2016 Champions Showdown

So lurks at No.4 in Paris Grand Chess Tour
The Manila Times
The 23-year-old Cavite City pride goes for crucial victories in the remaining rounds when he battles GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the seventh, defending champion GM Hikaru Nakamura of US in the eighth and GM Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the final ...

Amerikansk ekspert roser Carlsen og kritiserer de andre: – Magnus er den ...
Adresseavisen
Carlsen slo først Wesley So og Veselin Topalov, før han nøyde seg med remis mot Hikaru Nakamura i dagens siste parti. Dermed leder Carlsen turneringen med 10 av 12 poeng. Nakamura følger nærmest med 9 poeng. I hurtigsjakken får spillerne 2 poeng for ...
Carlsen slo So og Topalov i hurtigsjakkRomsdals Budstikke
Carlsen herjer i ParisNRK
Carlsen slo So i hurtigsjakkTV 2
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Amerikansk ekspert roser Carlsen og kritiserer de andre: – Magnus er den ...
Aftenposten
Carlsen slo først Wesley So og Veselin Topalov, før han nøyde seg med remis mot Hikaru Nakamura i dagens siste parti. Dermed leder Carlsen turneringen med 10 av 12 poeng. Nakamura følger nærmest med 9 poeng. I hurtigsjakken får spillerne 2 poeng for ...
Carlsen slo So og Topalov i hurtigsjakkFramtid i Nord
Carlsen leder hurtigsjakken i ParisRomsdals Budstikke
Carlsen slo So i hurtigsjakkFolkebladet
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Carlsen slo So og Topalov i hurtigsjakk
Sunnmørsposten
I partiet etter var det bulgareren Veselin Topalov som var motstander. Carlsen med hvite brikker denne gangen hadde hele tiden er lite overtak, men i sitt 29. trekk flyttet bulgareren dronningen sin til B1 og sjakket. Det trekket ble ødeleggende, og ...
Carlsen slo So i hurtigsjakkTV 2
Carlsen slo tilbake med to seiere etter skuffelsen i Norway ChessDagbladet.no

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Carlsen slo So i hurtigsjakk
Sunnmørsposten
Den regjerende verdensmesteren hadde en dårlig turnering i Norway Chess i Stavanger, men har tydeligvis funnet storformen til Paris-turneringen i hurtig- og lynsjakk. I femte runde skal Carlsen ut mot Veselin Topalov fra Bulgaria. I den sjette runden ...
Carlsen slo tilbake med to seiere etter skuffelsen i Norway ChessDagbladet.no

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On Chess: Super-GM event has surprising result
KBIA
This year's edition held June 6 -16, had 10 players, including the “Big 3” American players: St. Louis resident Fabiano Caruana; 2017 PRO Chess League Champion with the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and reigning U.S. Champion Wesley So; and several time ...

On Chess: Super-GM event has surprising result
KBIA
... had 10 players, including the “Big 3” American players: St. Louis resident Fabiano Caruana; 2017 PRO Chess League Champion with the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and reigning U.S. Champion Wesley So; and several time U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura ...

On Chess: Super-GM event has surprising result
St. Louis Public Radio
But, the 2016 U.S. Champion had a huge impact on the event by beating fellow American Hikaru Nakamura in the last round which was Nakamura's only defeat in the event and Caruana's only win. This made Aronian the clear winner. Normally, at the very top ...

On Chess: Super-GM event has surprising result
St. Louis Public Radio
This year's edition held June 6 -16, had 10 players, including the “Big 3” American players: St. Louis resident Fabiano Caruana; 2017 PRO Chess League Champion with the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and reigning U.S. Champion Wesley So; and several time ...

So grabs share of lead in Paris chess tiff
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So jump-started his title defense by scoring 2.5 points and sharing the lead with Magnus Carlsen after three rounds of Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Rapid, the kickoff event of the Tour in Paris, France Wednesday night. So downed ...

So grabs share of lead in Paris chess tiff
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So jump-started his title defense by scoring 2.5 points and sharing the lead with Magnus Carlsen after three rounds of Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Rapid, the kickoff event of the Tour in Paris, France Wednesday night. So downed ...

So grabs share of lead in Paris chess tiff
Philippine Star
So downed fellow United States chesser Fabiano Caruana in the opening round, outlasted Frenchman Etienne Bacrot in the second and then blew a won game to settle for a marathon 82-move draw with Russian Alexander Grischuk in the third. The split ...

Carlsen slo tilbake med to seiere etter skuffelsen i Norway Chess
Dagbladet.no
Han ser ut til å slå raskt tilbake etter den skuffende innsatsen i Norway Chess. I likhet med amerikanske Wesley So har Carlsen 2,5 poeng, mens Hikaru Nakamura og Veselin Topalov har 2 poeng. Fabiano Caruana tapte alle sine tre partier onsdag og er ...

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Hold that afterthought: Armenia's Levon Aronian wins year's strongest chess tourney
Washington Times
GM Wesley So ran the table with nine disappointing draws, but GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura continued their rivalry with an entertaining last-round battle in which some Caruana home cooking cost Nakamura a chance to tie for first.

Hold that afterthought: Armenia's Levon Aronian wins year's strongest chess tourney
Washington Times
GM Wesley So ran the table with nine disappointing draws, but GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura continued their rivalry with an entertaining last-round battle in which some Caruana home cooking cost Nakamura a chance to tie for first.

Playing like an accountant?
BusinessWorld Online Edition
In round 5 of this Norway tournament there was the game Sergey Karjakin vs Fabiano Caruana which ended in a draw. Caruana got an inferior endgame right from the opening but managed to hold it. The online commentator Nigel Short said that Caruana's ...