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Batumi 2018, 3: USA set up India showdown - chess24

September 27, 2018 - 2:00am
Batumi 2018, 3: USA set up India showdown  chess24

Wesley So won a third game in a row while Jorden van Foreest self-destructed as the USA beat the Netherlands 3:1 in the biggest match-up so far in Batumi.

Batumi 2018, 2: Uzbekistan shock Russia - chess24

September 26, 2018 - 2:00am
Batumi 2018, 2: Uzbekistan shock Russia  chess24

31st seeds Uzbekistan defeated women's gold medal favourites Russia as the 2018 Batumi Olympiad got serious in Round 2. Some big names were back,...

Batumi 2018, 1: Isolated heroes - chess24

September 25, 2018 - 2:00am
Batumi 2018, 1: Isolated heroes  chess24

Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Ding Liren, Vishy Anand, MVL and more stars were rested for Round 1 of the Batumi Olympiad, ...

USA favourites as Olympiad set to begin in Batumi - chess24

September 22, 2018 - 2:00am
USA favourites as Olympiad set to begin in Batumi  chess24

The 43rd Chess Olympiad starts this weekend, with 1600 players descending on Batumi, Georgia for the biggest event in chess. The surprise this ye...

Brand New Indian Super Tournament Announced - Chess.com

September 21, 2018 - 4:57am

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Brand New Indian Super Tournament Announced
Chess.com
The tournament format is similar to what is used in the Grand Chess Tour: three days of rapid chess and two days of blitz. The location is the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Kolkata, India. The participants are a mix of international top ...

New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India' - Chess.com

September 21, 2018 - 2:00am
New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India'  Chess.com

A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament. Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new ...

New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India' - Chess.com

September 21, 2018 - 2:00am
New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India'  Chess.com

A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament. Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new ...

New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India' - Chess.com

September 21, 2018 - 2:00am
New Tournament Announced: 'Tata Steel Chess India'  Chess.com

A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament. Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new ...

On Chess: Champions showdown shines spotlight on Chess960 - St. Louis Public Radio

September 20, 2018 - 2:00am
On Chess: Champions showdown shines spotlight on Chess960  St. Louis Public Radio

The opening is considered by many to be a sacred part of chess. Over the course of chess history, an enormous amount of theory has been developed covering.

Carlsen: “I hope Caruana is feeling the pressure!” - chess24

September 19, 2018 - 3:56pm

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Carlsen: “I hope Caruana is feeling the pressure!”
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With less than two months to go before the 2018 World Championship match begins in London, Magnus Carlsen spoke to Norwegian media at his training camp in the Kragerø Resort southwest of Oslo. He was hoping the pressure of playing a match for the ...

Carlsen: “I hope Caruana is feeling the pressure!” - chess24

September 19, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen: “I hope Caruana is feeling the pressure!”  chess24

With less than two months to go before the 2018 World Championship match begins in London, Magnus Carlsen spoke to Norwegian media at his training camp ...

13 Chess Stories You May Have Missed - Chess.com

September 18, 2018 - 2:00am
13 Chess Stories You May Have Missed  Chess.com

The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess ...

Maghsoodloo crushes World Junior Championship - chess24

September 18, 2018 - 2:00am
Maghsoodloo crushes World Junior Championship  chess24

Just after his 18th birthday Parham Maghsoodloo from Iran announced his arrival on the world stage by bulldozing his way to the World Junior Championship ...

Arianne Caoili to bike through Cilicia to support Armenian children - Chessbase News

September 17, 2018 - 2:00am
Arianne Caoili to bike through Cilicia to support Armenian children  Chessbase News

While Levon Aronian is fighting the chess elite in arduous events, his wife Arianne Caoili is engaged in various entrepreneurial and philanthropic initiatives in ...

Maghsoodloo Wins World Junior Title With Stunning Performance - Chess.com

September 17, 2018 - 2:00am
Maghsoodloo Wins World Junior Title With Stunning Performance  Chess.com

Stunning the chess world with a 9.5/10 score before losing in the last round, Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the World Junior Championship in Gebze, ...

Jan's Opening Clinic 22 - chess24

September 17, 2018 - 2:00am
Jan's Opening Clinic 22  chess24

German no. 2 Jan Gustafsson will be coaching the Dutch men's team at the upcoming Olympiad, but you don't need to be Anish Giri to get some opening...

What Is The Worst Chess Move? - Chess.com

September 17, 2018 - 2:00am
What Is The Worst Chess Move?  Chess.com

Chess openings have been analyzed for centuries and yet even today it is still not easy to identify the best and worst first moves. According to Fischer, 1.e4 is ...

What Is The Worst Chess Move? - Chess.com

September 17, 2018 - 1:22am

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What Is The Worst Chess Move?
Chess.com
Chess openings have been analyzed for centuries and yet even today it is still not easy to identify the best and worst first moves. According to Fischer, 1.e4 is "best by test." From the other side, when the famous theoretician GM Ernst Gruenfeld was ...

Viswanathan Anand not worried about own form ahead of Chess Olympiad - Times of India

September 16, 2018 - 2:00am
Viswanathan Anand not worried about own form ahead of Chess Olympiad  Times of India

Chess News: "Generally, these days my form wobbles a lot more. I have noticed though that most players suffer from the same phenomenon. No one is able to ...

Viswanathan Anand not worried about own form ahead of Chess Olympiad - Times of India

September 15, 2018 - 9:38am

Times of India

Viswanathan Anand not worried about own form ahead of Chess Olympiad
Times of India
He finished the Grand Chess Tour 2018 - a combination of blitz, rapid and classical time-control tournaments comprising four major events - in last place, with only 15 points. His last tournament victory came in March at the Tal Memorial rapid ...
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