Hosted by JJ · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 16 episodes
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JJ hosts Today in Chess, a leisure show with 16 episodes published.
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Today, the 15th April 2026 was the final round number 14 of 14 of the 2026 Cand
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Today, the 14th April 2026 was the penultimate round - 13 of 14 of the 2026 Can
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Today, the 12th April 2026 was round 12 of 14 of the 2026Candidates tournament
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Candidates Round 11 - 11th April 2026 Giri v Esipenko Nakamura v Wei Yi Caruana
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Candidates Round 10 - 9th April 2026 Esipenko v Bluebaum DRAW Wei Yi v Caruana
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Candidates Round 9 - 8th April 2026 Nakamura v Esipenko DRAW Pragg v Wei Yi DRAW
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Candidates Round 8 - 7th April 2026 Esipenko v Sindarov – draw Wei Yi vs Bluebau
Sindarov v Giri - draw Pragg v Caruana - draw Bluebaum v Nakamura - draw Esipenko v Wei Yi - win for Wei Yi Standings after round 7: Sindarov 6 Caruana 4.5 Giri 3.5 Pragg 3.5 Wei Yi 3 BBluebaum 3 Nakamura 2.5 Esipenko 2
Another amazing day for Sindarov. He beat Wei Yi and everyone else drew. He now has 5.5/6, 2nd place is Fabiano Caruana with 4/6. Is It over? Are we already seeing the next world champion? Maybe....
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Round 5 - 3rd April 2026. Pragg v Esipenko. Draw. Caruana v Bluebaum. Win Caruan
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Esipenko v Giri – win for Giri Wei Yi vs Nakamura - draw Sindarov vs Caruana – w
This… is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Bluebaum vs Esipenko draw Prag vs Sindarov – win for Sindarov Caruana vs Wei Yi
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Esipenko v Nakamura – draw. Giri vs Caruana – draw. Wei Yi vs Pragg – draw. Sind
This…is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Caruana vs Hikaru – Caruana wins! Pragg vs Giri – Pragg wins! Bluebaum vs Wei Yi
This is Today in Chess. Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions. Today we’re diving into one of the most important—and most intense—events in com
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