London Chess Classic News

Michael Adams gets Wildcard for London Chess Classic 2016  ChessBase

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The Sinquefield Cup at the St. Louis Chess Club has come to an end with American Wesley So a half point ahead of the field. This win earns him $75,000 and 13 Grand Chess Tour points, which pushes him into clear first in the tour's standings with 30 points.

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Pestaño: Wesley hits big payday in Sinquefield
Sun.Star
WELSEY So won $75,000 after an undefeated performance in the recently concluded Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri. The tournament is named after Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield, founders of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis ...

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American Grandmaster Wins U.S. Tournament Stop on International Grand Chess Tour
PR Newswire (press release)
The 2016 Tour was created in partnership between the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (Sinquefield Cup) and Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess Classic). The legendary Garry Kasparov, one of the world's greatest ambassadors for ...
Wesley wins 2016 Sinquefield CupThe Manila Times

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Wesley wins 2016 Sinquefield Cup
The Manila Times
He will also be seeing action in the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour to be held in England on Decelber 9 to 18 with the staging of the London Chess Classic. The other invited players are Caruana, Nakamura, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Aronian, ...

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Cheering Olympians as I await the main event
Lowell Sun
Magnus Carlsen, of Norway, the current world chess champion and ranked number one in the world, seen prior to the start of the London Chess Classic tournament in London, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) (Alastair Grant). WASHINGTON ...

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Levon Aronian to participate in Sinquefield Cup 2016
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The Sinquefield Cup is the third of four stops on the 2016 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) – a circuit of international chess events featuring the world's elite chess talent, created in partnership between the CCSCSL, Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess ...

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Levon Aronian to participate in Sinquefield Cup 2016
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The Sinquefield Cup is the third of four stops on the 2016 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) – a circuit of international chess events featuring the world's elite chess talent, created in partnership between the CCSCSL, Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess ...

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2016 Sinquefield Cup Spotlights International Chess Competition in Saint Louis
Yahoo Finance
The Sinquefield Cup is the third of four stops on the 2016 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) - a circuit of international chess events featuring the world's elite chess talent, created in partnership between the CCSCSL, Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess ...
Wesley braces for 2016 Sinquefield CupThe Manila Times

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2016 Sinquefield Cup Spotlights International Chess Competition in Saint Louis
PR Newswire (press release)
The Sinquefield Cup is the third of four stops on the 2016 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) - a circuit of international chess events featuring the world's elite chess talent, created in partnership between the CCSCSL, Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess ...

Wesley braces for 2016 Sinquefield Cup
The Manila Times
The final leg will be on December 8 to 19 with the staging of the London Chess Classic in England. After the Sinquefield Cup, So will be proceeding to Baku, Azerbaijan to lead the US Chess Federation team in the prestigious 2016 World Chess Olympiad on ...

Roeland Pruijssers wins 10th Leiden Open  Chessbase News

The Leiden Chess Tournament was into its tenth year and the organizers decided to spice things up by inviting the Dutch GM Loek van Wely to participate in the ...

The Blindfold King vs The Machine  Chessbase News

Later this year GM Timur Gareyev will try play 47 opponents simultaneously, blindfold, breaking the current world record of 46 games. Neuroscientists found this ...

Malay Mail Online
Chess formats: What does the future look like?
Malay Mail Online
For the less informed, the Grand Chess Tour was originally three major events ― Norway Chess, Sinquefield Cup, and The London Chess Classic ― which came together to award prizes for its overall winners and was seen by some to be an alternative to the ...

Anand finishes fourth in Leuven
ESPN
The remaining two legs of the tour will be held in Saint Louis, USA from August 4-16 (Sinquefield Cup) and London from December 8-19 (London Chess Classic). In the nine-round rapid event, Anand got off to a good start with wins over Veselin Topalov, ...

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Grand Ambitions for Chess
Huffington Post
Last year also saw the launch of the Grand Chess Tour - a year-long competition combining three established tournaments (Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup and the London Chess Classic) with a total prize fund of $1.05 million — $300,000 for each ...

Pestaño: Grand chess tour and Gashimov memorial
Sun.Star
9 Ding Liren of China; the London Chess Classic hasn't chosen a player yet. The first leg is set to take place from June 9-12 at La Maison de la Chimie in Paris, France. The total prize fund is $150,000. The Participants are Levon Aronian, Fabiano ...

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PR Newswire (press release)
2016 Grand Chess Tour Starts in Paris, France and Leuven, Belgium
PR Newswire (press release)
SAINT LOUIS, June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2016 Grand Chess Tour starts June 9th with back to back tournaments in Paris, France and Leuven, Belgium. The four-stop international chess tour features the world's elite chess players, and this year, the ...

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Viktor Korchnoi obituary  The Guardian

Viktor Korchnoi, who has died aged 85, was a chess grandmaster who defected from the Soviet Union, then twice challenged the USSR's Anatoly Karpov for the ...

Chess: India's Baskaran Adhiban only gets half rations at Hasselbacken Open in Stockholm  Telegraph.co.uk

Baskaran Adhiban of India is a rising star in the chess world and he deserves better luck after sharing first place on 7.