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The WR Chess Masters super-tournament will take place from 16-25 February in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event is played as a 10-player round-robin with Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Gukesh D, Vincent Keymer, Praggnanandhaa and Andrey Esipenko in the field.

Showdown with Joker: After eight rounds of the WR Chess Masters, the field is set for an exciting final round, in which the two leaders on equal points, Gukesh and Levon Aronian, meet. Half a point behind them lurks Ian Nepomniachtchi, who can still catch up in the event of a draw between the two. To do so, however, he’ll have to beat Vincent Keymer, who is in increasingly good form. Keymer defeated Wesley So in the eighth round. With this loss, the previously undefeated US grandmaster was eliminated early from the fight for the first prize.

The 1000GM Los Angeles IM 2 Norm 2023 takes place February 22-26, 2023, in Los Angeles, United States. The time control is 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting on move one. The format is a 12-player Schiller System with participation of Fidel Corrales Jimenez, Jacek Stopa, Raffi Ghazaryan, Ruiyang Yan, Alexandre Kretchetov, Michael Casella, Tamas Petenyi, Noah Ward, David Gasparyan, David Berczes, Richard Yi and Julian Proleiko.

The 1000GM Los Angeles IM 1 Norm 2023 takes place February 22-26, 2023, in Los Angeles, United States. The time control is 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting on move one. The format is a 12-player Schiller System with participation of Gabor Nagy, Harshit Raja, Andy Lin, David Berczes, Julian Proleiko, FIDhaan Mahajan, Thalia Cervantes Landeiro, Joshua Ad Avila Rodriguez, Nikash Vemparala, Tamas Petenyi, Shelev Oberoi and Richard Yi.

The 1000GM Los Angeles GM Norm 2023 takes place February 22-26, 2023, in Los Angeles, United States. The time control is 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting on move one. The format is a 12-player Schiller System with participation of Arman Mikaelyan, Josiah Stearman, Justin Wang, Robby Kevlishvili, Mark Heimann, Joseph Levine, Luka Budisavljevic, Konstantin Kavutskiy, Robert Shlyakhtenko, Carlos Sandoval Mercado, Sung Ho Yim and Ryo Chen.

In yesterday’s round-seven game against Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian made a wrong threefold repetition claim. At the 20th move, the players started repeating moves, but Aronian called an arbiter to claim a draw too early. The position was repeated only twice. While Nepo moved away from the board, the arbiter ordered the game to continue.

The Romanian National Chess Championship 2023 is currently ongoing in Sebes. The Romanian Chess Federation informed about the cheating case as one player got caught cheating with the smartphone hidden in the restroom. Paul-Stelian Mihalache was eliminated from the tournament and didn’t challenge the decision of the Chief Arbiter and the Tournament director.

The WR Chess Masters super-tournament will take place from 16-25 February in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event is played as a 10-player round-robin with Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Gukesh D, Vincent Keymer, Praggnanandhaa and Andrey Esipenko in the field.

After Hans Niemann defeated the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022, Carlsen decided to withdraw from the tournament, accusing Hans Niemann of cheating “more and more recently than he has publicly admitted”.<

Gukesh has caught up with Levon Aronian. After a Black win over Andrey Esipenko in the seventh round of the WR Chess Masters, the youngest competitor now shares the top spot with the oldest on 4.5 points. The two will meet in the ninth and final round, potentially a showdown for the tournament title.