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Azerbaijani chess players to vie for medals in Sweden  AzerNews

Azerbaijani chess players will compete in the Hasselbacken Open tournament, which kicks off in Stockholm, Sweden, on Saturday, Azertac reports.

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Carlsen vant Norway Chess for første gang: – Utrolig deilig!
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Bare i Norway Chess 2015 og i Sinquefield Cup på høsten i fjor har han blitt slått. Filmanmeldelse: «Magnus» – gripende om det ubegripelige. Stavanger-triumfen var Magnus Carlsens fjerde turneringsseier på rad. Han tront øverst i både i London, i Qatar ...

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Carlsen vant Norway Chess for første gang: – Utrolig deilig!
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Bare i Norway Chess 2015 og i Sinquefield Cup på høsten i fjor har han blitt slått. Filmanmeldelse: «Magnus» – gripende om det ubegripelige. Stavanger-triumfen var Magnus Carlsens fjerde turneringsseier på rad. Han tront øverst i både i London, i Qatar ...

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Carlsen vant Norway Chess for første gang: – Utrolig deilig!
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Bare i Norway Chess 2015 og i Sinquefield Cup på høsten i fjor har han blitt slått. Filmanmeldelse: «Magnus» – gripende om det ubegripelige. Stavanger-triumfen var Magnus Carlsens fjerde turneringsseier på rad. Han tront øverst i både i London, i Qatar ...

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Garry Kasparov still has the magic!  Chessbase News

It was exciting nine rounds of blitz chess. Day one ended with Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So taking the lead with 5.0/9. While the duo played well, the player ...

Carlsen wins Norway Chess  Chessbase News

After seven rounds Magnus Carlsen looked almost certain to win the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. But then he lost against Levon Aronian in round eight, ...

Magnus Carlsen's Berlin Wall stands firm against MVL at Norway Chess  Telegraph.co.uk

The Berlin Wall was Magnus Carlsen's preferred method of neutralising the attacking prowess of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the sixth round of Altibox Norway ...

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Magnus Carlsen's Berlin Wall stands firm against MVL at Norway Chess
Telegraph.co.uk
The chasing pack expanded further when Pentyla Harikrishna inflicted a rare defeat on Anish Giri, whose attacking intentions against the French Defence came to nought. Giri was left with weaknesses on the queenside and a key pawn dropped off in the ...

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest
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For eight years running, the U.S. Chess Championship has been held at the club, as has the Sinquefield Cup, an international tournament whose online broadcast had 1.5 million viewers last year. Congress declared St. Louis the nation's “chess capital ...

Pestaño: Only a few black players excel in chess
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So will also play in the Grand Chess Tour, a series of tournaments in Paris, Brussels, St. Louis and London featuring nine players — all ranked in the top 15 in the world — plus a wild card entry from each country. The tour carries a total prize fund ...

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Pestaño: Only a few black players excel in chess
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So will also play in the Grand Chess Tour, a series of tournaments in Paris, Brussels, St. Louis and London featuring nine players — all ranked in the top 15 in the world — plus a wild card entry from each country. The tour carries a total prize fund ...

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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Sjekk den utrolige Carlsen-spådommen
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GODT TIPS: Jon Ludvig Hammer (til høyre) serverte en utrolig spådom før starten av Altibox Norway Chess. Her sammen med verdensmester Magnus Carlsen i Norway Chess 2015. Foto: Carina Johansen / NTB scanpix. Kan TV 2s sjakkekspert få ni av ni ...

Not losing wasn't enough for local grandmaster to win U.S. championship  Minneapolis Star Tribune

ST. LOUIS — Against the strongest field ever assembled for the U.S. Chess Championship, Grandmaster Wesley So of Minnetonka didn't lose a single game ...

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So comes up short in title quest
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So will have a chance to make up for it as he is scheduled to play Chinese GM Ding Liren in a duel from May 1-9 in China, the Grand Chess Tour (rapid and blitz) from June 8-14 in Paris France and the same tournament (rapid and blitz) from June 15-21 in ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Not losing wasn't enough for local grandmaster to win US championship
Minneapolis Star Tribune
So will also play in the Grand Chess Tour, a series of tournaments in Paris, Brussels, St. Louis and London featuring nine players — all ranked in the top 15 in the world — plus a wildcard entry from each country. The tour carries a total prize fund ...

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Barden's record-breaking chess column  Chessbase News

According to our calculations Leonard Barden has been at it for sixty years and seven months – making him the longest running uninterrupted weekly chess ...

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GM Mark Hebden wins Polar Capital Open on Jersey as US Chess Championship gets under way
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Ng3 g615.Bg5 (A good move. The main line is 15.a4 c516.d5 c4 17.Bg5 as in the fine game Anand-Carlsen, Norway Chess, 2015. Now if 15...Bg716.Qd2 and the bishop cannot be shifted) 15...h6 16.Bd2 Bg717.a4 c6 (17...C518.d5 c4 19.b4 is also played) 18.axb5 ...

GM Mark Hebden wins Polar Capital Open on Jersey as US Chess Championship gets under way  Telegraph.co.uk

Five straight wins propelled Mark Hebden to the head of the Polar Capital Open at Jersey.