What an opening from the World Champion! Perfectly prepared he went into the game against Daniel Fridman in the NC World Masters. He took a close look at the Bochum player's opening game against Michael Adams and improved with 6.Ke2.

Out of 6 leaders only one is left after the 5th round: The youngest participant of the leading group Artem Dyachuk (photo) won his black game and now leads the field.

The new head of the Dortmund Congress Tim Renzing opened the third round in the NC World Masters of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2022 on Wednesday, which was a good omen for the white player Viswanathan Anand. 

With a day's delay due to the change in the field of participants, defending champion Vishy Anand started today in the NC World Masters 2022. With Black he played against yesterday's day winner Michael Adams.