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Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking - PanARMENIAN.Net - PanARMENIAN.Net

Nakamura - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 4:48am

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking - PanARMENIAN.Net
PanARMENIAN.Net
Leading the FIDE rankings is Norwegian genius Magnus Carlsen who has been topping the list for several years.

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Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking - PanARMENIAN.Net

Anand - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 4:41am

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking
PanARMENIAN.Net
Following Carlsen are Wesley So(U.S.), Fabiano Caruana (U.S.) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia,) Aronian, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan).

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking - PanARMENIAN.Net

Caruana - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 4:41am

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking
PanARMENIAN.Net
Following Carlsen are Wesley So(U.S.), Fabiano Caruana (U.S.) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia,) Aronian, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan).

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking - PanARMENIAN.Net

Nakamura - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 4:41am

Levon Aronian down to 9th spot on FIDE ranking
PanARMENIAN.Net
Following Carlsen are Wesley So(U.S.), Fabiano Caruana (U.S.) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia,) Aronian, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan).

Wanted To Win Gold, Says Harika Dronavalli After Winning Bronze at World Chess Championships - News18

Anand - Wed, 03/01/2017 - 9:19pm

News18

Wanted To Win Gold, Says Harika Dronavalli After Winning Bronze at World Chess Championships
News18
New Delhi: "I wanted to win Gold after two back-to-back Bronze medals," Indian grandmaster Harika Dronavalli told News18.com in an exclusive interview after winning the bronze medal at the World Women's Chess Championship in Tehran. Harika won her ...

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Fabiano Makes Forbes, Newspaper Editor Commits Blunder - Chess.com

Caruana - Wed, 03/01/2017 - 10:35am

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Fabiano Makes Forbes, Newspaper Editor Commits Blunder
Chess.com
"In Other News" has been a little bit of a hiatus, which means this column overflowing with chess tidbits to share. Today we have a world elite gracing a business magazine's "top" list, while a newspaper doesn't fact check that two elite sisters share ...

Sports historian Boria Majumdar to share unseen Indian sporting artefacts in new book - Asian Image

Anand - Wed, 03/01/2017 - 6:30am

Asian Image

Sports historian Boria Majumdar to share unseen Indian sporting artefacts in new book
Asian Image
Contemporary history and legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Abhinav Bindra, Sania Mirza, Viswanathan Anand and the exploits at the Paralympics 2016 also claim their space in this fascinating archive. Boria, who is also the co-author of Sachin Tendulkar's ...

Russia's Grischuk makes the right moves to win Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix chess title - Khaleej Times

Nakamura - Tue, 02/28/2017 - 9:33am

Khaleej Times

Russia's Grischuk makes the right moves to win Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix chess title
Khaleej Times
Finishing with 5 points each are, in tie break order, Ding Lliren of China, Michael Adams of England, Dmitry Jakovenko, Hikaru Nakamura of the USA and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, Ding Liren essayed the Open Catalan to draw with Aronian. Seeing that ...

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World Women's Chess Championship: Harika Dronavalli won bronze and shockingly, India didn't even cheer - Firstpost

Anand - Tue, 02/28/2017 - 7:10am

Firstpost

World Women's Chess Championship: Harika Dronavalli won bronze and shockingly, India didn't even cheer
Firstpost
Chess is perhaps one of the very few sports in which India has a host of dominating players like five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, and Pentala Harikrishna in the men's section, and Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli herself in the women's section.
My dream is to win gold medal: HarikaTelangana Today

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MORE SPORT - gulfnews.com

Nakamura - Mon, 02/27/2017 - 7:01am

MORE SPORT
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Sharjah: Alexander Grischuk of Russia downed erstwhile co-leader Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan to join Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France for the lead after the penultimate round of the Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix at the Sharjah Chess Club. Grischuk ...

Levon Aronian makes the eighth consecutive draw at Sharjah Grand Prix - Panorama.am

Nakamura - Mon, 02/27/2017 - 1:01am

Panorama.am

Levon Aronian makes the eighth consecutive draw at Sharjah Grand Prix
Panorama.am
The game of Round 8 of FIDE Grand Prix underway in Sharjah took place. In this round, Armenian GM Levon Aronian played against Hikaru Nakamura of the United States. A draw was agreed after 53 move, chess-results.com reports. After eight rounds ...

