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Vladimir Kramnik enjoyed the white pieces for the second day in a row at the Zurich Chess Challenge, this time taking on the world champion Vishy Anand.
With one eye on the crucial Candidates tournament in London starting in less than 3 weeks tim... | Read More
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The pairings for the opening round of the Zurich Chess Challenge pitted Fabiano Caruana against Vishy Anand, and Vladimir Kramnik against Boris Gelfand.
Italian-American Caruana had already faced the world champion twice this month in Baden-Baden... | Read More
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Fabiano Caruana won an opening double-round robin blitz competition on the eve of the Zurich Chess Challenge, just beating Vladimir Kramnik in the final standings.
The blitz contest came as something of a surprise since there were no hints on the... | Read More
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World Champion Vishy Anand aims to repeat his recent success in the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden when he takes part in the Zurich Chess Challenge 2013 from 23 Feb - 1 March.
The Zurich tournament is a 4-player double round-robin featuring ... | Read More
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While Vishy Anand was winning the 6-player double round-robin Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden recently, a 9-round Swiss competition was taking place alongside the main event.
The winner was top seeded Etienne Bacrot (pictured) of France with ... | Read More
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The 2013 Reykjavik Open is underway in Iceland, featuring more than 30 Grandmasters in a 10-round Open Swiss competition.
The top seed is the young Dutch star Anish Giri, followed by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France and David Navara of the Czech ... | Read More
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Over the course of many years, the Aeroflot Open in Moscow established itself as one of the biggest and strongest Open tournaments in the world.
Sadly, the 2013 edition of the event held from 12-17 February had a completely revised format. Inste... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Anand wins the GRENKE Chess Classic
The World Champion has won his first classical tournament in almost five years after an enthralling final day’s play in Baden-Baden. It started fast with Anand and Naiditsch blitzing out a rook... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Round 9 - Anand catches Caruana
The script of the GRENKE Chess Classic had seemed to be carved in stone – a single decisive game a day, the World Champion struggling to win and Caruana surviving scares on his way to an inevitable... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Round 8 - History Repeats Itself.
Fabiano Caruana has taken a huge stride towards winning the inaugural GRENKE Chess Classic by once again defeating Arkadij Naiditsch from a lost position. Viswanathan Anand was unable to match the ... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE Round 7: Meier claims first win
There was no love lost between the GRENKE Chess Classic players on Valentine’s Day, with tense fights on all three boards. It was only long after the first time control that Caruana-Anand and Adams-... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Round 6 “The guy’s on fire – he’s been like this for weeks!” That was World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Arkadij Naiditsch, who today overwhelmed Daniel Fridman with a brilliant sacrificial attack to move into second plac... | Read More
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It's official! Rising stars GM Alexander Ipatov and GM Marc Arnold are confirmed to participate in Chess.com's 12th Blitz Death Match, set to take place Saturday, March 30th, at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern. The two young s... | Read More
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The Moscow Open 2013, held as part of the Moscow International Chess Festival was won by Russian grandmaster Boris Savchenko. In a complex final round game, he prevailed over his compatriot Pavel Ponkratov. That win allowed Savchenko to score 7½/... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Round 5
The GRENKE Chess Classic reached the mid-way point on Rosenmontag, the highlight of the German Carnival season, and a day when paupers can traditionally trade places with kings. It seemed the same might happen on the stage,... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE - Round 4: Where would we be without Arkadij Naiditsch? For the third day in a row his game saw a dramatic time scramble and the only decisive result on the stage of the GRENKE Chess Classic. On this occasion he emerged victorious, w... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: For the second day in a row Arkadij Naiditsch lit up the stage of the GRENKE Chess Classic, but on this occasion it was his opponent Fabiano Caruana who was the last man standing after a brutal time scramble.
Elsewhere Viswanathan ... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: Arkadij Naiditsch emerged victorious after a rollercoaster 7-hour game that saw the German no. 1 and Mickey Adams jockey for the initiative. That game overshadowed the sharp contest between Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana, whe... | Read More
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Fabiano Caruana opened with a win in the first round of the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden.
The Italian-American won a fine game against Georg Meier to take an early lead in this 6-player double round-robin competition.
World Champion Vishy... | Read More
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International Master Benjamin Bok won the 11th Chess.com Blitz Death Match, beating Grandmaster Robin Van Kampen in a thrilling contest by the narrowest possible margin! The final score was Bok 13½, Van Kampen 12½.
The match was held on Satur... | Read More
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The full line-up for the new super-tournament to be held from 7-18 May 2013 in Stavanger, Norway has been announced, and it's an incredibly impressive list!
The tournament is called simply Norway Chess 2013, and the #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen from ... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: The Baden-Baden Chess Centre and fans of top-class chess eagerly await the 1st GRENKE Chess Classic.
The double round-robin runs from 7th - 17th February and will pit three of the world’s top grandmasters, including World Champio... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE: The opening round of was not easy for several of the main Russian Cup favourites.
Multiple winner of Cup events Denis Khismatullin, and last season's winner of the Top Leagues of the Russian Women Championships Baira Kovanova, both... | Read More
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The International Chess Festival Moscow Open 2013 runs from the 31st January - 10th February at the Russian State Social University. This huge chess festival consists of nine tournaments:
Tournament A – Men’s Cup of Russia Tournament B – W... | Read More
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The 9th Pan-American Team Chess Championships took place from 24-30 January in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Pan American Continental Championship is an official FIDE event which serves as a qualification stage for the World Team Championships.
Teams f... | Read More