Strongest Tournament Of 2017 Starts Monday - Chess.com
On Monday the fifth edition of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament takes off in Stavanger, Norway. As Magnus Carlsen himself tweeted this week, it's going to ...
Charity Chess: Using Chess to Help Others - Chessbase News
When fifteen grandmasters pledge their support to a chess tournament, chess players pay attention. The first Charity Chess Championship promised a ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
Next up is the “Your Next Move” on June 28 to July 2, a 10-player round robin rapids event and 18-round blitz event in Leuven, Belgium. The field includes Carlsen, along with former world champs Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. The Sinquefield Cup ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is up to its great chess promoting tricks again with the sponsorship of the 2017 Spring Classic .
Det som USA og Spania aldri har klart, skulle skje i Norge. Men nå ... - Bergens Tidende
Bergens Tidende
Bergens Tidende
Om drøyt to uker starter den femte utgaven av sjakkturneringen Norway Chess i Stavanger. 14. februar kunne arrangøren stolt annonsere hvilke ti spillere som ...
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Det som USA og Spania aldri har klart, skulle skje i Norge. Men nå ødelegger ... - Aftenposten
Aftenposten
Aftenposten
Selv ikke de berømte Linares-turneringene i Spania fra 1978 til 2010 eller nåtidens storturneringer som Sinquefield Cup i USA har klart å samle verdens ti beste spillere tidligere. Dermed var det liten tvil om at Norway Chess-listen som ble publisert i ...
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How chess saved a village - Chessbase News
In a country as vast as India, peppered with villages all over, economic prosperity is often the difference between folding in on itself or survival. Many villages ...
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes
Part of what has brought prestige to the club is that it's the host of several large chess tournaments, including the United States Chess Championship, the Sinquefield Cup (part of the Grand Chess Tour) and more. The events are large and broadcast over ...
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes
Part of what has brought prestige to the club is that it's the host of several large chess tournaments, including the United States Chess Championship, the Sinquefield Cup (part of the Grand Chess Tour) and more. The events are large and broadcast over ...
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes Now
The St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center has a pretty humble beginning. After retiring and moving back to his Missouri home, financier (and Forbes ...
What to do against the French? Sergei Tiviakov recommends 3.Nd2! - Chessbase News
Sergei Tiviakov knows how to win against the French: by playing 3.Nd2! The renowned author and grandmaster regularly plays this move which has brought him ...
Meet Kasparov, Reimeet A Legend, Run U.S. Chess - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
GM Garry Kasparov having some fun amongst his fellow grandmasters after the 2015 Sinquefield Cup. While he's long argued that IBM had many advantages in the match, the book will also discuss how computers have advanced human understanding of ...
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Topalov Wins A Brilliancy In Shamkir - Chess.com
Pavel Eljanov won his second game in a row to start The Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir in clear first place after two rounds, but the main story of the day was ...
US Champion Wesley So - BusinessWorld Online Edition
BusinessWorld Online Edition
August 2016 -- 4th Sinquefield Cup (ELO average of 2778, category 22), solo first with two wins (over Topalov and Nakamura) and seven draws. Tied for second half a point behind him were Anand, Aronian, Caruana and Topalov. Performance rating of 2857.
On Chess: Professional players through the eyes of a grandmaster, coach and spectator - St. Louis Public Radio
From March 27 until mid-April, I had the chance to be grandmaster in residence at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Being at the “mecca”
On Chess: Professional players through the eyes of a grandmaster, coach and spectator - St. Louis Public Radio
From March 27 until mid-April, I had the chance to be grandmaster in residence at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Being at the “mecca”
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
He created the Sinquefield Cup tournament and other special invitational events that offered hundreds of thousands of dollars each in prize funds to the world's elite players. “We really take care of them,” Sinquefield said. “Everybody goes away making ...
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Star Tribune
ST. LOUIS – For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union dominated international chess competitions. Now the center of the chess world has shifted to the ...
Grenke Classic 2017: Hou Yifan is queen for the day...again! - Chessbase News
What can one say, except: wow. Of the four games in round two, three ended in decisive results, and Levon Aronian's escape from Magnus Carlsen was a small ...