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Grand Chess Tour Resumes On Wednesday In Leuven
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The Grand Chess Tour resumes on Wednesday with an identical tournament to the one in Paris. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Vassily ...

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Master Shifu of Indian chess: R.B. Ramesh (3/3)  Chessbase News

The third and final part of Ramesh's interview with ChessBase India by Niklesh Jain. In this section coach R.B. Ramesh talks about how ChessBase India has ...

Melik Ghukasyan: Simon Martirosyan exceeded our expectations  Mediamax.am

Silver medalist of Rio Olympics, this year's European Champion Simon Martirosyan took the gold in the Junior World Weightlifting Championship in Tokyo.

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Magnus Carlsen puts recent poor form behind him at Grand Tour elite rapids
The Guardian
The Grand Tour continues with more rapid and blitz in Brussels in early July, but then comes the moment of truth for Carlsen and his No1 classical rating: the Sinquefield Cup starting in St Louis on 31 July where Carlsen's pursuers, notably Kramnik and ...

Magnus Carlsen puts recent poor form behind him at Grand Tour elite rapids  The Guardian

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, failed at Stavanger recently but was dominant in the Paris speed tournament and finished with a final score of 14/18.

Grand Chess Tour - Paris: Magnus Carlsen dominates  Chessbase News

For chess fans, Day Two in the Paris tournament in the Grand Chess Tour was a wonderful day to follow the games. The players produced inspired attacks with ...

Wesley braces for Paris Grand Chess Tour
The Manila Times
The second leg dubbed as the Leuven Grand Chess Tour is slated on June 26 to July 2 in Belgium to be followed by the Sinquefield Cup Grand Chess Tour on July 31 to August 12 in Missouri, US; Saint Louis Rapid Grand Chess Tour on August 13 to 20 in ...

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Grand Chess Tour Takes Off In Paris
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These nine players will all compete in the 2017 Sinquefield Cup (July 31-August 12) and the 2017 London Classic (November 29-December 12) where they will be joined by one wildcard in each tournament. The three wild cards are GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, ...

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Grand Chess Tour Takes Off In Paris  Chess.com

The 2017 Grand Chess Tour kicked off today in Paris with pro-am activities at the Vivendi headquarters, at a stone's throw of de Arc de Triomphe. With a series of ...

Beautiful chess in Norway
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Two years ago, when Aronian won the 5th Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis, we all thought that he had finally overcome his long slump which caused his rating to tumble down from 2825 (May 2012) to 2765 in 2015. From being the no. 2 player in the world he ...

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Carlsen avsluttet Norway Chess med remis mot Anand
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Carlsen ønsker seg ikke sjakkfri de neste dagene før de neste turneringene. - Sjakk er jo det morsomste jeg vet, sa Carlsen som skal spille lyn- og hurtigsjakk i Paris om ikke lenge. Neste turnering i langsjakk for Carlsen blir prestisjetunge ...
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Chess in school keeps learners engaged  STLtoday.com

Many have noted St. Louis' meteoric rise to international prominence in the game of chess. Visit the city's Central West End and you are more likely to bump into ...

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Chess in school keeps learners engaged
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The chess elite frequent the city to compete in the many national and international tournaments hosted at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, including the much-ballyhooed Sinquefield Cup, a super-tournament that hails as one of four ...

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On Chess: 2017 Grand Chess Tour begins next week with larger prize fund and the world's top players
St. Louis Public Radio
The three blitz and rapid events (Paris, Leuven and St. Louis) will each have a $150,000 prize fund, whereas the classical events (Sinquefield Cup and London Classic), will offer $300,000 each. Once again, the winner of the tour will be awarded with a ...

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On Chess: 2017 Grand Chess Tour begins next week with larger prize fund and the world's top players
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The three blitz and rapid events (Paris, Leuven and St. Louis) will each have a $150,000 prize fund, whereas the classical events (Sinquefield Cup and London Classic), will offer $300,000 each. Once again, the winner of the tour will be awarded with a ...

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Norway Chess Round 8: Carlsen defeats Karjakin  Chessbase News

It was a very tense round with so much at stake. Not only the top spot, which is still open to be challenged, but the world no.1 spot was under assault. Magnus ...

On Chess: 2017 Grand Chess Tour begins next week with larger prize fund and the world's top players  St. Louis Public Radio

The third annual Grand Chess Tour, arguably the top chess tour in the world, is right around the corner with none other than Magnus Carlsen headlining the.

International community coming to the idea of taking measures against Azerbaijan, Nalbandian says  Panorama.am

The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs had to issue targeted statements over the Karabakh conflict ceasefire violations, as we witnessed days ago when the ...

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Maxim Matlakov Wins European Championship
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Three players topped the devilishly strong European Individual Championships which took place May 31 through June 10 in Minsk, Belarus. GMs Maxim Matlakov, Baadur Jobava, and Vladimir Fedoseev each scored 8.5/11 though they did it in quite different ...

Maxim Matlakov Wins European Championship  Chess.com

Three players topped the devilishly strong European Individual Championships which took place May 31 through June 10 in Minsk, Belarus. GMs Maxim ...