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Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024 8:19 am

  • 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.
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GRENKE Chess Classic 2024

GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 Games and Results

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tournaments for Thursday 28th March 2024 combined with links to official website, live coverage and PGN file
EventSiteFEDUK TimeRd
WebLivePGN
Live Games now here
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024KarlsruheGER17:305
GRENKE Chess Classic 2024KarlsruheGER19:306
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