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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 4:28pm

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat
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Fabiano Carunana, two-years younger than Carlsen and now the second-ranked player in the world, narrowly missed winning the previous Candidates, while Wesley So, a year younger than Caruana, has come on strong in the past few years and is currently ...

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 9:07am

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat
Business Insider
Fabiano Carunana, two-years younger than Carlsen and now the second-ranked player in the world, narrowly missed winning the previous Candidates, while Wesley So, a year younger than Caruana, has come on strong in the past few years and is currently ...

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 2:00am
2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat  Business Insider

In 2016, Norway's Magnus Carlsen defeated Russia's Sergey Karjakin in a tight match held in New York to claim his third World Chess Championship title.

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 2:00am
2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat  Business Insider

In 2016, Norway's Magnus Carlsen defeated Russia's Sergey Karjakin in a tight match held in New York to claim his third World Chess Championship title.

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2018 year in chess preview - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 2:00am
2018 year in chess preview  Business Insider

In 2016, Norway's Magnus Carlsen defeated Russia's Sergey Karjakin in a tight match held in New York to claim his third World Chess Championship title.

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2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat - Business Insider

London Chess Classic News - January 8, 2018 - 2:00am
2018 is going to be a very big year in chess as Magnus Carlsen goes for a World Championship 4-peat  Business Insider

In 2016, Norway's Magnus Carlsen defeated Russia's Sergey Karjakin in a tight match held in New York to claim his third World Chess Championship title.

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Viswanathan Anand feels India has a good chance of winning gold at the Chess Olympiad - Firstpost

Grand Chess Tour News - January 7, 2018 - 9:50am

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Viswanathan Anand feels India has a good chance of winning gold at the Chess Olympiad
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Mumbai: Six-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who recently bagged the World Rapid title in Riyadh, said India would be one of the five-six top teams at the Chess Olympiad. Asked on Sunday whether a Chess Olympiad Gold was a possibility, Anand said ...
Be careful; Lazy lot; Age no bar - The TelegraphThe Telegraph

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Who was the player of the year? - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - January 7, 2018 - 2:00am
Who was the player of the year?  Chessbase News

At the end of our survey of 2017, we will be voting for the "Player of the Year 2017". We picked ten players who stood out over the past 12 months, excelling in ...

Be careful - The Telegraph

Grand Chess Tour News - January 6, 2018 - 1:03pm

Be careful
The Telegraph
Sir - The five-time world chess champion in the classical category, Viswanathan Anand, said that it was an amazing feeling to win the World Rapid Championship ("Anand: Victory is a wonderful surprise", Dec 30). His feeling was shared by Indian chess ...

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'Smooth Operator' MVL Wins Chess960 Championship - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - January 6, 2018 - 2:00am
'Smooth Operator' MVL Wins Chess960 Championship  Chess.com

The super-grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave decided to join the field and ended up crushing that field. The French number-one scored 8.5/9 and won the ...

Background showdown - Chessbase News

London Chess Classic News - January 5, 2018 - 2:00am
Background showdown  Chessbase News

Do you remember this game from the London Chess Classic last year? By playing 43...Rh7 in the diagram position Anand could have completed the line-up of ...

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Who was Paul Felix Schmidt? - Chessbase News

Sinquefield Cup News - January 5, 2018 - 2:00am
Who was Paul Felix Schmidt?  Chessbase News

Only a few chess enthusiasts will remember the name of Paul Felix Schmidt thought Schmidt was one of the world's best players in the 1930s and 1940s, and ...

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The Life and Sad Endgame of Bill Lombardy - Chessbase News

London Chess Classic News - January 4, 2018 - 2:00am
The Life and Sad Endgame of Bill Lombardy  Chessbase News

William James Joseph 'Bill' Lombardy, who died suddenly in mid-October at the age of 79, has to go down in the annals of U.S. chess — and arguably perhaps ...

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Azerbaijani GM gets into FIDE top three - AzerNews

Grand Chess Tour News - January 4, 2018 - 2:00am
Azerbaijani GM gets into FIDE top three  AzerNews

Azerbaijani GM Shahriyar Mammadyarov ended the year on the third place at the FIDE rating list of 2017.

Thursday: 1st Chess.com Chess960 Championship - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - January 4, 2018 - 2:00am
Thursday: 1st Chess.com Chess960 Championship  Chess.com

Tired of opening theory but still want to play for great prizes? Then we have good news. We're hosting the first Chess.com Chess960 Championship on January ...

Why Negative Thinking Works - Big Think (blog)

Grand Chess Tour News - January 3, 2018 - 3:13pm

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Why Negative Thinking Works
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Grandmaster chess player Garry Kasparov contemplates a move in a match against grandmaster Fabiano Caruana during the final day of the Grand Chess Tour at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in St. Louis on August 18, 2017. (Photo: Bill Greenblatt/AFP ...

New FIDE Laws Of Chess For Blitz, Rapid Still Not Perfect - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - January 3, 2018 - 2:00am
New FIDE Laws Of Chess For Blitz, Rapid Still Not Perfect  Chess.com

As of January 1, the FIDE Laws of Chess are slightly different than before, when it comes to rapid chess and blitz. However, as GM Peter Heine Nielsen and ...

Viswanathan Anand looking to experiment with his game in 2018 to keep his brain motivated - Scroll.in

London Chess Classic News - January 2, 2018 - 5:28am

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Viswanathan Anand looking to experiment with his game in 2018 to keep his brain motivated
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Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand had a dismal season last year. He made an early exit in the Chess World Cup in Georgia and finished last in the London Chess Classic. However, he ended 2017 on a high by winning the World Rapid Chess Championship ...
Viswanathan Anand says stability key factor in surge to World Rapid titleHindustan Times
Losing only one game at World Blitz is huge achievement: AnandSportstarlive
Viswanathan Anand wins bronze at World Blitz Chess ChampionshipESPN
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Viswanathan Anand looking to experiment with his game in 2018 to keep his brain motivated - Scroll.in

London Chess Classic News - January 2, 2018 - 2:00am
Viswanathan Anand looking to experiment with his game in 2018 to keep his brain motivated  Scroll.in

Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand had a dismal season last year. He made an early exit in the Chess World Cup in Georgia and finished last in the ...

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