Kitajkin antišov - Večer

Caruana - Sun, 02/26/2017 - 5:00pm

Večer

Kitajkin antišov
Večer
Ameriška prevlada v šahovskem svetu se nadaljuje. Trojček vrhunskih velemojstrov, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, je nezaustavljiv. Zlata olimpijska kolajna (ekipi so dodali še Roya Robsona in Samuela Shanklanda) je prišla po dolgih ...

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Endgame Technique Yields Grischuk Shared First - Chess.com

Nakamura - Sun, 02/26/2017 - 11:46am

Chess.com

Endgame Technique Yields Grischuk Shared First
Chess.com
Levon Aronian vs Hikaru Nakamura was similar to "Nepo" vs MVL, with black defending a pawn-down rook endgame which was always close to a draw. The start was fun though: Aronian had found yet another position in the Queen's Gambit Declined where ...

Magnus Carlsen: la poética del riesgo o asesinar en el tablero - Milenio.com

Topalov - Sun, 02/26/2017 - 6:03am

Magnus Carlsen: la poética del riesgo o asesinar en el tablero
Milenio.com
Cuando en marzo de 2016 Sergey Karjakin ganó el torneo de candidatos —contra el indio Viswanathan Anand, el ruso Peter Svidler, los estadunidenses Fabiano Caruana y Hikaru Nakamura, el búlgaro Veselin Topalov, el holandés Anish Giri y el armenio ...

चौसष्ट घरांच्या विश्वविजेतेपदाच्या दावेदार - Loksatta

Anand - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 3:36pm

Loksatta

चौसष्ट घरांच्या विश्वविजेतेपदाच्या दावेदार
Loksatta
बुद्धिबळ हा आपला प्राचीन खेळ असला तरीही भारतात या खेळाचे युग निर्माण केले विश्वनाथन आनंद यानेच. विविध स्वरूपाच्या विश्वविजेतेपदावर पाच वेळा मोहोर उमटवीत खऱ्या अर्थाने या खेळातही ...

Wins For Li, Salem As Draw Fest Continues - Chess.com

Nakamura - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 12:20pm

Chess.com

Wins For Li, Salem As Draw Fest Continues
Chess.com
Hikaru Nakamura played 28 moves but had the luxury of using no less than 26 moves of prep to equalise against Ding. "I had prepared it a long, long time ago and I was able to remember the lines. When you're able to remember the lines things turn out ...

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Ukrainian in world final - Philippine Star

Nakamura - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 10:52am

Ukrainian in world final
Philippine Star
They were half-a-point ahead of American Hikaru Nakamura, British Mikey Adams and Russians Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk and Dmitry Joakovenko, while world No. 7 Levon Aronian of Armenia and Chinese women's world champion Hou Yifan ...

Women's World Chess Championship: When Harika Dronavalli showed the stuff champions are made of - Firstpost

Anand - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 2:16am

Firstpost

Women's World Chess Championship: When Harika Dronavalli showed the stuff champions are made of
Firstpost
When Viswanathan Anand was trailing by a point in his match against Boris Gelfand, the Indian champion couldn't sleep the entire night. In a recent interview, he said that he felt completely helpless and confessed to his wife that he was going to lose ...

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Aronian makes another draw in Sharjah Grand Prix - Panorama.am

Nakamura - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 1:27am

Panorama.am

Aronian makes another draw in Sharjah Grand Prix
Panorama.am
Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Dmitry Yakovenko, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander Grischuk have scored 3.5 points apiece and share 3-7 positions. Levon Aronian has 3 points and shares the 8th place. In Round 7 Armenian GM will compete with ...

Bolton School old boy Nigel Short proves he is still king of chess ... - This Is Lancashire

Caruana - Sat, 02/25/2017 - 12:06am

This Is Lancashire

Bolton School old boy Nigel Short proves he is still king of chess ...
This Is Lancashire
CHESS grandmaster Nigel Short proved he still had all the right moves when he went back to his old school - and took on 23 pupils simultaneously…

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