World Champion Magnus Carlsen will play his new arch-rival
16-year-old Alireza Firouzja in the Banter Blitz Cup final after Alireza beat
S.L. Narayanan 9:6 in by far his toughest match of the event to date. The
semi-final threatened to be a walkover like…

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The world champion reached the Banter Blitz final with a Bobby Fischer-style 9-0 victory, while the 16-year-old rising star defeated India’s Srinath Narayanan 9-6 in Friday evening’s second semi-final

Back in 1999, Peter Leko confirmed his status as a serious contender for the World Championship title by winning the 27th edition of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, ahead of 'Mr. Dortmund' himself, Vladimir Kramnik. Leko was only 19, and three years…

Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Sjugirov, Sanan - Carlsen, Magnus, chess24.com 2020.