Congratulations to the frontrunners of the King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2019! 👏

Rapid Open: Carlsen, Firouzja, Nakamura
Blitz Open: Carlsen, Nakamura, Kramnik
Rapid Women: Koneru, Lei Tingjie, Atalik
Blitz Women: Lagno, Anna Muzychuk, Tan Zhongyi

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World Rapid Open 2019

World Blitz Open 2019

World Blitz TB 2019

World Rapid Women 2019

World Rapid Women TB 2019

Kateryna Lagno was also women's world champion in rapid chess in 2014 and in blitz chess in 2010, 2018 and 2019.

World Blitz Women 2019

"There are over 600 million people around the world who enjoy the beautiful game that we know as chess," is the first line in this article. Yet, comically, a link given in that sentence leads to a piece which debunks that very claim. https://bit.ly/2SGZKsS

Vote: Endgame of the Year

https://en.chessbase.com/post/best-endgame-of-the-year-2019

US Women's Champion Jennifer Yu also visited to inspire the kids, sign copies of Chess Life for Kids and host a Q+A. It was a great week for her. She had just received early admission to Harvard!

We'll have some new mags for her to sign soon as she's now on another cover:

Carlsen's 2019:
✔️ 8 Major Tournament Wins
✔️ 2 World Championship Titles
✔️ World #1 in classical, blitz & rapid
✔️ World Champion in classical, blitz & rapid for the 2nd time
✔️ Extending undefested streak to 107 games
✔️ Highest ever overall rating performance

Game of the Day!!

Narciso Dublan, Marc - Bernadskiy, Vitaliy

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Lorca Open 2019 round 07

18...Nxf3+!!, 19...Nxe4!, 22...Rxc3!, 24...Rxe4!, 25...Qxg2+!! 😍

Happy New Year 2020! 🥂🌟🎉

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Fjoruza vs Nakamura WCC 2019

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They just can't stop! Hikaru Nakamura and Alireza Firouzja played a friendly blitz game while waiting for the start of the closing ceremony of #rapidblitz in Moscow. It was a draw.