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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14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund - Chess.com
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Giri's last over-the-board tournament, the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour in Leuven, didn't go so great. He does enter Dortmund with a positive feeling (and an extra $1,000 in his pocket) because on Tuesday he won the Speed Chess Championship open ...
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14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund - Chess.com
Top classical chess returns this Saturday with the start of the Dortmund super tournament. "Mr. Dortmund," Vladimir Kramnik, is again the top seed, but Anish Giri ...
So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes - Chess.com
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The players were the world's youngest grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Leuven Grand Chess Tour winner Wesley So, and both a rising star and an experienced grandmaster from Spain: Jaime Santos and Paco Vallejo. As always, the ...
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So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes - Chess.com
Wesley So retained his Leon Masters title after beating Paco Vallejo in the final. This was despite Friday, when the American was close to getting eliminated by ...
Wesley So defends his Leon Masters title - chess24
The Philippines born US star Wesley So has won his second consecutive Leon Masters after needing tiebreaks to beat Spanish no. 1 Paco Vallejo in th...
Leon Masters 2: Vallejo has two lives - chess24
Spanish no. 1 Francisco Vallejo mounted a comeback against Jaime Santos to win the second semifinal of the 2018 Leon Masters and earn a match again...
So beats Pragg by the slimmest margin in Leon - Chessbase News
The second youngest grandmaster in history, R. Praggnanandhaa came close to beating the second highest rated rapid player in the world Wesley So in the first ...
Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus? - Chess.com
The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the ...
Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus? - Chess.com
The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the ...
Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 3 - chess24
In Season 20, Episode 3 of Jan's Opening Clinic, Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson once again sets out to cure the chess opening ailments of chess24 Premi...
Path to Gold recounts U.S. Olympiad team story - Chessbase News
It's Independence Day in the United States, and therefore a day for cookouts, celebrating and fireworks. Or, why not take in a film? In this case, you only need ...
FIDE presidential race is all set - Chessbase News
During the next Chess Olympiad, a new president will be elected at the FIDE Congress. That much became clear after Kirsan Ilyumzhinov officially withdrew his ...
Nepo and Naiditsch lead in Jerusalem - chess24
Ian Nepomniachtchi took the lead on 3/4 in the Gideon Japhet Cup in Jerusalem, after winning both his mini-matches against Vassily Ivanchuk and B...
"Armenia" Symphonic Poem opens int'l music festival in Yerevan - Panorama.am
The second edition of Armenia International Music Festival kicked off in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, on Monday with the performance of “Armenia” Symphonic ...
Make Caruana Great Again, And Other News - Chess.com
This month's edition of In Other News spans the globe. We have several stories about American chess, including how you can help GM Fabiano Caruana visit ...
Paris Rapid/Blitz - BusinessWorld Online
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Grand Chess Tour (GCT) points are awarded based on your final standing at the end of each tournament. For the Rapid/Blitz events the rules give 13 points for the tournament victor, 10 for second place, eight for third place, seven for fourth place and ...
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Chess notes - The Boston Globe
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Today's game comes from the recently concluded Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid/Blitz event. It's between two former world champions, Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. Both are aging but keep very active at the highest levels. In the event, Anand finished ...
Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus? - Chess.com
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The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the first time he will defend his title against a younger challenger, the 25-year-old American ...
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July 2018 FIDE Ratings - Chessbase News
June was a busy month for rapid and blitz ratings with some players playing 36 games of the latter. In terms of classical performances, Sam Shankland has ...