Caruana vs Aronian Kicks Off 2018 Speed Chess Championship - Chess.com
Get your brackets ready! The 2018 season of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship begins tomorrow with a blockbuster of an opening-round match.
Carlsen Steals Show With Queen Sacrifice As Biel Begins - Chess.com
In the first round of the Biel Chess Festival, Magnus Carlsen stole the show with a long-term positional queen sacrifice vs David Navara. The other winner was ...
Youri Djorkaeff supports football camp for refugee children in Athens - PanARMENIAN.Net
The summer football program supported by legendary player Youri Djorkaeff targets unaccompanied children, aged 12-17.
Biel R1: Carlsen squeezes, Mamedyarov demolishes - chess24
Two very different wins left Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Magnus Carlsen as co-leaders of the 2018 Accentus Biel GM Tournament after the first round. ...
Biel R2: Vintage Magnus wins again - chess24
It was a great day of chess in Biel. All three games included noteworthy highlights and two of them finished with decisive results. Magnus Carlsen ...
Nepomniachtchi Crushes Meier To Win 1st Dortmund Title - Chess.com
It was three times a charm for Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won his first Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund at the third attempt. He secured victory quickly ...
Is All Fair In Chess? - Chess.com
A well-known saying states that all is fair in love and war. Our beloved game is actually both love and war. While it is pretty obvious that chess is a war on 64 ...
Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Tomorrow - Chess.com
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The Grand Chess Tour doesn't fit Magnus Carlsen's schedule this year, which gives him the opportunity to play some other tournaments. Those include the European Club Cup in the fall, and the Biel Chess Festival in the summer. Carlsen played in Biel six ...
Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday - Chess.com
For the first time in six years, Magnus Carlsen is playing in Biel again. He tops the field and will compete with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ...
Dortmund 2018, 5: Nepo crushes Kramnik - chess24
Ian Nepomniachtchi was announced on Friday as part of the Russian Olympiad team alongside Vladimir Kramnik, but after their Round 5 game in Dortmund ...
Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday - Chess.com
For the first time in six years, Magnus Carlsen is playing in Biel again. He tops the field and will compete with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ...
Dortmund 2018, 5: Nepo crushes Kramnik - chess24
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Ian Nepomniachtchi was announced on Friday as part of the Russian Olympiad team alongside Vladimir Kramnik, but after their Round 5 game in Dortmund there may be some arguments over board order! Nepo was surprised by Kramnik in the opening, but ...
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New video series and recommendation system - chess24
Jan Gustafsson's latest video series, “A repertoire against 1.Nf3, 1.c4 and 1.g3,” has just been released. Although a standalone series, it could also be thought of ...
Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 5 - chess24
Though we all tune into Jan's Opening Clinic for the words of chess opening wisdom of Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, in part 5 of the 20th edition the...
Dortmund 2018, 3: Duda strikes again as Giri loses - chess24
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Nf3 Nf6!? a relatively rare line of the Sicilian only championed at the very top level recently by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who played it in the recent Grand Chess Tour events and in Tata Steel earlier this year. Giri immediately sank into a six-minute ...
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Don't Park Your Car Below Giant Chess Sets, And Other News - Chess.com
It's a good thing the World Chess Hall of Fame keeps its giant chess set on the ground floor. Sure, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and IM Danny Rensch still do ...
Dortmund 2018, 2: Duda takes the lead - chess24
20-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu with the black pieces to take the sole lead after Round 2 of the Sparkassen Chess Meet...
Dortmund 2018, 1: "Chess is ugly and a draw" - chess24
Ian Nepomniachtchi almost celebrated his 28th birthday in style by beating Anish Giri in Round 1 of the 2018 Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund...
Kramnik hunts 11th Dortmund title - chess24
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He's previously won the Russian Championship, the Tal Memorial and came incredibly close to winning last year's London Chess Classic before losing to Fabiano Caruana in a playoff. He also has a Dortmund history, first appearing as a 17-year-old in 2008 ...
FIDE Ethics Commission Bans Ilyumzhinov - Chess.com
The FIDE ethics commission has sanctioned Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for violating the FIDE code of ethics. The FIDE president, who was banned from "holding any ...