Grand Chess Tour in the News

Pestaño: Will Wesley really shine this year? | SunStar
Sun.Star
After that, his next elite events are the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour starting June 18-26 in Paris and the second leg in Leuven, Belgium from June 27-July 3. Both of these events are in Rapid and Blitz formats. Both Paris and Leuven will have a ...

Grand Chess Tour 2017 + US Championships  Chessbase News

In June we will see Carlsen, So, Caruana, Kramnik, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Anand, Karjakin, Aronan, Mamedyarov and Giri – the numbers 1-11, all of them ...

Sportarena.com
Иванчук сыграет на представительном турнире в Левене
Sportarena.com
Перед этим, 21-25 июня в Париже пройдет еще один крупный турнир серии Grand Chess Tour – в столице Франции сыграют Магнус Карлсен, Никару Накамура, Уэсли Со, Максим Вашье-Лаграв, Сергей Карякин, Фабиано Каруана, Александр ...

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Լևոն Արոնյանը կմասնակցի Grand Chess Tour-ի Բելգիայի մրցաշարին
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Լևոն Արոնյանը կմասնակցի Grand Chess Tour-ի Բելգիայի մրցաշարին. 16:33, 13 Մարտ, 2017. ԵՐԵՎԱՆ, 13 ՄԱՐՏԻ, ԱՐԵՆՊՐԵՍ: Շախմատի Հայաստանի տղամարդկանց հավաքականի անդամ Լևոն Արոնյանը կմասնակցի Grand Chess Tour-ի ...

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Chess.com
Giri, Kramnik, Ivanchuk Among Grand Chess Tour Wild Cards
Chess.com
The organizers of the Grand Chess Tour stated that wildcards have been selected on two criteria: the players URS™ standings (the GCT's own "universal rating system), "as well as recent exceptional performances." Both Paris and Leuven will have a prize ...

Giri, Kramnik, Ivanchuk Among Grand Chess Tour Wild Cards  Chess.com

Giri, Kramnik, Ivanchuk Among Grand Chess Tour Wild Cards  Chess.com

The Boston Globe
Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The St. Louis Chess and Educational Center never seems to rest. Along with its numerous educational programs, relentless support of top-flight chess through the Grand Chess Tour and the US Championships, support of chess in the Boy Scouts, and the ...

KBIA
On Chess: Creating a path for future elite players through quarterly tournaments
KBIA
The tournaments will certainly attract international attention, but are not expected to be at the level of the flagship events, such as the Grand Chess Tour or the U.S. Championship. Both tournaments will be a single, ten player round robin event, and ...

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St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: Creating a path for future elite players through quarterly tournaments
St. Louis Public Radio
The tournaments will certainly attract international attention, but are not expected to be at the level of the flagship events, such as the Grand Chess Tour or the U.S. Championship. Both tournaments will be a single, ten player round robin event, and ...

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Wesley now no. 2 in world chess ranking
The Standard
So, who is 16 points behind Carlsen, is deep in preparation for his next series of tournaments--the 2017 Grand Chess Tour. In this series, Kramnik won't be around, with Levon Aronian taking his place in the tournament, which will offer a total purse of ...

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Wesley now no. 2 in world chess ranking
The Standard
So, who is 16 points behind Carlsen, is deep in preparation for his next series of tournaments--the 2017 Grand Chess Tour. In this series, Kramnik won't be around, with Levon Aronian taking his place in the tournament, which will offer a total purse of ...

On Chess: Chess cops! City of St. Louis police work with students in public schools  St. Louis Public Radio

The current climate of community and police relations in our country has forced law enforcement agencies to examine what tactics work well and what areas.

STLtoday.com
Editorial: Short takes on human athletes, car-racing doldrums and anti-privacy conspirators
STLtoday.com
... Stix elementary schools. The goal is to help kids learn strategy, focus and patience, the Post-Dispatch's Christine Byers reports. Who knows? In the not-too-distant future, one of them might be competing for the Grand Chess Tour's coveted ...

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ABC Nyheter
Carlsen dropper VM for Norge
ABC Nyheter
Verdensmesteren prioriterer i stedet deltakelse i Grand Chess Tour i Paris i juni. – Det er leit, fordi det er den ene sjansen til Norge, og det kan bli lenge til neste gang. Sånn sett er det dumt, sier manager Espen Agdestein. Carlsen har representert ...

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Carlsen vraker Norge i sjakk-VM for lag
Dagbladet.no
Grand Chess Tour er en serie med turneringer som han har valgt å spille, og da blir det umulig å kombinere med VM. Det er leit, men med Grand Chess Tour blir programmet i år ganske hektisk. Det ville kanskje uansett være vanskelig å få til selv på et ...

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Huffington Post
Chess Triumphs, Stumbles and Embarrassments
Huffington Post
Wesley So triumphed in the traditional Dutch tournament in Wijk aan Zee and Hikaru Nakamura prevailed in Gibraltar. Their victories were almost upstaged by the Women's world champion Hou Yifan. She deliberately lost a last round game in five moves with ...

Chess Triumphs, Stumbles and Embarrassments  Huffington Post

Two American grandmasters won the first major chess events of 2017. Wesley So triumphed in the traditional Dutch tournament in Wijk aan Zee and Hikar...

On Chess: Launch of Universal Rating System™ opens doors for global chess community
KBIA
The URS™ has already had a major impact on many of the world's top players as the January 2017 rating list heavily impacted the selection of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour wild cards. The launch of the URS™ system represents a quantum leap in the way that ...

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On Chess: Launch of Universal Rating System™ opens doors for global chess community
St. Louis Public Radio
Jan. 2, 2017 may well prove to be a landmark day in chess history as it marked the launch date of the new Universal Rating System (URS™). This exciting new system is expected to make it much easier for chess players across the world to achieve an ...