The Grand Chess Tour moves to Croatia! ♟️Gukesh, Firouzja & Abdusattorov are among the players in action. 📺 July 1-5, 9am ET/15:00 CEST/6:30pm IST.
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GM @NihalSarin won the 2026 #BulletChess Championship, winning 15 consecutive games against defending champion Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final.
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Gukesh:
"99 out of 100 times I would lose. Just a lucky day!"
"First classical win against Magnus, I mean, not the way I wanted it to be, but okay I'll take it."
#NorwayChess
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Gukesh takes down Carlsen again, the Indian World Champion's 5th win in a row in Zagreb! 🤯
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Ding: "I think I played my best tournament of the year. I could be better, but considering yesterday's lucky survival it's a fair result to lose in the end. I have no regrets!"
#DingGukesh
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Stunning emotions as Gukesh cries after winning the World Championship title!
#DingGukesh
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Gukesh turns it all around and WINS his first classical game against Magnus Carlsen!
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#NorwayChess
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When you ask the World no. 1 to give an autograph seconds before he's about to play the World no. 2... and he agrees! ❤️
#RapidBlitz
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Another shocker as @MagnusCarlsen simply resigns on move 2 vs. @HansMokeNiemann!
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#ChessChamps #JuliusBaerGenerationCup
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Hans Niemann blunders mate-in-1 and Ian Nepomniachtchi is in the Semifinals!
#FreestyleChess
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19-year-old Divya Deshmukh is in tears after winning the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup!
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Kasparov as Gukesh beats Carlsen: "A very important day! Now we can question Magnus' domination. It's not just the second loss, it's a very convincing loss!"
#GrandChessTour
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BREAKING NEWS: @MagnusCarlsen, the World Chess Champion since 2013, will NOT defend his title in 2023! See his full explanation why:
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#c24live
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Ding Liren: "I want to go to Turin to see a game of Juventus, my favourite club!"
#NepoDing
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"I said I'll change tomorrow... but they said you have to change now & it became a matter of principle for me so here we are! Honestly I'm too old at this point to care too much. If this is what they want to do I"ll probably set off to somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer"
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Gukesh: "I want to have a very long career and stay at the very, very top!"
He sees another goal ahead: "I want to reach the level of greatness that Magnus has achieved"
#DingGukesh
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Congratulations to 18-year-old 🇮🇳 @DGukesh on becoming the 18th and youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion!
#DingGukesh
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Norwegian media reports that World no. 1 Magnus Carlsen will marry his girlfriend Ella Victoria Malone this weekend! vg.no/sport/i/73QKjw/magnus-…
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The final moments as 18-year-old Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa reached a #FIDEWorldCup final against Magnus Carlsen!
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Gukesh: "It's nice that two losing positions in a row I could win against Magnus!"
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Magnus ran to his board, 2 minutes 30 seconds late, but still went on to win with 30 seconds on his clock! chess24.com/en/watch/live-to…
#c24live #RapidBlitz
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Magnus Carlsen bursts into laughter when he realises he's blundered into a stalemate swindle by Benjamin Bok!
#RapidBlitz
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Gukesh: "If I had to pinpoint a moment where I really felt this could be my moment was probably... after I lost to Firouzja... Even though I just had a painful loss, I was feeling at my absolute best. Maybe this loss gave me so much motivation."
#FIDECandidates
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Congratulations to @rajachess on winning the #AirthingsMasters and booking a place in the @Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in San Francisco in September!
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#c24live #ChessChamps #AirthingsMasters
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"In terms of rivals, there are tiers. The first tier is like no rivals, and then a little bit after that it's Hikaru... He's definitely second after no rivals," says Magnus Carlsen.
#ChessChamps #AICup
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"I don't completely understand what [Gukesh's] concept is here. It seems to me that I just have excellent play."
#NorwayChess
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Congratulations to 17-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov on winning the 2021 World Rapid Championship! He beat Magnus Carlsen in rapid chess and then Ian Nepomniachtchi in a blitz playoff:
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#c24live #RapidBlitz
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Magnus: "Gukesh showed in this tournament he's on track, he's doing fantastic, but he's not ahead of track"
#NorwayChess
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"I should probably buy something for Arjun!" quips the winner of #TataSteelChess!
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Teimour Radjabov had barely shown a hint of emotion during the #AirthingsMasters, but this is what it meant to him to win it!
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#c24live #ChessChamps
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Magnus Carlsen offers a handshake to his absent opponent 😂
#FIDEWorldCup
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"If Magnus plays that move, I leave," says @GmNaroditsky. Magnus plays that move!
#SpeedChess
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Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen on winning a magnificent 7th #NorwayChess title after a stunning final round!
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Mike Klein: "Now that it's been almost 24 hours how do you feel about the match?"
