2016 Champions Showdown

No Increment, No Problem For Nakamura, Dominguez
Chess.com
GM Hikaru Nakamura pressed a better position and a two-minute-to-one-minute clock advantage to squeeze a winning pin from GM Veselin Topalov. Those finishes mean that Nakamura and Dominguez enter tomorrow's G/20 games both with a five-point lead. Not ...

No Increment, No Problem For Nakamura, Dominguez
Chess.com
Photo: Mike Klein/Chess.com. GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Wesley So each had about 15 seconds remaining when So simply hung a knight fork. GM Hikaru Nakamura pressed a better position and a two-minute-to-one-minute clock advantage to squeeze a winning ...

Leinier Domínguez supera a oponente Wesley So en Champions Showdown
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... Wesley So (2788) e Hikaru Nakamura (2774), el chino Liren Ding (2774), el ruso Alexander Grischuk (2785) y el búlgaro Veselin Topalov (2749). El torneo consiste en una serie de cuatro matches, en el que Domínguez enfrentará a So, Caruana a Grischuk ...
Leinier Domínguez abre delante en el match contra Wesley So en torneo Showdown de ajedrezCiberCuba

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Cubano Domínguez aventaja a estadounidense So en Champions Showdown
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Completan el grupo de ocho atletas participantes en esta liza el campeón mundial noruego Magnus Carlsen (2837), los estadounidenses Fabiano Caruana (2794), Wesley So (2788) e Hikaru Nakamura (2774), el chino Liren Ding (2774), el ruso Alexander ...
Leinier cedió en Champions ShowdownACN DIGITAL (Comunicado de prensa)
Wesley So domina en las blitz a Leinier y vence de manera generalRadio Rebelde
Leinier y Nakamura: los más rápidos en San LuisGranma Internacional
Radio Ángulo -CiberCuba -Trabajadores de Cuba
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Cubano Domínguez aventaja a estadounidense So en Champions Showdown
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... Wesley So (2788) e Hikaru Nakamura (2774), el chino Liren Ding (2774), el ruso Alexander Grischuk (2785) y el búlgaro Veselin Topalov (2749). El torneo consiste en una serie de cuatro matches, en el que Domínguez enfrentará a So, Caruana a Grischuk ...
Remontada contrarrelojTrabajadores de Cuba
Wesley So derrota a Leinier Domínguez en tercera jornada del Showdown de ajedrezCiberCuba
Imbatible Lenier Domínguez en el Champions Showdown de EE.UU.Radio Ángulo
Granma Internacional -Radio Nuevitas -Radio Rebelde
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Olympic hockey legends, former rivals welcome baby
OlympicTalk (blog)
“Chess has centuries, even millenia of history, which esports, obviously, they don't,” Carlsen said by phone after competing in the Champions Showdown at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. “Personally, for me, it wouldn't make sense ...

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Leinier Domínguez abre delante en el match contra Wesley So en torneo Showdown de ajedrez
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Por su parte, el búlgaro Veselin Topalov también salió delante 2,5 a 1,5 frente al norteamericano Hikaru Nakamura. El italio-estadounidense Fabiano Caruana y el ruso Alexander Grischuk tienen 2 puntos cada uno. El match entre el noruego Magnus ...

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Carlsen-manager om VM i Saudi-Arabia: – Planen er at han skal spille
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I går publiserte den japanske sjakkstjernen Hikaru Nakamura følgende på Twitter: «Det å arrangere en sjakkturnering i et land der grunnleggende menneskerettigheter ikke er verdsatt er horribelt. Sjakk er et spill der alle typer mennesker kan komme ...
Kritiske til sjakk-VM i Saudi-Arabia: – GrusomtNRK

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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Week, November 10-15
Riverfront Times (blog)
Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Ray Robson and Sam Shankland, who all played for the 2016 American team, will attend the opening reception, which takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 10, at the World Chess Hall ...

The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Week, November 10-15
Riverfront Times (blog)
Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Ray Robson and Sam Shankland, who all played for the 2016 American team, will attend the opening reception, which takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 10, at the World Chess Hall ...

Leinier supera al estadounidense Wesley So en Champions Showdown de ajedrez
CubaDebate
En los otros dos duelos jugados este jueves el búlgaro Veselin Topalov también exhibe ventaja de 2,5-1,5 ante el norteamericano Hikaru Nakamura, mientras el local Fabiano Caruana y el ruso Alexander Grischuk van empatados a dos. El match estrella de ...
Camilo Gómez apuesta en el CasinoJuventud Rebelde
Marcha delante Leinier ante Wesley So en el Champions ShowdownRadio Rebelde

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Marcel Hirscher sets return from broken ankle
OlympicTalk (blog)
“Chess has centuries, even millenia of history, which esports, obviously, they don't,” Carlsen said by phone after competing in the Champions Showdown at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. “Personally, for me, it wouldn't make sense ...

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Paralympics decision on Russia expected by end of year
OlympicTalk (blog)
“Chess has centuries, even millenia of history, which esports, obviously, they don't,” Carlsen said by phone after competing in the Champions Showdown at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. “Personally, for me, it wouldn't make sense ...

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FIDE Criticised For Hosting World Rapid, Blitz In Saudi Arabia
Chess.com
Hikaru Nakamura was the first top grandmasters who spoke out against FIDE's decision. In a tweet he called it "horrible" and noted that "[c]hess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided ...

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No Increment, No Problem For Nakamura, Dominguez
Chess.com
In day one of the 2017 Champions Showdown, it was a case of addition by lack of addition. Despite the G/30 time control, the longest of the four days of play, the event's lack of increment already factored in to several games. First there was GM ...

No Increment, No Problem For Nakamura, Dominguez
Chess.com
GM Hikaru Nakamura pressed a better position and a two-minute-to-one-minute clock advantage to squeeze a winning pin from GM Veselin Topalov. Those finishes mean that Nakamura and Dominguez enter tomorrow's G/20 games both with a five-point ...

No Increment, No Problem For Nakamura, Dominguez
Chess.com
First there was GM Alexander Grischuk, up a queen and three pawns, drawing in round two against GM Fabiano Caruana when the Russian's flag fell. Then with all three matches level, in the final G/30 round, both day one leaders used their time advantages ...