GM Vidit Gujrathi defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura for the second time, GM Tan Zhongyi jumped back into the lead of the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament, and GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh Dommaraju continue to lead the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament after round nine. GM Alireza Firouzja outplayed Nepomniachtchi but the game ended in a draw, and Tan Zhongyi defeated GM-elect Vaishali Rameshbabu to regain the pole position. Round 10 will be on Monday, April 15, with Nepomniachtchi facing Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa playing against Vidit.
A federal judge has dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. Niemann had claimed slander, libel, unlawful group boycott under the Sherman Act, tortious interference with contract and business expectancies, and civil conspiracy. The judge dismissed federal claims and declined to hear state claims, but left the door open for the case to be re-filed in a state court. The lawsuit was part of a big chess cheating scandal in the fall of last year.
Indian chess grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh beat Uzbekistani grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov in an armageddon game at the Norway Chess tournament, after the classical portion of the match ended in a draw. Gukesh, who beat world No.1 Magnus Carlsen on his 17th birthday last week, rises to fourth in the standings. American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura regained the world No. 2 spot for the first time since 2015 with a victory over Aryan Tari.
Indian chess grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh beat Uzbekistani grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov in an armageddon game at the Norway Chess tournament, after the classical portion of the match ended in a draw. Gukesh, who recently beat world No.1 Magnus Carlsen, rises to fourth in the standings, while Abdusattorov slips to eighth. American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura regained the world No. 2 spot for the first time since 2015 with a victory over Aryan Tari.
Magnus Carlsen lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the losers final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 after a dramatic slip of his mouse, in what is his last tournament as the world champion. Nakamura celebrated with a fist-bump while Carlsen could be seen exclaiming and grimacing in frustration. Carlsen exits his final tournament as world champion with $15,000.
