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Yangyi Yu – Vladimir Kramnik is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Maksim Chigaev – Grigoriy Oparin is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Praggnanandhaa – Tuan Minh Le is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Vincent Keymer – Georg Meier is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Denis Lazavik – Daniil Dubov is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Aleksey Dreev is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament.

Raunak Sadhwani – Erigaisi Arjun is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Nodirbek Abdusattorov – Anish Giri is a 1/16 match from the Chessable Masters 2023. The 2nd event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.

Ju Wenjun – Lei Tingjie is the World Women Chess Championship 2023 final. Lei Tingjie defeated 3,5-0,5 Tan Zhongyi in the Women Candidates match and is going to challenge Ju Wenjun for the World Champion title.

The 2023 Chinese Women finals were played March 30 – April 2 in Shenzhen, China. The event was a 16 player tournament with Yifan Hou, Guo Qi, Ju Wenjun, Zhao Shengxin, Huang Qian, Zhao Xue, Xiao Yiyi, etc. The event consisted of preliminary rounds, quarter final, semi final and final.

Ju Wenjun defeated Yifan Hou 2,5-1,5 in the final to win the gold medal. In the semi final Yifan Hou won against Zhao Shengxin 3,0-1,0, while Ju Wenjun was victorious against Guo Qi with the same score.