Gukesh Dommaraju (Gukesh calendar), Magnus Carlsen (Carlsen calendar), Hikaru Nakamura (Nakamura calendar), Arjun Erigaisi (Erigaisi calendar), Fabiano Caruana (Caruana calendar), Wei Yi (Yi calendar) are going to play a a double-round-robin format with special Norway Chess rules. Games are played with a time control of 120 minutes with an increment of 10 seconds starting from move 41. If a game is drawn, an Armageddon game is played to determine the winner. Norway Chess 2025 schedule and information

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Special note: Good Friday will have no broadcast of Grenke. Games will be uploaded the next day manually. The rules of the holiday in Germany also forbid dancing. Information, schedule and participants: Grenke Freestyle Chess / Grenke Open

While the situation in the 2800 club is heating up, the 2700 club is in deep crisis. In August the 2700 club was at its lowest number since 2011 having only 31 players above the mark. As of today, the deflation is even deeper, as there are only 29 players above 2700. Ten years ago, in December 2014, there were 45 players above 2700.

The decimation is not only present among the 2700+ players. Currently the last player in the top 100 is Francisco Vallejo Pons with 2638 ELO. Ten years ago the last player in top 100 was Vladimir Baklan with 2655 ELO.

The rating deflation is real. While it is visually unpleasing to see the numbers dropping, there is one important consequence – being 2750 today is definitely stronger than being 2750 ten years ago. This is one of the explanations why we have high precision in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024

The Freestyle chess tournament is organized and sponsored by Jan Henric Buettner, with Magnus Carlsen as co-organizer. It was recently announced that Freestyle chess expands into a Grand Slam, including events in different cities in 2024 and 2025. Carlsen’s new Freestyle Chess startup, already backed by millions in venture capital money with 25 of the world’s top players committed to play on the tour, underscores his belief that the format can grip fans across the globe. “What we’re playing now is in many ways a purer, long-form game than normal classical chess,” says Carlsen. “You’re sitting down at the board, and you have to think from the very beginning, and it just feels fresh

Immediately after Freestyle chess starts the World Chess Championship 2024 – Gukesh vs Ding Liren. Live games from Gukesh – Ding match will be daily on Chessdom.com, with live video, games commentary, analysis and more.

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Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com with video commentary and analysis. The Saint Louis Masters will happen parallel to the World Chess Championship 2024 that will have detailed coverage on Chessdom. Latest: See Carlsen’s take on Gukesh Ding here Live: Gukesh – Ding 2024 LIVE, World Chess Championship

Saint Louis Masters 2024 participants

Previous winners Fabiano Caruana from the United States and the Dutch players Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest are also making another attempt at the title in the Masters tournament. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg is pleased with the field of participants. “I am always looking for a combination of well-known top players and talents.

The Masters are attended by Grandmasters who can still be seen as talented in terms of age, but who have been performing so well in terms of performance that they have actually outgrown that status. I am mainly talking about Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and indeed Gukesh. I am proud when I see how they, partly due to their previous participation in our tournament, are now really structurally among the world’s top. In addition, I aim to select as many players as possible who enjoy a fight. In that respect too, I think we can expect an interesting tournament.”

Tata Steel Chess 2025 video

Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants

The currently lesser-known talents will play in the Challengers tournament. Among others, the two reigning youth world champions Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan) and Divya Deshmukh (India) will play there. But also the eleven-year-old promise Faustino Oro from Argentina, the fourteen-year-old Lu Miaoyi from China and the sixteen-year-old Ediz Gürel from Turkey have been invited by Van den Berg. Van den Berg: “I am really looking forward to their arrival and I am curious whether they can make the same great steps as the aforementioned names at the Masters. Our tournament really proves to be a springboard to the world top, and we as an organization are very proud of that.”

Challengers

This is the game Fabiano Caruana – Sam Shankland from round 11 of the US Chess Championship 2024.

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Fabiano Caruana – Sam Shankland, US Chess Championship 2024

This is the game Leinier Dominguez Perez – Fabiano Caruana from round 10 of the US Chess Championship 2024.

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Leinier Dominguez Perez – Fabiano Caruana, US Chess Championship 2024