2016 Champions Showdown

Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz: Viswanathan Anand lacked incisiveness, but Garry Kasparov impressive throughout
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However, two losses in the immediate next rounds to the American duo Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura effectively grounded Anand's hopes. In the remaining six games, he scored five draws apart from a loss to Cuban Grand Master Leinier ...
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Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz: Viswanathan Anand lacked incisiveness, but Garry Kasparov impressive throughout
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Viswanathan Anand continued his poor run to score the same 3.5 points from his second leg of nine blitz games in the final day of the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event. Levon Aronian won the championship with a combined score of 24.5 points with an ...
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Aronian wins in style; Anand finishes ninth
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Anand, who started the day in the eighth place, opened with a victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi – his lone victory in the 18-round blitz section – but went on to lose to Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura in the next two rounds. Draws followed against ...
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Aronian wins in style; Anand finishes ninth
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Anand, who started the day in the eighth place, opened with a victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi – his lone victory in the 18-round blitz section – but went on to lose to Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura in the next two rounds. Draws followed against ...
Winless Anand stays with KasparovThe Hindu
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Aronian wins in style
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Anand, who started the day in the eighth place, opened with a victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi – his lone victory in the 18-round blitz section – but went on to lose to Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura in the next two rounds. Draws followed against ...
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Viswanathan Anand finishes in ninth place at Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz Chess meet
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Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand ended his run at the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz on a bleak note in the final phase of the blitz format on Friday to finish overall ninth in the tournament. Anand registered five draws, three losses and just the ...
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Chess Icon Kasparov promises winnings to Africa - Kawowo Sports
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Legendary Russian chess icon Garry Kasparov has vowed to offer his winnings at the world chess series to 33 FIDE affiliated African countries including ...

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Chess Icon Kasparov promises winnings to Africa
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He will face the current world champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), former world champion Viswanathan Anand (India), Nepomniachtchi (Russia), the USA duo of Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian (Armenia), ...
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Chess Legend Garry Kasparov Represents Croatia at Comeback Tournament in America
Croatia Week (press release) (blog)
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has come out of professional retirement for a one-off tournament in America – playing under the Russian and Croatian flag. Kasparov (54) was given a wild card to compete in the Rapid and Blitz tournament ...
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Chess Legend Garry Kasparov Represents Croatia at Comeback Tournament in America
Croatia Week (press release) (blog)
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has come out of professional retirement for a one-off tournament in America – playing under the Russian and Croatian flag. Kasparov (54) was given a wild card to compete in the Rapid and Blitz tournament ...

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Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz: Viswanathan Anand's poor run continues, ends hopes of podium finish
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St. Louis: Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint 8th place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament. File image of ...
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Winless Anand stays with Kasparov
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R4: drew with Liem Le Quang Liem (white); R3: drew with Hikaru Nakamura (black); R2: drew with Fabiano Caruana (white); R1: drew with Ian Nepomniachtchi (black). Standings (after nine rounds each of rapid and blitz): 1. Aronian (18.5), 2. Nakamura (16 ...
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Winless Anand stays with Kasparov
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R4: drew with Liem Le Quang Liem (white); R3: drew with Hikaru Nakamura (black); R2: drew with Fabiano Caruana (white); R1: drew with Ian Nepomniachtchi (black). Standings (after nine rounds each of rapid and blitz): 1. Aronian (18.5), 2. Nakamura (16 ...
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Garry Kasparov Returns, Briefly, to Chess
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(“Garry has said that he hasn't been doing anything different than before retiring,” the American Hikaru Nakamura told Chess.com prior to their first game together. “We all know that's not true.”) Karjakin countered with several offbeat moves of his ...

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Garry Kasparov Returns, Briefly, to Chess
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In the final round of the day, Kasparov played Fabiano Caruana, a former U.S. champion currently ranked third in the world. In person, Caruana is Kasparov's inverse—twenty-five years old, quiet and birdlike. But as a player, he shares several ...
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On Second Try, Aronian Gets St. Louis Win After All
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Aronian's final tally: 24.0/36 (equaling the winning score in the Paris Grant Chess Tour event) to best Karjakin's and GM Hikaru Nakamura's second place total of 21.5/36. For his part, Kasparov also recovered to string together some wins today. After ...
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Magnus Carlsen holds off Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to keep world No1 spot
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At one stage in the elite tournament in St Louis Carlsen's edge had diminished to under 10 points, a slim margin which could have disappeared in a single game, but his second-place finish, coupled with failures by his US rivals Fabiano Caruana and ...

Viswanathan Anand joint eighth after another bad day in St. Louis
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Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint 8th place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament here. Having garnered just seven ...
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Viswanathan Anand stays joint eighth in St Louis blitz tournament
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Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint 8th place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament in St.Louis. Having garnered just ...
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