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Malay Mail Online
On Chess: Super-tournament Sinquefield Cup to become part of prestigious ...
St. Louis Public Radio
The Grand Chess Tour links the organizational efforts behind the Sinquefield Cup with those backing the London Chess Classic and Norway Chess, together setting a new model for player conditions, prize funds and a full-blown spectator experience.
Sometimes, it is not even about the gameMalay Mail Online

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Malay Mail Online
Sometimes, it is not even about the game
Malay Mail Online
For 2015 these will be the existing Norway Chess in Stavanger, Norway from June 15-26, Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, USA from August 21 to September 3 and London Chess Classic in London, England from December 3-14, all with a US$300,000 (RM1 ...

The Daily Telegram
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
The Daily Telegram
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...

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Cheboygan Daily Tribune
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
Cheboygan Daily Tribune
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...

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Wesley So out of $1M-plus Grand Chess Tour  Inquirer.net

The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour  Business Insider Australia

Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. LouisFormer World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (left) and Grandmaster Nigel Short in St. Louis. If you had any doubt ...

Wesley So out of $1M-plus Grand Chess Tour  Inquirer.net

LAS VEGAS — Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France was added April 26 as ninth and last player in the super chess circuit starting June 15, which ...

Corning Leader
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
Corning Leader
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...
Grand Chess Tour announcedTelegraph.co.uk
Wesley So out of $1M-plus Grand Chess TourInquirer.net
Million Dollar Chess SeriesPurple Pawn

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Washington Times-Reporter
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
Washington Times-Reporter
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...

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Sentinel-Standard
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
Sentinel-Standard
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...

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Coldwater Daily Reporter
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour
Coldwater Daily Reporter
The three tournaments that will make up the tour are Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup (held at the club in St. Louis), and the London Chess Classic. These are premier invitational events that attract the world's best. For the 2015 cycle, the Grand ...

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Inquirer.net
Wesley So out of $1M-plus Grand Chess Tour
Inquirer.net
Called the Grand Chess Tour, the circuit will feature the Norway Chess set in Stanger June 15-26, the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis, August 21 to September 3 and the London Chess Classic, December 3-14. The world's top chess players, including world ...
The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tourWashington Times-Reporter

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Telegraph.co.uk
Grand Chess Tour announced
Telegraph.co.uk
A new collaboration between the London Chess Classic, Norway Chess and the Sinquefield Cup was announced at at St Louis, Missouri, on Friday, with the advent of the 2015 Grand Chess Tour. The three tournaments have already signed up eight of the ...
Wesley So out of $1M-plus Grand Chess TourInquirer.net
Million Dollar Chess SeriesPurple Pawn

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The world's top chess players have just formed a new $1 million professional tour  Business Insider

If you had any doubt that chess has gone big time in the era of current World Champion Magnus Carlsen, you won't anymore.

Million Dollar Chess Series
Purple Pawn
Three major Chess events are teaming up in a new tournament series with a total prize fund of just over a million dollars. The Grand Chess Tour will consist of Norway Chess in June, the Sinquefield Cup (St. Louis) in August, and the London Chess ...

St. Louis Public Radio
New world-wide chess tour announced in St. Louis
St. Louis Public Radio
The Grand Chess Tour will unify the Sinquefield Cup, Norway Chess and the London Chess Classic in one circuit. The three tournaments will include players at the highest level of play. Kasparov inspired the tour and hopes it will increase chess's ...

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Inaugural Grand Chess Tour Unveiled In Saint Louis
Virtual Press Office (press release)
The Grand Chess Tour is an affiliation between the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (Sinquefield Cup), Tower AS (Norway Chess) and Chess Promotions Ltd. (London Chess Classic), combining the organizational efforts of three elite events ...

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Norway Chess blir tidenes sterkeste sjakkturnering
Aftenposten
I tillegg til Norway Chess er Sinquefield Cup i Saint Louis USA og London Chess Classic med på i touren. Vår mal skal brukes også i de to andre deltakerbyene. Det sier meg at vi har gjort mye riktig, sier styremedlem Benedicte Westre Skog. Spillerne ...

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Sjakkverdens tungvektere til Norway Chess: Sjekk hvem som kommer
Rogalands Avis
Den tredje er London Chess Classic i London de to første ukene i desember. Neste år skal turneringen utvides til Jakarta, Indonesia. – Målet er at vi alltid skal være blant topp tre-turneringene i verden, slår Madland fast. Følges av millioner i hele ...
Norway Chess blir tidenes sterkeste sjakkturneringAftenposten

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Telegraph.co.uk
Magnus Carlsen tops bill for new $1m Grand Chess Tour
Telegraph.co.uk
The pair took centre stage at the announcement, alongside Telegraph chess correspondent Malcolm Pein and representatives from Norway Chess and the St Louis Chess Club. Mr Pein, the organiser of the London Chess Classic, said the difference between ...
Inaugural Grand Chess Tour Unveiled In Saint LouisVirtual Press Office (press release)

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