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Magnus Carlsen won the Speed Chess Championship after defeating convincingly Alireza Firouzja in the final with total score 23,5:7,5. In the different segments Carlsen won 6:3 (5 min + 1 sec), 8:2 (3 min + 1 sec), and 9,5:2,5 (1 min + 1 sec).

After the match Firouzja congratulated Carlsen on the win and said, “Congrats Magnus Carlsen. See you in New York.” to which the Norwegian agreed with a shake hand emoji.

Team Germany is 8th seeded in the open section of the Chess Olympiad. Board 1 is for Vincent Keymer and his teammates are Dmitrij Kollars, Matthias Bluebaum, Frederik Svane, Alexander Donchenko. The team is now on the way to Budapest and Frederik Svane shared a photo from the airport.

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GM Peter Svidler, GM Cristian Chirila, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich are the FIDE commentators of the official broadcast of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest.

Video commentary and live analysis by Svidler, Chirila, and Karlovich will be available starting round 1 of the Olympiad. The most viewed live coverage on Youtube by FIDE remains the World Championship ’22 game 6 with 391K views, while the replay of Carlsen-Dubov ’19 blitz has collected 4,9M.

More live video commentary is expected by Nakamura, GothamChess, Anna Cramling, and various chess influencers

The open section of the Chess Olympiad 2024 is live daily on Chessdom.com with live games computer analysis, extensive coverage of the top matches, live video commentary, and more.

The women section of the Chess Olympiad 2024 is live daily on Chessdom.com with live games computer analysis, extensive coverage of the top matches, live video commentary, and more.

Festival Internazionale di Scacchii Grand Hotel Adriatico is going to take place 9-15 September in Italy. The event is a 9 round Swiss and players are divided into four different groups. The top group of Grand Hotel Adriatico Chess Festival is Open A with Daniel Alsina Leal, Arkadij Rotstein, Mark Van Der Werf, Valerio Carnicelli, Blazimir Kovacevic, Konstantin Kavutskiy, Zhiulien Oleksii Kalosha, Stefan Djuric, Corentin Schmuck, etc. Scroll down for the full participants list.

Magnus Carlsen will play Alireza Firouzja in the Speed Chess final. Firouzja defeated Hikaru Nakamura 16-11. Magnus Carlsen dominated the long awaited match against Hans Niemann, winning the encounter 17.5-12.5.

Carlsen – Firouzja with live broadcast will start at 18:00 CET.

More live: Top Chess Engine Championship Swiss 7

After defeating Niemann in the Speed Chess Championship, Hikaru Nakamura announced that he will be playing a match against Faustino Oro. The match Nakamura – Faustino Oro is expected to be in an e-sports format, as part of Nakamura’s traditional live broadcast.