Grand Chess Tour in the News

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Paris Rapid/Blitz
BusinessWorld Online
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
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 ...

Chess.com
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 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 ...

chess24
The Ilyumzhinov era is over
chess24
He knows the chess world both from a player's perspective and in its commercial aspects, and will be well-placed to negotiate a potential collaboration between FIDE and the Grand Chess Tour. His insistence that things should be above board was evident ...

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The Caruana conundrum  Spectator.co.uk

The Caruana conundrum on The Spectator | Over the course of this year Fabiano Caruana has scored splendidly in tournaments with classical time limits…

The Ilyumzhinov era is over  chess24

Yesterday Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced that after 23 years as FIDE President he won't be standing for re-election this October. The writing had l...

Nakamura's South African trainees begin European tour  Chess.com

The South African chess talents Vusimuzi Mlahleki (17) and CM Khanya Mazibuko (17) embarked on a chess tour of Europe. The two players were chosen by ...

KBIA
On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings
KBIA
The first two events of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) took place in Leuven from June 12-16 and Paris from June 20-24. After 10 grueling days full of brilliance, blunders and inspiring chess, two Americans are leading the tour, putting themselves in ...

St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings
St. Louis Public Radio
The first two events of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) took place in Leuven from June 12-16 and Paris from June 20-24. After 10 grueling days full of brilliance, blunders and inspiring chess, two Americans are leading the tour, putting themselves in ...

On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings  KBIA

On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings  St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings  St. Louis Public Radio

The first two events of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) took place in Leuven from June 12-16 and Paris from June 20-24. After 10 grueling days full of.

On Chess: Two Americans dominate to lead the Grand Chess Tour standings  St. Louis Public Radio

The first two events of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) took place in Leuven from June 12-16 and Paris from June 20-24. After 10 grueling days full of.

Spectator.co.uk
The Caruana conundrum
Spectator.co.uk
Where Caruana has slipped up is in quickplay events. In the first leg of this year's Grand Chess Tour Wesley So won the rapidplay section while Sergei Karjakin came out on top of the blitz. Caruana failed miserably on both occasions, and it has become ...

Chess.com
Grand Chess Tour Pro Biz: Kasparov's First Bughouse Game
Chess.com
On Monday the Paris Grand Chess Tour participants had a Pro Biz event, and were traditionally joined by Garry Kasparov. It was also announced that Magnus Carlsen will play the Sinquefield Cup. The Château d'Asnières in the town of Asnières-sur-Seine in ...

chess24
Magnus Carlsen to play the Sinquefield Cup
chess24
The last clash between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana before their World Championship match now looks set to take place this August in the Sinquefield Cup, after Magnus accepted an invitation to be the wild card for the Grand Chess Tour's only ...

Kasparov's 1st Bughouse Game: Grand Chess Tour  Chess.com

On Monday, the Paris Grand Chess Tour participants had a "pro-biz" event, and were joined by Garry Kasparov. It was also announced that Magnus Carlsen will ...

Grand Chess Tour Paris: Hikaru Nakamura wins title on dramatic final day; Viswanathan Anand finishes sixth  Firstpost

The battles moved to the blitz time control on the fourth day of the Grand Chess Tour in Paris. Instead of 20 minutes with a ten-second delay, the players now had ...

Chess: Why Wesley So thinks Marvel should make 'superhero feature' about top players  ABS-CBN News

So tried to catch up, but eventually settled for third place in the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour early Monday.