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The top four players, Vladimir Fedoseev, Denis Lazavik, Javokhir Sindarov and Olexandr Bortnyk advanced to the 16-player knockout stage, held on January 7 and 8. [14] Fedoseev beat Sindarov in the final in an armageddon game, after a 2-2 tie, and qualified for the Grand Slam. [15] Following Viswanathan Anand's withdrawal, Sindarov also ...
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura [2] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy , he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A chess prodigy , Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category.
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.
In December 2020, he made it to the finals round of the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship. [1]In September 2022, he finished second in the late Titled Tuesday tournament.
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...
Kasparov was world number one on the official list 52 times over a period of 22 years, and 31 times successively over nearly a decade from July 1996 to January 2006; he was number one 3 times successively over 1.5 years, then 16 times successively over 8 years, then twice successively for one year, and then finally 31 times over 9 years and 9 ...
The following day, Nakamura confirmed in an interview with Tokyo Sports that he would be leaving NJPW at the end of the month and signing with WWE. [69] Styles officially made his WWE debut on January 24, 2016, at the Royal Rumble. [70] Nakamura wrestled his final NJPW match on January 30, [71] making his NXT debut two months later on April 1. [72]