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- The Week in Chess 1533 of 25th March 2024 by Mark Crowther. 38 stories and 8591 games. Links down the right hand margin for games in PGN or Chessbase format or on the The Week in Chess Download page.
- With all the chess played these days in multiple formats, online and in person it's very hard to keep up. The original idea of everything summarised in one place has never been more relevant. Follow your favourite players each week, what happened in your favourite opening? The PGN files can be read by many chess programs. If you do find it useful please consider a donation. £30 (or £4 a month) via Paypal will get you a copy of the TWIC DB which has 3742122 games in at the end of 2023. I do a zipped conversion to PGN as well.
- A compilation of the games can be had for a donation of £30. There have been over 3.5 million games in TWIC since the first edition on 17th September 1994.
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Tue Mar 26 16:23:00 2024)
The GRENKE Chess Classic is a double round robin tournament played at an accelerated 45 minutes plus 10 seconds a move time control. Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, MVL, Richard Rapport, Vincent Keymer and Daniel Fridman play two rounds a day 26th to 31st March 2024. Then on April 1st there is a final set of tie-break matches 1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th and 5th vs 6th to decide the exact final placings. Read more ....
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 (Karlsruhe GER)
Tue 26th Mar 2024 - Sun 31st Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Results - Live
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 (6 players 10 Rds DRR Indiv TC:45m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games | Live
American Cup 2024
American Cup 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Fri Mar 22 21:12:00 2024)
The American Cup took place Tue 12th to Thu 21st Mar in Saint Louis. The format was a knock-out tournament with double elimination. A mixture of Classical first and then rapid games are played followed by tie-breaks if required. Open event: Caruana, So, Dominguez, Aronian, Shankland, Robson, Sevian and Oparin. Women's: Krush, Lee, Tokhirjonova, Zatonskih, Paikidze, Abrahamyan, Jennifer Yu, Zoey Tang. Levon Aronian was unbeaten throughout and defeated Wesley So 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. Alice Lee won the women's event, she lost to Irina Krush in the original final, beat her in the Grand Final and then won the final two blitz games in the Grand Final reset. Read more ....
American Cup 2024 (Saint Louis USA)
Tue 12th Mar 2024 - Thu 21st Mar 2024 -
Official Site
American Cup Champ (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Champ
American Cup Elim (7 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Elim
American Cup Blitz 2024 (7 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+2spm)
American Cup Elim w (7 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Champ Elim w
American Cup Champ w (8 players 5 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Champ w
Reykjavik Open 2024
Reykjavik Open 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Fri Mar 22 18:56:00 2024)
The Reykjavik Open took place 15th to 21st March 2024. Leading players: Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Xiangyu Xu, Jules Moussard, Matthieu Cornette, Paulius Pultinevicius etc. Top seed Bogdan-Daniel Deac won with 7.5/9 half a point clear of the field. Read more ....
Reykjavik Open 2024 (Reykjavik ISL)
Fri 15th Mar 2024 - Thu 21st Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Results
Reykjavik Open 2024 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 29 11:53:00 2024)
The 5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters takes place 29th February to 7th March 2024. Players: Anish Giri, Arjun Erigaisi, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Bu Xiangzhi, Ma Qun and Xu Xiangyu. Read more ....
5th Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 (Shenzhen CHN)
Thu 29th Feb 2024 - Thu 7th Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Results
5th Shenzhen Longgang (8 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Feb 26 18:32:00 2024)
The 6th Prague International Chess Festival takes place Mon 26th Feb (opening ceremony) to Thu 7th Mar 2024. There are two strong Round Robin tournaments. The Masters with Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit, Gukesh, Keymer, Rapport, Maghsoodloo, Navara, Bartel and Thai Dai Van Nguyen. The Challengers isn't too shabby either with Korobov, L'Ami, Santos Latasa, Rodshtein etc. There are other events such as the Futures, Open, Rapids, Chess960 and many amateur groups too. Read more ....
6th Prague International Chess Festival 2024 (Prague CZE)
Mon 26th Feb 2024 - Thu 7th Mar 2024 -
Official Site - Live
6th Prague Masters 2024 (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Masters
6th Prague Challengers (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Challengers
6th Prague Futures (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Futures
Prague Int Open 2024 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Open
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 8 22:31:00 2024)
The Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge takes place Fri 9th to 16th Feb 2024. Rapid Round Robin followed by a Knockout at Standard time controls. This is Fischer Random, Chess960, Shuffle Chess by another name. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, D Gukesh, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Ding Liren and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. I don't have the ability to display Chess960 but will try and produce a downloadable file each day. Truthfully I've never found Chess960 at all interesting. Read more ....
Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 (Wangels GER)
Fri 9th Feb 2024 - Fri 16th Feb 2024 -
Official Site - Live
Freestyle Chess GOAT Prel (8 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Prelim
Freestyle Chess GOAT KO (8 players 3 Rds KO Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games KO
Chessable Masters 2024
Chessable Masters 2024 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Wed Feb 7 19:17:00 2024)
The Chessable Masters took place Fri 2nd to Wed 7th Feb 2024, the format was double elimination. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Denis Lazavik, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, Vladimir Fedoseev and Alireza Firouzja all competed for the title in Division 1. Carlsen ended up winning the event after beating Denis Lazavik in the winners final and then in the Grand Final he lost to Alireza Firouzja, this meant both Carlsen and Firouzja had lost one match so a final match was played to decide who won, Carlsen did, 2-0. Vincent Keymer beat Levon Aronian in the Division 2 final and has qualified for the next main event, Alexey Sarana beat Alexander Grischuk in the Division 3 final and will play in Division 2 next time. Read more ....
Chessable Masters 2024 (chess.com INT)
Fri 2nd Feb 2024 - Wed 7th Feb 2024 -
Official Site
Chessable Masters Div 1 W (8 players 5 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div1 W
Chessable Masters Div 1 L (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div1 L
Chessable Masters Div 2 W (16 players 6 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div2 W
Chessable Masters Div 2 L (8 players 6 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div2 L
Chessable Masters Div 3 W (32 players 7 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div3 W
Chessable Masters Div 3 L (8 players 4 Rds DEKO Indiv TC:10m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Div3 L
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TWIC is 29. First issue 17th September 1994.