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Checkmate Daily retweeted
If you think chess is complex, you should try to figure out this event's scoring system! But as long as the games are exciting, it's fine. Can't be worse than Olympiad tiebreaks! 🤯
Day 1 of the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown is in the books!
Hikaru Nakamura leads with 4/6 points, followed closely by Javokhir Sindarov with 3.5. Fabiano Caruana sits on 2.5, while Praggnanandhaa has 2.
Hikaru also leads the bonus prize standings with $2,000, while the other three grandmasters have each earned $1,000 so far.
But things are about to get even more intense! Day 2 brings double points AND double bonus money, with every win now worth $2,000! The standings and prize money could change quickly.
Tune in tomorrow at noon CT for more Clutch Chess Champions Showdown action!
Mandar Pradip Lad perfect at 9th Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Rating Open 2026
Mandar wins this event for the fourth consecutive year with a 100% score
Top 3
🥇IM Mandar Pradip Lad 9/9
🥈Devesh Anand Naik 8/9
🥉Abhishek Patil 7.5/9
📷FA Tanishq Kavlekar / Quepem Taluka Chess Association
#Goa #India
ALT Mandar Pradip Lad perfect at 9th Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Rating Open 2026
Checkmate Daily retweeted
Pleasure to finally speak with @GMJuditPolgar in person! I told her I started sacrificing 2 pieces in the Najdorf thanks to her and she seemed very pleased 🤣
Chess legend Ulf Andersson to play in Stockholm invitational celebrating his 75th birthday
📷Official site
#Stockholm #Sweden
ALT Chess legend Ulf Andersson to play in Stockholm invitational celebrating his 75th birthday
Checkmate Daily retweeted
A great photo by @JuanSeb46309375: Peter Leko and Miguel Najdorf, together in Argentina (1994).
Sindarov, Nakamura, Praggnanandhaa and Caruana set to clash at Clutch Chess Champions Showdown 2026
This will be Sindarov's last event before the World Championship Match next month against @DGukesh
📷Lennart Ootes/@STLChessClub
#ClutchChess #USA #India
ALT Sindarov, Nakamura, Praggnanandhaa and Caruana set to clash at Clutch Chess Champions Showdown 2026
Abhimanyu Puranik awesome at 1st Saakar Foundation Rapid Rating Open 2026
Top 3
🥇GM Abhimanyu Puranik 8/9
🥈IM Akshay Borgaonkar 7.5/9
🥉FM Kaivalya Sandip Nagare 7.5/9
📷IA Rajendra Shidore
#Pune #Maharashtra
ALT Abhimanyu Puranik awesome at 1st Saakar Foundation Rapid Rating Open 2026
Ojasva Singh wins 1st Kota Rapid Rating Open 2026
Top 3
🥇FM Ojasva Singh 8/9
🥈Homil Madaan 8/9
🥉Mrityunjay Kumar 7.5/9
#Kota #Rajasthan
ALT Ojasva Singh wins 1st Kota Rapid Rating Open 2026
Checkmate Daily retweeted
Something new is coming to your chess training♟️👀
A new way to visualise, learn, and think about the game. Ready to see chess differently?
Be updated- chessenrich.com
#chess #chessenrich #trainingmode #new #chessplayer
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♟️💜 SPONSORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT!
We’re thrilled and delighted to welcome Jane Street as a sponsor!
Investing in the next generation of female talent by sponsoring our next University Girls Chess Tournament! 💜
Checkmate Daily retweeted
👏👏🇺🇦 The Great Vassily is now Vasyl, but still and always The Great! Congrats to the man who was once a leader of the young new generation of my challengers! 😭😭
Two legends of the game!
Vasyl Ivanchuk was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, with former World Champion Garry Kasparov attending the ceremony to personally congratulate him on this well-deserved honor!
Congratulations, Vasyl!🎊🎊
#GarryKasparov #vasylivanchuk
#chess
Checkmate Daily retweeted
It was nice to see again Bodhana in Budapest at the JP Chess Foundation, two years after our last meeting. Wishing her good luck breaking many more of my records! 🙂❤💪
#ChessConnectsUs #dedication #hardwork #lovechess
