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Is All Fair In Chess? - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 22, 2018 - 2:00am
Is All Fair In Chess?  Chess.com

A well-known saying states that all is fair in love and war. Our beloved game is actually both love and war. While it is pretty obvious that chess is a war on 64 ...

Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Tomorrow - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 21, 2018 - 4:37am

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Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Tomorrow
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The Grand Chess Tour doesn't fit Magnus Carlsen's schedule this year, which gives him the opportunity to play some other tournaments. Those include the European Club Cup in the fall, and the Biel Chess Festival in the summer. Carlsen played in Biel six ...

Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 21, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday  Chess.com

For the first time in six years, Magnus Carlsen is playing in Biel again. He tops the field and will compete with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ...

Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 21, 2018 - 2:00am
Carlsen Tops Biel Field, Starting Sunday  Chess.com

For the first time in six years, Magnus Carlsen is playing in Biel again. He tops the field and will compete with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ...

New video series and recommendation system - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 20, 2018 - 2:00am
New video series and recommendation system  chess24

Jan Gustafsson's latest video series, “A repertoire against 1.Nf3, 1.c4 and 1.g3,” has just been released. Although a standalone series, it could also be thought of ...

Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 5 - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 19, 2018 - 2:00am
Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 5  chess24

Though we all tune into Jan's Opening Clinic for the words of chess opening wisdom of Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, in part 5 of the 20th edition the...

Dortmund 2018, 3: Duda strikes again as Giri loses - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 18, 2018 - 3:04am

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Dortmund 2018, 3: Duda strikes again as Giri loses
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Nf3 Nf6!? a relatively rare line of the Sicilian only championed at the very top level recently by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who played it in the recent Grand Chess Tour events and in Tata Steel earlier this year. Giri immediately sank into a six-minute ...

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14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 12, 2018 - 10:10am

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14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund
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Giri's last over-the-board tournament, the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour in Leuven, didn't go so great. He does enter Dortmund with a positive feeling (and an extra $1,000 in his pocket) because on Tuesday he won the Speed Chess Championship open ...

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14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 12, 2018 - 2:00am
14th World Champion Kramnik, Giri Favorites As Top Chess Returns In Dortmund  Chess.com

Top classical chess returns this Saturday with the start of the Dortmund super tournament. "Mr. Dortmund," Vladimir Kramnik, is again the top seed, but Anish Giri ...

So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 9, 2018 - 9:26am

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So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes
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The players were the world's youngest grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Leuven Grand Chess Tour winner Wesley So, and both a rising star and an experienced grandmaster from Spain: Jaime Santos and Paco Vallejo. As always, the ...
Wesley So defends his Leon Masters titlechess24

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So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 9, 2018 - 2:00am
So Retains Leon Title But Pragg Had Him On Ropes  Chess.com

Wesley So retained his Leon Masters title after beating Paco Vallejo in the final. This was despite Friday, when the American was close to getting eliminated by ...

Wesley So defends his Leon Masters title - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 9, 2018 - 2:00am
Wesley So defends his Leon Masters title  chess24

The Philippines born US star Wesley So has won his second consecutive Leon Masters after needing tiebreaks to beat Spanish no. 1 Paco Vallejo in th...

Leon Masters 2: Vallejo has two lives - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 8, 2018 - 2:00am
Leon Masters 2: Vallejo has two lives  chess24

Spanish no. 1 Francisco Vallejo mounted a comeback against Jaime Santos to win the second semifinal of the 2018 Leon Masters and earn a match again...

So beats Pragg by the slimmest margin in Leon - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - July 7, 2018 - 2:00am
So beats Pragg by the slimmest margin in Leon  Chessbase News

The second youngest grandmaster in history, R. Praggnanandhaa came close to beating the second highest rated rapid player in the world Wesley So in the first ...

Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus? - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 6, 2018 - 2:00am
Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus?  Chess.com

The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the ...

Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus? - Chess.com

Grand Chess Tour News - July 6, 2018 - 2:00am
Will Fabiano Caruana Beat King Magnus?  Chess.com

The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the ...

Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 3 - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 5, 2018 - 2:00am
Jan's Opening Clinic 20: Part 3  chess24

In Season 20, Episode 3 of Jan's Opening Clinic, Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson once again sets out to cure the chess opening ailments of chess24 Premi...

Path to Gold recounts U.S. Olympiad team story - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - July 4, 2018 - 2:00am
Path to Gold recounts U.S. Olympiad team story  Chessbase News

It's Independence Day in the United States, and therefore a day for cookouts, celebrating and fireworks. Or, why not take in a film? In this case, you only need ...

FIDE presidential race is all set - Chessbase News

Grand Chess Tour News - July 4, 2018 - 2:00am
FIDE presidential race is all set  Chessbase News

During the next Chess Olympiad, a new president will be elected at the FIDE Congress. That much became clear after Kirsan Ilyumzhinov officially withdrew his ...

Nepo and Naiditsch lead in Jerusalem - chess24

Grand Chess Tour News - July 4, 2018 - 2:00am
Nepo and Naiditsch lead in Jerusalem  chess24

Ian Nepomniachtchi took the lead on 3/4 in the Gideon Japhet Cup in Jerusalem, after winning both his mini-matches against Vassily Ivanchuk and B...

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