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AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 9-12 - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 30, 2018 - 12:54pm
AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 9-12  chess24

DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaZero is used by Matthew Sadler to analyse the World Chess Championship games between Magnus Carlsen and ...

Princeton wins Ivy Chess Challenge - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - November 29, 2018 - 7:19pm
Princeton wins Ivy Chess Challenge  Chessbase News

11/30/2018 – The inaugural Ivy Chess Challenge was the one of the strongest collegiate tournament to be ever held in North America, after the Pan-American ...

Speed Chess Championship: The Final 4 Footrace! - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - November 29, 2018 - 2:00pm
Speed Chess Championship: The Final 4 Footrace!  Chess.com

After a year of exciting chess, this weekend is the culmination of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship. Who will survive the final four and emerge as the ...

Magnus Carlsen wins 4th World Chess Championship - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 28, 2018 - 2:00am
Magnus Carlsen wins 4th World Chess Championship  chess24

Magnus Carlsen demolished Fabiano Caruana 3:0 in rapid tiebreaks on Wednesday to retain his World Championship title for another two years. He wa...

Kings Tournament celebrates Romania's Centenary - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - November 28, 2018 - 2:00am
Kings Tournament celebrates Romania's Centenary  Chessbase News

In honour of the Centenary of Romania's Unification Day, the ROMGAZ Kings Tournament organised an event that included some of the strongest players from ...

Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week - St. Louis Public Radio

Grand Chess Tour News - November 27, 2018 - 6:05am
Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week  St. Louis Public Radio

Fabiano Caruana is the first American to play in the World Chess Championship match since Bobby Fischer back in 1972. If he wins against defending ...

Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week - St. Louis Public Radio

Grand Chess Tour News - November 27, 2018 - 6:05am

St. Louis Public Radio

Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week
St. Louis Public Radio
The billionaire financier has had a lot to do with making his St. Louis Chess Club in the Central West End the place for grandmasters to be. There's the annual Sinquefield Cup, a stop on the Grand Chess Tour, as well as the grandmaster-in-residence ...

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Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week - St. Louis Public Radio

Grand Chess Tour News - November 27, 2018 - 2:00am
Our first chess world champion? Caruana could cement St. Louis as chess capital this week  St. Louis Public Radio

Fabiano Caruana is the first American to play in the World Chess Championship match since Bobby Fischer back in 1972. If he wins against defending ...

Speed Chess Championship: The Final 4 Footrace! - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - November 26, 2018 - 7:04am

Chess.com

Speed Chess Championship: The Final 4 Footrace!
Chess.com
So: For me it's the establishment of the Saint Louis Chess Club and the Grand Chess Tour. Before that they were holding the U.S. Championship in a basement and chess in the United States didn't have an official home. Now we have the Chess Hall of Fame ...

AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 1-8 - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 24, 2018 - 2:00am
AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 1-8  chess24

DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaZero is used by Matthew Sadler to analyse the World Chess Championship games between Magnus Carlsen and ...

Carlsen To Defend Tata Steel Chess Title - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - November 21, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen To Defend Tata Steel Chess Title  Chess.com

Magnus Carlsen will once again be playing in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, January 11-27, 2019 in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. The two external ...

What if the World Championship match is decided in blitz games? - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - November 21, 2018 - 2:00am
What if the World Championship match is decided in blitz games?  Chessbase News

Two years ago, in New York, Magnus Carlsen defended his title by winning the rapid tiebreaker. Traditionalists will shudder at the thought of blitz games ...

Den omstridte milliardæren pumper penger inn i sjakken. Nå kan Magnus Carlsen ... - Bergens Tidende

Grand Chess Tour News - November 20, 2018 - 1:55pm

Bergens Tidende

Den omstridte milliardæren pumper penger inn i sjakken. Nå kan Magnus Carlsen ...
Bergens Tidende
«Jeg liker ikke å bli kalt et sjakkgeni, for jeg anser meg selv som et geni som tilfeldigvis spiller sjakk.» Det berømte sitatet tilhører Bobby Fischer. Og den amerikanske sjakklegenden hadde det ikke bare i kjeften. I 1972 kronet han en spektakulær ...

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Carlsen-Caruana 8: Fabi lets another chance slip - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 20, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen-Caruana 8: Fabi lets another chance slip  chess24

Fabiano Caruana missed his best chance yet to take the lead in the match as he got the better of Magnus Carlsen in the opening to Game 8 but then ...

'They Are Indeed Buying Nerds!' Chess World Questions an American Grandmaster's Move—to the US - Wall Street Journal

Grand Chess Tour News - November 19, 2018 - 3:22pm

Wall Street Journal

'They Are Indeed Buying Nerds!' Chess World Questions an American Grandmaster's Move—to the US
Wall Street Journal
St. Louis was given a tournament on the prestigious Grand Chess Tour, called the Sinquefield Cup. In 2014, Mr. So announced his transfer from the Philippines. Around the same time, Italy was trying to convince Mr. Caruana to stay—but they could only ...

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Carlsen-Caruana 7: Magnus “way too soft” - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 19, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen-Caruana 7: Magnus “way too soft”  chess24

Just as in New York two years ago, Magnus Carlsen has now drawn the first 7 games of his title defence, with Fabiano Caruana looking more comfortable by the ...

World Chess Championship Game 8: Carlsen Dodges Bullet In Sveshnikov Sicilian - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - November 19, 2018 - 2:00am
World Chess Championship Game 8: Carlsen Dodges Bullet In Sveshnikov Sicilian  Chess.com

"It kind of felt like I got away with murder," Magnus Carlsen said about game six. In game eight, he dodged a bullet. After another draw in their world ...

‘They Are Indeed Buying Nerds!’ Chess World Questions an American Grandmaster’s Move—to the U.S. - The Wall Street Journal

Grand Chess Tour News - November 19, 2018 - 2:00am
‘They Are Indeed Buying Nerds!’ Chess World Questions an American Grandmaster’s Move—to the U.S.  The Wall Street Journal

Fabiano Caruana—currently competing against Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship—stirred up controversy by switching from representing Italy ...

Ali Hasanov: It is maintenance of public order, not the issue of political affiliation which is main criterion for police - AZERTAC News

Grand Chess Tour News - November 18, 2018 - 2:00am
Ali Hasanov: It is maintenance of public order, not the issue of political affiliation which is main criterion for police  AZERTAC News

On November 17, leaders and members of Azerbaijani Popular Front Party as well as a group of activists of several other political organizations attempted to ...

Lagno to battle Ju Wenjun for women's title - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - November 18, 2018 - 2:00am
Lagno to battle Ju Wenjun for women's title  chess24

There are few things harder in chess than defending a World Championship title in a big knockout, but current Chinese Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun ...

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