Some Chess Today: The Pepe Cuenca Invitational
Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 4:20PM
Dennis Monokroussos in David Anton, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Leinier Dominguez, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev

In anticipation of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, which starts this coming Saturday, Chess24 is first holding the Pepe Cuenca Invitational, which started today. (Pepe Cuenca is a Spanish GM and their main Spanish-language commentator. A bit more of him later today, I think.)

Today two matches took place, between Teimour Radjabov and David Anton, and between Vladislav Artemiev and Leinier Dominguez. (Name orders randomized - no spoilers here.) There will be two matches tomorrow, between Peter Svidler and Santosh Vidit, and between Pentala Harikrishna and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Here are today's matches, with live commentary by Svidler himself and Jan Gustafsson:

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