Ding Liren: "I'm still hoping for a tiebreak match today!" 😀
#DingGukesh
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8-time French Champion Etienne Bacrot asks Magnus Carlsen for a selfie before their game! 😀
#FreestyleChess #GrenkeChess
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Hans Niemann: "I am not going to let chesscom, I am not going to let Magnus Carlsen, I'm not going to let Hikaru Nakamura, the 3 arguably biggest entities in chess, simply slander my reputation"
#SinquefieldCup
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"I feel like an idiot."
"It was a bad game at a very unfortunate moment."
- Fabiano Caruana
#FIDECandidates
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Praggnanandhaa borrows a trick from Magnus by delaying his reply to Carlsen's 1.e4!
#FIDEWorldCup
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"I'm very happy that there is someone like Magnus that could beat me like this because, it's weird to say, but it could get a bit depressing if at this age I could win all the games... this motivates me a lot to improve more."
#SpeedChessFinals
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"Niemann has become a good player, a very good player, but thinking that our levels were going to be close was not realistic...I don't think we learned anything particularly new about our respective playing strengths this weekend."
#SpeedChessFinals
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Gukesh over-presses in an equal endgame and loses a piece! Praggnanandhaa wins the #TataSteelChess Masters!
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The world number-two @GMHikaru confirmed to Chess.com that he married WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan. Congratulations!
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GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29.
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Gukesh names his seconds:
Grzegorz Gajewski
Paddy Upton (mental coach)
Radek Wojtaszek
Pentala Harikrishna
Vincent Keymer
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Jan Klimkowski
Vishy Anand (though not officially!)
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Caruana and Nepomniachtchi finally, reluctantly shake hands, and are met with an applause after the game ends.
It's a draw, and Gukesh wins the #FIDECandidates!
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Nakamura on Carlsen: "This is the future for him. The Indians are coming for him. It's going to be one Indian after another, after another, after another, after another—all the disciples of Vishy!"
#QatarMasters2023
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The moment when Magnus Carlsen resigned against Anish Giri in a classical game for the 1st time in 12 years: chess24.com/en/watch/live-to…
#TataSteelChess #c24live
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Magnus Carlsen on Instagram: "As usual, chess tries to sell with nudity!"
#FreestyleChess
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Ding Liren: "Rapport sent me a file with the name 'Strike Back!' and it happened!"
#DingGukesh
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Carlsen on losing to Gukesh: "The dream of playing a really good tournament burst with that game... I wanted a score that reflects the fact I think I'm still significantly better at chess & since I couldn't achieve that, a potential win of the tournament would not mean as much"
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15 years ago 40-year-old Vasyl Ivanchuk announced his retirement from chess after losing to a 16-year-old Wesley So in the 2009 World Cup — now he's beating So in a huge match for the 2024 #ChessOlympiad!
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"Chess is in good hands for the future! I think this generation of players born 1990-94 really have dominated for a long time & finally now with these youngsters born 2003+ we have a generation that's worthy of succeeding us when the time comes & the time could be fairly soon!"
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"Last year I also made a comeback in the 12th game with the white pieces, so I will definitely try!"
#DingGukesh
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Magnus: "Gukesh actually asked me in Germany... what he should do in the Candidates. And I said, I don't have any good advice, I don't know.
I only said that he should not go crazy and he should just look for his chances because other people will go crazy."
#FIDECandidates
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17-year-old 🇮🇳 Gukesh has smashed Kasparov's record as the youngest player to win the Candidates cycle and qualify for a match for the undisputed World Chess Championship title!
#FIDECandidates
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Alireza Firouzja on beating a World Champion for the 1st time: "For sure it's an easier World Champion than Magnus!"
#GrandChessTour #c24live
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Vishy Anand beats World no. 3 Arjun Erigaisi and is on 3/3 in London!
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Gukesh on whether he's more excited now that he's so close to winning:
"I've been eager and excited the same way from the first round... In general, my mental state has been the same."
Try to find a cooler 17-year-old. 😎
#FIDECandidates
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2014: 2nd
2015: 2nd
2018: Joint 1st — lost playoff to Magnus
2019: 2nd
2021: Joint 1st — lost playoff to Jorden
2023: Anish Giri wins #TataSteelChess!
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Firouzja after defeating Nakamura: "He's very impressive. It's a pity I didn't play him when he was like 25, 26, I think it would've been a much greater match, much closer match probably... he's one of the legends, of course."
#SpeedChessFinals
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Praggnanandhaa has exams tomorrow 👨🎓
"I have to be at school around 8:45am, and now it's 2am!"
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#ChessChamps #ChessableMasters
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Almost a decade on, Magnus Carlsen's reign as World Champion ends today!
#NepoDing
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Gukesh: "Since what happened last time—we were so close as the team to win gold—this time I thought no matter what I'm going to do whatever it takes to win the team gold. I did not really think about the individual performance much, I just wanted the team to win!"
#ChessOlympiad
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Mental coach Paddy Upton says he's spoken to Gukesh once a week for the last 6 months, with the plan to have him so ready no contact was needed during the match. He says a big mistake players make is to think they need to do something completely different in their 1st huge event
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Here's 🇮🇳@DGukesh as he arrives home in Chennai after becoming a hero for a nation of 1.4 billion people!
