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Chess: Sindarov, 20, takes early 1-point lead as Uzbek star stuns Candidates field

The Uzbek grandmaster has scored 3.5/4, including an impressive victory against the world No 3 and Candidates favourite, Fabiano Caruana

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Chess: British players win Isle of Wight Masters as Scots achieve rare double

GM Matthew Wadsworth won in Ryde on tiebreak, Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first, while in Graz Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title

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Chess: Aronian takes big top prize in Las Vegas as Niemann celebrates Carlsen’s downfall

World No 1 Carlsen settled for third as Aronian took the $200,000 prize in the Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Grand Slam

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Chess: Tan Zhongyi takes shock lead over Ju Wenjun in Women’s World Championship

Tan leads 1.5-0.5 in the first-to-6.5 series following Ju’s costly endgame blunder in game two

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Magnus Carlsen makes cameo in BBC Two’s Chess Masters as drop in viewers slows

The world No 1 made a surprise video appearance in Monday’s episode as viewer numbers again dropped, but more slowly

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Hastings Masters guards chess tradition and unveils a new 16-year-old star

China’s Xue Haowen began the event without any Fide titles and ended it as a grandmaster, unbeaten on 7/9 and breaking Judit Polgar’s record as the youngest winner

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Chess: Gawain Jones wins London Classic amid recovery from tragedy

British champion completed a remarkable treble a year after the death of his wife Sue Maroroa Jones

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UK Blitz chess final pits grandmasters against a golden generation

Juniors make up nearly half the field, including a nine-year-old top seed, while in Kolkata Magnus Carlsen surged to victory in the Tata Steel Rapid

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Chess: Carlsen loses in 23 moves but beats Ding and wins Titled Tuesday

The world No 1 arrived at the World Team Rapid and Blitz jetlagged and lost to Richard Rapport but then beat the world champion before scoring 11/11 in the weekly event

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Chess: Yagiz Erdogmus, 13, on the verge of 2600 and closing on world age record

The Turkish teen is poised to achieve the landmark rating at September’s 193-nation chess Olympiad in Budapest

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Chess: Jones and Mirzoeva win English championships as teenagers impress

Gawain Jones won the English Open after a playoff with Michael Adams while the former Russian Elmira Mirzoeva is the women’s champion

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Fast-rising Lu and Lee, both 14, could provide Fischer v Spassky-style rivalry

Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee defeated the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis

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Richest chess tour announced for 2025 as freestyle wins global appeal

Freestyle Chess (also known as Fischer Random and Chess 960) has announced a $1m tournament in each of five continents

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Chess: sickly Carlsen wins World Cup in Baku by beating Praggnanandhaa

Norway’s world No 1 Magnus Carlsen won the World Cup after playing cautiously in the first two games due to food poisoning

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