World number one Magnus Carlsen continued his monstrous streak in faster-paced chess events, completing a flawless upper bracket run in impressive fashion against some of the best players of the world to win the Aimchess Rapid 2023 tournament.
The Champions Chess Tour, a longstanding series of online tournaments beginning as the sole high-level competitive outlet during the pandemic, has changed a lot over the years. However, one factor has been common in all versions of the Tour: Magnus Carlsen’s dominance. Indeed, the competition started out as the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour, and now three years later, it is Chess.com’s flagship online event—and the Norwegian is showing no signs of slowing down no matter the format, the organizers, or the calendar year.