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USA favourites as Olympiad set to begin in Batumi - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - September 19, 2018 - 3:56pm

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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 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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

Grand Chess Tour News - 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 ...
Vishwanathan Anand not worried about his form going into World Chess OlympiadSportsCafe

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

Grand Chess Tour News - September 15, 2018 - 9:38am

Times of India

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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Chess960 Showdown 4: Svidler the nearly man - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - September 15, 2018 - 2:00am
Chess960 Showdown 4: Svidler the nearly man  chess24

On a final day with little intrigue in most of the matches, Peter Svidler came closest – both to beating Hikaru Nakamura, and to getting the chess960 position ...

2018 Chess Calendar - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - September 15, 2018 - 2:00am
2018 Chess Calendar  chess24

We're going to be spoiled for chess in 2018, with the Candidates Tournament in March deciding Magnus Carlsen's challenger for a match in November...

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