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Paris Grand Chess Tour Blitz: Karjakin Takes Over
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With one day of blitz to go at the Paris Grand Chess Tour, Sergey Karjakin is one point ahead of Hikaru Nakamura. Wesley So, who lost two games today, is half a point further down. Today the Paris tournament switched to the blitz time control of five ...
Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after ninth round ...Firstpost
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The “Your Next Move” Grand Chess Tour event in Leuven, Belgium, had a very exciting finish. Wesley So held a two-point lead after six rounds of rapids, which he expanded to three points after nine rounds. Now it was time for 18 rounds of blitz. All ...
Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after ninth round, Viswanathan Anand retains shared fourth placeFirstpost
Chess: Hot streak continues, as Wesley So rules Paris rapid competitionABS-CBN News
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Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after ninth round, Viswanathan Anand retains shared fourth place
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On the final day of Rapid chess at the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour, Viswanathan Anand scored only one point to finish tied for the fourth place. In his three games of the day, Anand scored two draws and lost a game to Hikaru Nakamura in the ...

Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after ninth round, Viswanathan Anand retains shared fourth place  Firstpost

GCT Paris: So takes slim margin to blitz  Chessbase News

Another single round-robin of rapid chess was completed in Paris over the past three days. This weekend the French capital hosts a double-round blitz ...

Ivory Coast to host major African tournament  Chessbase News

An unprecedented rapid & blitz invitational tournament is being organised in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Ten players from ten different African countries will participate ...

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So 1st In Rapid At Paris Grand Chess Tour
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Despite drawing all his games today Wesley So retained his lead at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. Before the start of the blitz, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura are trailing him by just one point. "So" mostly stood for "solid" today, as the tournament ...
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Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after day 2; Vishwanathan Anand tied for fourth
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From Leuven, the Grand Chess Tour moved to the 'city of love', the French capital of Paris. As in Leuven, nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games are scheduled to be played over four days. Time control for the rapid games is 25 minutes per player ...

So 1st In Rapid At Paris Grand Chess Tour  Chess.com

So 1st In Rapid At Paris Grand Chess Tour  Chess.com

Despite drawing all his games today, Wesley So retained his lead at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. Before the start of the blitz, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru ...

Chess: Wesley So grabs lead in Paris, vaults to world No. 2 in rapid play  ABS-CBN News

With 2 wins and a draw on Thursday, the Cavite-born player who now represents Team USA zoomed from world No. 14 to No. 2.

Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after day 2; Vishwanathan Anand tied for fourth  Firstpost

From Leuven, the Grand Chess Tour moved to the 'city of love', the French capital of Paris. As in Leuven, nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games are ...

Grand Chess Tour Paris: Wesley So leads after day 2; Vishwanathan Anand tied for fourth  Firstpost

From Leuven, the Grand Chess Tour moved to the 'city of love', the French capital of Paris. As in Leuven, nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games are ...

Paris GCT, Day 2: So takes the lead  chess24

Wesley So leads the rapid section of the Paris Grand Chess Tour after scoring two wins and a draw on Thursday. Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin sh...

So 1st In Rapid At Paris Grand Chess Tour  Chess.com

Despite drawing all his games today, Wesley So retained his lead at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. Before the start of the blitz, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru ...

Chess: Wesley So among the early leaders in elite Paris tournament  ABS-CBN News

*Fresh* off topping a tournament in Belgium, So continued to display top form, sharing the lead after 3 rounds in the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour.

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Paris Grand Chess Tour Day 2: So Takes The Lead
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Wesley So has a slim lead going into the final day of rapid at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. On Thursday the Leuven winner scored 2.5/3, and is chased by Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin. At noon, two hours earlier than the first day, the second triplet ...

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Chess: Wesley So among the early leaders in elite Paris tournament
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The Grand Chess Tour, a 5-leg competition among 10 elite players, offers $1.2 million in prize money. So, 24, ruled the 2016 GCT and in the process vaulted to as high as No. 2 in the world rankings behind reigning champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway.

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On Chess: 'Grand' chess exhibition from St. Louis travels to Belgium
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For the second year, the World Chess Hall of Fame has organized "Grand Chess Tour: Art of Chess 2018," a traveling exhibition of chess artifacts, in conjunction with the Grand Chess Tour, an international circuit of chess events with the world's best ...

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On Chess: 'Grand' chess exhibition from St. Louis travels to Belgium ...
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For the second year, the World Chess Hall of Fame has organized "Grand Chess Tour: Art of Chess 2018," a traveling exhibition of chess artifacts,

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