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Viswanathan Anand feels India has a good chance of winning gold at the Chess Olympiad
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Mumbai: Six-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who recently bagged the World Rapid title in Riyadh, said India would be one of the five-six top teams at the Chess Olympiad. Asked on Sunday whether a Chess Olympiad Gold was a possibility, Anand said ...
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Who was the player of the year?  Chessbase News

At the end of our survey of 2017, we will be voting for the "Player of the Year 2017". We picked ten players who stood out over the past 12 months, excelling in ...

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Sir - The five-time world chess champion in the classical category, Viswanathan Anand, said that it was an amazing feeling to win the World Rapid Championship ("Anand: Victory is a wonderful surprise", Dec 30). His feeling was shared by Indian chess ...

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'Smooth Operator' MVL Wins Chess960 Championship  Chess.com

The super-grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave decided to join the field and ended up crushing that field. The French number-one scored 8.5/9 and won the ...

Azerbaijani GM gets into FIDE top three  AzerNews

Azerbaijani GM Shahriyar Mammadyarov ended the year on the third place at the FIDE rating list of 2017.

Thursday: 1st Chess.com Chess960 Championship  Chess.com

Tired of opening theory but still want to play for great prizes? Then we have good news. We're hosting the first Chess.com Chess960 Championship on January ...

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Why Negative Thinking Works
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Grandmaster chess player Garry Kasparov contemplates a move in a match against grandmaster Fabiano Caruana during the final day of the Grand Chess Tour at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in St. Louis on August 18, 2017. (Photo: Bill Greenblatt/AFP ...

New FIDE Laws Of Chess For Blitz, Rapid Still Not Perfect  Chess.com

As of January 1, the FIDE Laws of Chess are slightly different than before, when it comes to rapid chess and blitz. However, as GM Peter Heine Nielsen and ...

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World Rapid and Blitz: Viswanathan Anand feels losing just one game in blitz event was a huge achievement
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Chennai: Chess ace Viswanathan Anand termed losing just one game at the World Blitz Championship in Riyadh as a huge achievement after capturing the title at the World Rapid event. "It is a fantastic feeling to finish on the podium in the Rapid and ...

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World Blitz - Day 1: Karjakin and Cramling grab lead  Chessbase News

The second stage is underway in Riyadh. 138 players are contesting the World Blitz Championship title in a 21-round Swiss, played over two days. At stake is a ...

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Viswanathan Anand rewinds and fast forwards at World Rapid Chess Championship
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Win against Magnus Carlsen was crucial moment, says Viswanathan Anand after World Rapid Chess Championship title. Viswanathan Anand wins World Rapid Chess Championship; watch his crowning moment. Viswanathan Anand beats World No 1 Magnus Carlsen in ...
World Rapid and Blitz: Viswanathan Anand off to slow start in blitz campaign; P Harikrishna leads way among IndiansFirstpost

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World Rapid and Blitz: Viswanathan Anand off to slow start in blitz campaign; P Harikrishna leads way among Indians
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Riyadh: Newly-crowned World Rapid Champion Viswanathan Anand won two and drew four in the first six rounds to make a slow start to his campaign at the World Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh on Friday. With absolutely no time to relax after a ...
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Chess rewind 2017: Viswanathan Anand’s year to forget, but other Indian shine  Hindustan Times

Chess rewind 2017: Viswanathan Anand’s year to forget, but other Indian shine  Hindustan Times

With Viswanathan Anand's best behind him, as witnessed by his results in 2017, Indian chess seeks stars to carry his legacy forward.

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Chess rewind 2017: Viswanathan Anand's year to forget, but other Indian shine
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Having not finished at the top of the Grand Chess Tour and not qualifying for the World Cup final, Anand is out of the Championship cycle in 2018 to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world title. However, Anand did show some signs of brilliance. In the ...

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Chess rewind 2017: Viswanathan Anand's year to forget, but Indian players shine
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Having not finished at the top of the Grand Chess Tour and not qualifying for the World Cup final, Anand is out of the Championship cycle in 2018 to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world title. However, Anand did show some signs of brilliance. In the ...

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Morozevich on trying things other than chess  chess24

Alexander Morozevich is still only 40, but in recent years has been missing from the very highest level of chess. In a new interview he reveals th...

On Chess: How the landscape changed, a look to the 2018 Candidates Tournament  St. Louis Public Radio

The last super tournament of 2017 ended with American grand master Fabiano Caruana edging out Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi in a tiebreak to claim victory at.

American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana Wins 2017 London Chess Classic
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LONDON: After nine rounds of competition spanning 10 days, American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana was named the winner of the final leg of the prestigious Grand Chess Tour (GCT), the 2017 London Chess Classic. The contest went down to the wire, as ...

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American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana Wins 2017 London Chess Classic
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LONDON, Dec. 18, 2017 — After nine rounds of competition spanning 10 days, American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana was named the winner of the final leg of the prestigious Grand Chess Tour (GCT), the 2017 London Chess Classic. The contest went down to ...