Lei lost to Vaishali, who has now won 4 games in a row, meaning that sole leader Tan only needs a draw in tomorrow's final round to win the 2024 Women's Candidates!
Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura drew by repetition in Round 13 of the Candidates. If Gukesh draws with Firouzja and Caruana wins against Praggnanandhaa in their ongoing games, we will have a 4-way tie going into the final round tomorrow!
Join us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk now for Round 13 of the #FIDECandidates! Get ready for a pivotal game in the three-way tied Open between leaders Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura & Tan vs Goryachkina in the Women's section among others.
Tunde Onakoya: Nigerian attempts to break chess marathon record
“Under the beaming lights of New York's iconic Times Square, #Nigeria’s chess master Tunde Onakoya is attempting an ambitious challenge to break the record for the longest chess marathon.
He aims to play for 58 consecutive hours and raise $1m (£805,000) for charity in the process.
The money, he says, will support #chess education for millions of children.”
Sadly I was too busy Thursday to catch up on #candidates and do predictions. Given how badly I was doing probably no big. I did watch some of the open games. Vidit and Fabi premoved a dozen turns and then traded everything. How have these two only played each other OTB ~3 times? #FIDE#chess 🤨
Hikaru Nakamura defeats Alireza Firouzja and, after a brief spell at the top yesterday, is now really in shared 1st place of the 2024 Candidates - at least until the next to last round after tomorrow's rest day!
Nepomniachtchi, the current leader of the 2024 Open Candidates, drew against Praggnanandhaa in Round 12 and remains in the lead - waiting for the results of Nakamura and Gukesh, who can catch up and join 1st place!
Watch Round 12 of the 2024 Candidates with us and our hosts IM Irene Sukandar, IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger! Current Open leader Nepo takes on Pragg and joint runners-up Nakamura and Gukesh play Firouzja and Abasov, respectively.