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7th Sharjah Masters: Daneshvar Wins on Tiebreaks
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The Axiom System - Part 4: Justification in Chess
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Ding Liren defeats Kosteniuk with the English
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Tournament winners
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More »≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 263 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 296 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 394 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 172 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 199 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 375 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 59 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 28 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m |
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Congratulations to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for winning the Streamers Battle May '24! Congrats also to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club finishing 4th. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,915 registered players!
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We now have Stockfish 16.1 (70MB net) available on web! Enable it in the engine settings menu. Stockfish 16 is also available with a smaller 7MB net, and all our engines are computing faster than before, thanks to a recent update!
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Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the Titled Arena May 2024, just 2 points ahead of runner-up GM Ediz Gürel, who was on a 6-game winning streak! 3rd place went to GM Matthias Blübaum.
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This month's 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours! You'll have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
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The Sharjah Masters was our first stream with live player camera feeds! Many thanks to our stream host Irene Sukandar, @TotalNoob69 for developing a necessary browser extension tool on short notice and to the whole team who made this stream possible!
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GM Bardiya Daneshvar is the close winner of the Sharjah Masters on tiebreak criteria - tied with GMs Volodar Murzin, Sam Shankland and Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Congratulations to our successful Lichess online qualifier IM Mahdi Gholami Orimi for achieving his final GM norm and a live rating of 2500!
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Watch the final round of the Sharjah Masters now on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar! GMs Bardiya Daneshvar, Volodar Murzin and Sam Shankland share the lead and 7 other players, including top seeded GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo, are still in contention for 1st place.