus Carlsen in rapid chess and then Ian Nepomniachtchi in a blitz playoff:
#c24live
#RapidBlitz
Hans Niemann: "I am not going to let chesscom, I am not going to let Magnus Carlsen, I'm not going to let Hikaru Nakamura, the 3 arguably biggest entities in chess, simply slander my reputation"
#SinquefieldCup
Caruana and Nepomniachtchi finally, reluctantly shake hands, and are met with an applause after the game ends.
It's a draw, and Gukesh wins the
#FIDECandidates
!
Nakamura on Carlsen: "This is the future for him. The Indians are coming for him. It's going to be one Indian after another, after another, after another, after another—all the disciples of Vishy!"
#QatarMasters2023
"Chess is in good hands for the future! I think this generation of players born 1990-94 really have dominated for a long time & finally now with these youngsters born 2003+ we have a generation that's worthy of succeeding us when the time comes & the time could be fairly soon!"
17-year-old 🇮🇳 Gukesh has smashed Kasparov's record as the youngest player to win the Candidates cycle and qualify for a match for the undisputed World Chess Championship title!
#FIDECandidates
Magnus: "Gukesh actually asked me in Germany... what he should do in the Candidates. And I said, I don't have any good advice, I don't know.
I only said that he should not go crazy and he should just look for his chances because other people will go crazy."
#FIDECandidates
Gukesh on whether he's more excited now that he's so close to winning:
"I've been eager and excited the same way from the first round... In general, my mental state has been the same."
Try to find a cooler 17-year-old. 😎
#FIDECandidates
Peter Svidler: "Let's at least get some things stated live on air. I do not agree with the war my country is waging in Ukraine. I do not believe Ukraine, or Ukrainian people, are my enemies, or anybody's enemies"
#FIDEGrandPrix
#c24live
"This game is a message to everyone. This entire thing started with me saying chess speaks for itself & I think this game spoke for itself & showed the chess player I am. It also showed I'm not going to back down & I'm going to play my best chess regardless of the pressure"
With Vidit's win over Nepomniachtchi, we have 4 Indians in the quarterfinals of the
#FIDEWorldCup
Open section, and zero Russians, for the first time ever!
Magnus: "Chess has taught me that spending a lot of time on chess will make you very, very good at chess. Everything is not necessarily transferrable... the most helpful thing I've learned from chess is to make good decisions based on incomplete data in a limited amount of time"
"If it were not for my wife, I'm not so sure that I would've been able to mentally recover from it [yesterday's loss against Vidit]." -
@GMHikaru
#FIDECandidates
Ding Liren: "I haven't dreamt of becoming the World Champion. At one point I just want to become the player who plays best. It's not so important to become the World Champion"
#NepoDing
Congratulations to
@MagnusCarlsen
on winning the World Blitz Championship and completing his 3rd Triple Crown of Classical, Rapid and Blitz world titles!
#RapidBlitz
#c24live
Carlsen wins an absolutely stunning endgame, featuring an underpromotion to a knight (to avoid stalemate), and takes the match for his team!
#GlobalChessLeague
Nakamura-Gukesh ends in a draw, meaning Gukesh has guaranteed at least tiebreaks tomorrow!
If Caruana-Nepo ends in a draw, it means Gukesh wins the
#FIDECandidates
today!
Magnus: "Unfortunately I cannot particularly speak on that but people can draw their own conclusion & they certainly have. I have to say I am very impressed by Niemann's play & I think his mentor Maxim Dlugy must have been doing a great job"
#ChessChamps
👑
@MagnusCarlsen
won the July 4th late
#TitledTuesday
with the rare and PERFECT 11/11 score, beating super-GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura along the way! 👏
17-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov not only won the World Rapid Championship but was gifted a 2-room apartment and a €20,000 prize by the Uzbek government!
#c24live
#RapidBlitz
🔥
@AnishGiri
wins his 1st classical game against Carlsen since beating Magnus as a 16-year-old in Wijk aan Zee all the way back in 2011!
#c24live
#TataSteelChess
Earlier today, with Giri on the broadcast, the commentators speculated that Nakamura may have mixed up his opening lines.
Nakamura: "I mean, there's a reason I'm here and Anish Giri is not here."
#FIDECandidates
18-year-old
@rpraggnachess
defeats the world champion in the endgame!
Jovanka: "The youngster, in full control from start to finish... strategically, he just simply outplayed the world champion."
#TataSteelChess
All hail
@AlirezaFirouzja
, the new World no. 2!
He'll be rated 2804 on the December FIDE rating list at the age of 18 years & 5 months, breaking Magnus Carlsen's record of crossing 2800 at 18 years & 11 months!
#c24live
#ETCC2021
"It's good to see Maxime doing well. There was never really any reason for him all of a sudden to be falling off—this is the level he's always been capable of playing at!"
#ChessChamps
#AICup
Congratulations to
@MagnusCarlsen
, who will give up his classical World Championship title in 2023, but goes into the new year as the Rapid World Champion!
#c24live
#RapidBlitz
Congratulations to Wesley So on crashing Magnus Carlsen's 30th birthday party to win the
#SkillingOpen
, the 1st tournament on the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour!
#c24live
#ChessChamps
"The one non-negotiable point for me, if I ever were to play the World Championship again, is that there would have to be more games & shorter time controls. I think specifically 2 games in a day is very interesting... With the classical time control I think there is just no way"
Dear chess24 community,
Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey and being a part of something special! Regrettably, we will be closing down the chess24 site and apps at the end of January.
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Nakamura: "Online chess is still the same as over the board. There are some people who try to say it wasn’t. All I would say to that is just look at who won most of those online tournaments — it was this guy called Magnus & he seems to be pretty decent at OTB chess too!"
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