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- Fabiano Caruana now leads the way in the betting market for 2025 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
- Caruana has won the tournament once before back in 2020
- World chess number one Magnus Carlsen quit tournament last month after wearing jeans
Fabiano Caruana now leads the way in the betting market for 2025 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
Bookies are now giving odds on the upcoming Tata Steel Chess Tournament which kicks off this weekend with the first round of the Masters & Challengers series kicking off on Saturday.
American Chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana leads the way in the betting odds to win the event with bookmakers installing him as the 5/2 favourite.
Reigning champion Wei Yi is 5/1 to win the event for the second year in-a-row and sits in third place in the market behind Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi.
William Hill's latest odds suggest an implied probability of 28.6% of Caruana winning the tournament this year, five years on from his last win in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
| Fabiano Caruana | 5/2 | 28.6% |
| Arjun Erigaisi | 7/2 | 22.2% |
| Wei Yi | 5/1 | 16.7% |
| Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 11/2 | 15.4% |
| Anish Giri | 7/1 | 12.5% |
What the expert says...
Caruana has won the tournament once before back in 2020
Chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana has previously won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament back in 2025 with the American finishing ahead of Magnus Carlsen in the event.
Five years on and he's looking to get a massive win under his belt again here and the betting odds believe he has every chance of doing so.
Since that win we've seen different winners each year with Jordan van Foreest winning in 2021, Carlsen in 2022, Anish Giri in 2023 and Wei Yi in 2024.
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World chess number one Magnus Carlsen quit tournament last month after wearing jeans
The biggest story in the past month of Chess saw the World chess number one Magnus Carlsen pull out of FIDE's World Rapid Championships in New York.
Carlsen was told by FIDE, Chess's main governing body, that he'd have to change his jeans to smarter pants in order to compete in their tournament in which he refused to do.
The Norwegian number one told Chess's Take Take Take, "They can enforce their rules. That’s fine by me. My response is, Fine, then I’m out, fuck you."
