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The Indian Express
Kasparov ropes in top GMs for 'Grand Chess Tour'
The Indian Express
The world's top eight chess players have committed to a three-tournament circuit, called the “Grand Chess Tour” with a total prize money of $1,050,000. At an announcement made at the end of April at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis ...

The Indian Express
Kasparov ropes in top GMs for 'Grand Chess Tour'
The Indian Express
Kasparov's involvement has raised murmurs of it being a breakaway league though the clutch of events that includes Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic are expected to follow the FIDE rules and ...

The Indian Express
Kasparov ropes in top GMs for 'Grand Chess Tour'
The Indian Express
Kasparov's involvement has raised murmurs of it being a breakaway league though the clutch of events that includes Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic are expected to follow the FIDE rules and ...

Views and News from Norway
Confident Carlsen promotes chess
Views and News from Norway
Other events on his professional program this year include the Sinquefield Cup in August, the World Championships in lightning chess in October and the London Chess Classic in December. “It's very important for me to feel that I'm also continuing to ...

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Views and News from Norway
Confident Carlsen promotes chess
Views and News from Norway
Other events on his professional program this year include the Sinquefield Cup in August, the World Championships in lightning chess in October and the London Chess Classic in December. “It's very important for me to feel that I'm also continuing to ...

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Chess gets a $1 million Grand Chess Tour
Economic Times
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the tour has signed up Carlsen, Fabiano ...

Chess gets a $1 million Grand Chess Tour
Economic Times
According to the organisers, "Each of the three 2015 Grand Chess Tour events will award individual prize funds of $300,000, with competitors also tallying points toward a tour prize fund of $150,000; the overall tour champion will receive an additional ...

Chess gets a $1 million Grand Chess Tour
Economic Times
According to the organisers, "Each of the three 2015 Grand Chess Tour events will award individual prize funds of $300,000, with competitors also tallying points toward a tour prize fund of $150,000; the overall tour champion will receive an additional ...

Chess gets a $1 million Grand Chess Tour
Economic Times
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the tour has signed up Carlsen, Fabiano ...

Chess gets a $1 million Grand Chess Tour
Economic Times
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the tour has signed up Carlsen, Fabiano ...

The Guardian
Garry Kasparov shows his class with rapid demolition of Nigel Short
The Guardian
Kasparov's 10-game rapid/blitz match with Nigel Short was intended as an extra to the announcement of a new $1m Grand Tour in which the London Chess Classic at Olympia this December will be the finale. Kasparov began with a draw from a winning ...

The Guardian
Garry Kasparov shows his class with rapid demolition of Nigel Short
The Guardian
The Grand Tour, which is clearly intended as a Western rival to Fide's Grand Prix series where almost all the venues are in the old Soviet Union, will comprise the Stavanger, St Louis (Sinquefield Cup) and London Classic tournaments, with an Indonesian ...

Chess (#1146)
Business Standard
There was also the announcement of a new "Grand Chess Tour" circuit with three super tournaments in Norway, St. Louis and London. Nine top GMs - Carlsen, Anand, Caruana, Alexander Grischuk, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Giri, Hikaru Nakamura, ...

Hammer, Jon Ludvig vs. Topalov, Veselin | Norway Chess 2015  Chess24

Garry Kasparov shows his class with rapid demolition of Nigel Short  The Guardian

The former world champion won seven straight games to take the series 8.5-1.5 in a stunning exhibition of rapid/blitz play.

Leonard Barden on Chess | Sport  The Guardian

The former world champion won seven straight games to take the series 8.5-1.5 in a stunning exhibition of rapid/blitz play.

Malay Mail Online
On Chess: Super-tournament Sinquefield Cup to become part of prestigious ...
St. Louis Public Radio
The answer came last week at an internationally viewed press conference in the Central West End, announcing the newly formed Grand Chess Tour -- and a new gold standard for elite chess competition. In 2015, the Sinquefield Cup will join forces with two ...
Sometimes, it is not even about the gameMalay Mail Online

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Malay Mail Online
On Chess: Super-tournament Sinquefield Cup to become part of prestigious ...
St. Louis Public Radio
The Grand Chess Tour links the organizational efforts behind the Sinquefield Cup with those backing the London Chess Classic and Norway Chess, together setting a new model for player conditions, prize funds and a full-blown spectator experience.
Sometimes, it is not even about the gameMalay Mail Online

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Malay Mail Online
On Chess: Super-tournament Sinquefield Cup to become part of prestigious ...
St. Louis Public Radio
Two years ago, the inaugural Sinquefield Cup lured World Champion Magnus Carlsen to his first-ever American chess game -- and the St. Louis super tournament, then-celebrated as the strongest in U.S. history, was opened with rousing success.
Sometimes, it is not even about the gameMalay Mail Online

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Malay Mail Online
Sometimes, it is not even about the game
Malay Mail Online
Significant but not a big secret—and so not quite overshadowing either Shamkir or the St Louis Match—was the announcement made at the Chess Club and Scholastic Centre of St Louis the day before of the coming Grand Chess Tour with Carlsen and seven ...