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The Week in Chess 1603 of 28th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 45 stories and 8435 games.
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The Week in Chess 1602 of 21st June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 42 stories and 8826 games.
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The Week in Chess 1601 of 14th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 45 stories and 8513 games.
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Hot weather has never been conducive to producing TWIC. Today maybe has been a bit better than the last few days but relieved to get finished.
The Week in Chess 1600 of 7th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 49 stories and 8891 games.
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Another milestone but things are tough right now, please consider donating to support the work. Also starting to look for part time work myself.
The Week in Chess 1599 of 30th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 32 stories and 7300 games.
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The Week in Chess 1598 of 23rd June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 41 stories and 8080 games.
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There was a thumping 9.5-3.5 win for Anish Giri over Hans Niemann in their rerematch on June 18th (they had a rematch on June 4th and an original match last year) on endgame.ai . I extracted the games for viewing and download.
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The Week in Chess 1597 of 16th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 36 stories theweekinchess.com/html/twic159... and 11224 games. theweekinchess.com
16.06.2025 22:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Week in Chess 1596 of 9th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 31 stories theweekinchess.com/html/twic159... and 5961 games. theweekinchess.com
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Startled reactions at the end of the end of the match when Niemann wandered into checkmate. Niemann 60 seconds left, Giri 10.
Giri 9.5-8.5 Hans Niemann blitz match on endgame.ai
Giri looked dead and buried but won the last four games. In the final game he was down to the increment when Niemann had 90 seconds. That should have been a losing position on the clock. Games and results:
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Carlsen has a choice. Get paid good money to play exhibition chess, with not much on the line, or play with more at stake and be an elite sportsman. The potential for pain is a part of this. Nakamura's mild reaction to resigning a won position vs Carlsen in the Chess.com classic was very telling.
02.06.2025 23:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Week in Chess 1595 of 2nd June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 47 stories theweekinchess.com/html/twic159... and 9599 games. theweekinchess.com
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Quote credits to Sverre Krogh Sundbø for TV2
After making a post about the Gukesh vs Carlsen game from the Norway Chess tournament I wondered if "turn around" was hyphenated. Actually it's one word, turnaround, I didn't know that.
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Gukesh and Carlsen in time trouble at the end of their game. Photo © Norway Chess.
Gukesh beats Carlsen for the first time in classical chess after a great turnaround in fortunes.
Norway Chess: Gukesh beats Carlsen from a lost position leaving the Norwegian pounding the table. American Continental: Shankland wins. Anand 2-0 Faustino Oro.
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Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen during Round 5. Photo © Norway Chess
Magnus continues to lead the Norway Chess tournament after five rounds.
Caruana pressured Carlsen during the classical game but lost the Armageddon. Cambridge International: Adams wins on tie-break from Brandon Clarke after both score 7/9.
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Carlsen in action against Erigaisi. Photo © Norway Chess.
Chess on Friday 30th May 2025
Norway Chess: Carlsen leads after defeating Erigaisi in Round 4. Cambridge: Adams leads after 7 rounds. Stepan Avagyan Memorial: All games drawn in Round 2.
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Gukesh won in Round 3 against Nakamura.
Chess on Thursday 29th May 2025
Caruana leads in Norway after 3 rounds, Niemann wins the rematch blitz match against Dubov. Stepan Avagyan Mem starts with Praggnanandhaa as top seed.
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Niemann talking about winning the match.
The second Hans Moke Niemann match against Daniil Dubov took place in the Raketa Creative Studio in Moscow, 27th to 28th May 2025. Niemann won 10.5-9.5 in overtime. I managed to extract the games into a PGN file for download.
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The Week in Chess 1594 of 26th May 2025 by Mark Crowther. 40 stories theweekinchess.com/html/twic159... and 7669 games. theweekinchess.com
Free to download games from last week in ChessBase and PGN zipped formats, plus an accompanying html of documentation.
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Winner Javokhir Sindarov waiting for his final round opponent Vasyl Ivanchuk to move. Photo Mikael Svensson. https://www.tepesigemanchess.com/photos/
Chess on Monday 26th May 2025
Norway Chess: Carlsen defeats Gukesh in round 1. 30th Sigeman & Co: Sindarov wins with 4.5/7 after drawing with Ivanchuk. Dubov beats Matlakov 3.5-2.5 in a match held in Moscow.
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The leader Javokhir Sindarov drew with Nils Grandelius in round 6. Photo Mikael Svensson.
Chess on Sunday 25th May 2025
30th Sigeman & Co: Sindarov leads with 4/6, Ivanchuk loses on time again. Dubov leads Matlakov 2.5-1.5 in Moscow. Anish Giri wins Sharjah Masters. Shogdzhiev is the youngest ever IM. Norway Chess starts Monday with Carlsen-Gukesh.
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