#FIDECandidates
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Magnus Carlsen lifts the #EsportsWorldCup trophy!
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Ding Liren wins Game 1 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, 304 days after he last won a game of classical chess! 🤯
#DingGukesh
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Carlsen & Nakamura play the Immortal Bong Cloud Draw!
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#ChessInSpace #ChessChamps #MagnusInvitational
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Carlsen: "Gukesh hasn’t done anything to indicate that he’s going to do well in such a tournament. I hope for his sake that he can play better, but playing him in this tournament I will approach it as I’m playing one of the presumably weaker players in the tournament."
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18-year-old 🇮🇳Gukesh Dommaraju lifts the Chess World Championship trophy!
#DingGukesh
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Levon Aronian: "If it is necessary for my country for me to be in the army I will do that"
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#c24live
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Congratulations to @FabianoCaruana on becoming the 1st player since Bobby Fischer to win the US Chess Championship 4 times in a row! chess.com/events/2025-us-cha…
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Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen on winning the #GrenkeChess #FreestyleChess Open with a round to spare and a perfect 8/8 score! 🏆🤯
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Gukesh mentioned in the final World Championship press conference that he was no longer sure if he'd play in the World Rapid & Blitz in New York (Dec 26-31) — and now his name has been removed from both the Rapid (below) & Blitz lists!
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The last moments as @MagnusCarlsen wins the 2023 #FIDEWorldCup, "the final feather in his cap"!
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Praggnanandhaa beats Carlsen and takes the sole lead in their group on 3.5/4! chess.com/events/2025-freest…
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Divya Deshmukh: "I think it was fate me getting the grandmaster title this way because before this I didn't even have one norm. Before this tournament I was thinking, where can I get a norm, and now I'm a grandmaster!"
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Magnus went for a walk by the lake after his loss!
#RapidBlitz
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Congratulations to Ding Liren on becoming the 17th World Chess Champion and the 1st Chinese World Champion!
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#NepoDing #c24live
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Arjun, after perhaps the worst tournament of his life, finishes by defeating two leaders back to back in the final two rounds! He inflicts Gukesh's first loss as a world champion!
#TataSteelChess
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A stunning win for @viditchess, who ends Nakamura's 47-game unbeaten streak that had lasted since a loss to Ding in the last #FIDECandidates!
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Peter Svidler: "Let's at least get some things stated live on air. I do not agree with the war my country is waging in Ukraine. I do not believe Ukraine, or Ukrainian people, are my enemies, or anybody's enemies"
#FIDEGrandPrix #c24live
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Ding Liren: "Thanks to my opponent, Ian. He's a great fighter and he fought to the very end!"
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#NepoDing
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Magnus Carlsen: "Nice to show that my retirement only lasted a couple of days!"
#GrandChessTour
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Absolute heartbreak for Gukesh as he'd rescued a draw against Caruana only to blunder at the very end!
#NorwayChess
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Back in India, Divya Deshmukh has been awarded with more than 7 times the $50,000 she won for winning the FIDE Women's World Cup!
🚨BREAKING: Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra felicitated 🇮🇳 GM @DivyaDeshmukh05 with a cash award of ₹3 crores! ($361,000 USD approx)
@MahaChess honored her with ₹11 lacs. ($12,650 USD approx)
📸 @CMOMaharashtra
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"This game is a message to everyone. This entire thing started with me saying chess speaks for itself & I think this game spoke for itself & showed the chess player I am. It also showed I'm not going to back down & I'm going to play my best chess regardless of the pressure"
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Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen on winning the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland #GrandChessTour after posting a stunning 10-game winning streak!
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Magnus advances, Hans is out!
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#RapidBlitz
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Now @MagnusCarlsen reveals his team! @PHChess "the adult in the room", @FressinetL "I wanted someone French & MVL & Bacrot were not available", @GMJanGustafsson "the go-to guy for medium & low-culture references", @jordenvforeest, "the new guy" & ideas man Dubov!
#CarlsenNepo
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Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen of @TeamLiquid on winning the 1st ever Chess #EsportsWorldCup and the $250,000 top prize!
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Vidit blanks Levon's offer of a handshake 😀🙈
#ChessOlympiad
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With Vidit's win over Nepomniachtchi, we have 4 Indians in the quarterfinals of the #FIDEWorldCup Open section, and zero Russians, for the first time ever!
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GM @ArjunErigaisi's latest win is his most important yet, as it looks set to give India its first ever #ChessOlympiad gold! 🥇
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Ding Liren has blundered and Gukesh is going to win the World Championship!
#DingGukesh
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Congratulations to @anishgiri on finally winning his home supertournament #TataSteelChess after finishing 2nd five times, twice after a playoff!
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#c24live
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Gukesh will go into the World Championship match after posting one of the best #ChessOlympiad performances of all time!
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