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USA and Uzbekistan, on pinch India and China, person nan world’s existent 4 champion chess teams, truthful nan announcement that nan brace will meet astatine Miami connected 27-28 July successful an all-play-all accelerated and blitz Scheveningen format is judge to create liking arsenic a guideline to what whitethorn hap erstwhile nan 200-nation classical Olympiad takes spot successful Samarkand, Uzbekistan betwixt 15-27 September. Full specifications of nan forthcoming lucifer are here.
The 2 teams successful Miami will some beryllium astatine virtually afloat strength. USA will section nan world Nos 2 and 3, Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, positive nan world No 7, Wesley So, and world Nos 17 and 22, Leinier Domínguez and Levon Aronian. Only nan world No 19, Hans Niemann, mightiness person made it stronger.
Uzbekistan will see nan world Nos 4 and 6, Javokhir Sindarov and Nodirbek Abdusattorov, nan world No 39, Nodirbek Yakubboev, nan world No 62, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, and nan world No 132, Mukhiddin Madaminov.
The vastly knowledgeable US team, winners of six Olympiad golden medals, person an mean property of 38, while their opponents timepiece successful astatine conscionable 21.
How do England’s champion grandmasters compare? Not very well, it seems. In February England’s No 5, Luke McShane, played a six-game lucifer pinch Madaminov and mislaid 1.5-4.5, without winning a game.
There is simply a further intent for nan lucifer format. The venue astatine Faena Miami Beach offers accommodation for streaming, hospitality and unrecorded commentary which will heighten nan spectator experience.
The Miami lucifer is sponsored by WR Chess’s Wadim Rosenstein arsenic portion of his run to go nan caller president of Fide. Voting will return spot during nan Olympiad astatine nan Fide wide assembly successful Samarkand, wherever Rosenstein’s rivals will beryllium nan incumbent president, Russia’s Arkady Dvorkovich, and Rosenstein’s chap German multi-millionaire Jan Henric Buettner, whose moving mate will beryllium England’s world director, Malcolm Pein.
The Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters, an elite classical GM azygous information all-play-all, began connected Thursday greeting successful Chennai, India, Seven of nan 8 competitors are rated supra Fide 2700. Abdusattorov is cutting it fine, pinch only 1 time betwixt Chennai and Miami.
Round 1 results: Abdusattorov 0.5 Niemann, Arjun Erigaisi (India) 0.5 Dmitry Andreikin (Fide/Russia), Pranesh Munirethinam (India) 0-1 Alireza Firouzja (France), Gukesh Dommaraju (India) 0.5 Nihal Sarin (India). Games are viewable on lichess starting astatine 10am BST.
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Supratit Banerjee precocious person to a record-breaking world maestro title astatine property 12 erstwhile nan Sutton Grammar pupil achieved his 2nd IM norm past week astatine an invitational arena successful Sheffield. Banerjee now needs conscionable 1 much IM norm, positive a 2400+ published rating, for which he is close, to go 1 of nan world’s youngest IMs. He is already nan world’s highest rated subordinate calved successful 2014.
Banerjee shared first prize pinch Sam Chow of Australia connected 6.5/9 and won a superb attacking game successful information eight, ending pinch a queen sacrifice for checkmate against Lithuanian IM Gediminas Sarakauskas.
In transatlantic prodigy matches played connected a elephantine surface connected Sunday astatine ChessFest successful Trafalgar Square, Banerjee mislaid 0.5-1.5 to Argentina’s Faustino Oro, 12, nan world’s youngest grandmaster, while England’s 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan defeated USA’s Megan Paragua, 13, by nan aforesaid 1.5-0.5 score.
Banerjee will dream to proceed his basking streak and wrap up nan IM title this play erstwhile he competes successful nan Wood Green Invitational, organised astatine Stafford by IM Loz Cooper, Wood Green’s squad manager.
This is simply a importantly stronger arena than Sheffield, pinch nan apical 2 seeds nan nine-time British champion Michael Adams and England’s youngest grandmaster, Shreyas Royal, positive respective different highly classed players competing for GM and IM norms. Banerjee will do very good to make a positive people successful this elite company.
You tin travel nan 12-year-old’s run for an English property grounds crippled by crippled here.
4033: 1 Ng5! Bxg5 2 Qe8+! Rxe8 3 Rxe8+ Kf7 4 Rf8 mate.
