2016 Champions Showdown

Magnus Carlsen retains title despite Sergey Karjakin's stubborn resistance
The Guardian
I would also point a finger at Carlsen's three-hour online blitz match against Hikaru Nakamura on 27 October as hardly ideal preparation for a classical contest. But overall the result was right. Carlsen is the world No1, Karjakin, even after gaining ...
Norwegian beats Karjakin in tiebreaker to win third title in a rowChandigarh Tribune

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Magnus Carlsen clinches third consecutive World Chess Championship: Here's how he did it
Firstpost
24-year-old American Fabiano Caruana has been a difficult opponent for Carlsen to face in the past, so has been the Armenian genius Levon Aronian. Even Sergey Karjakin with the experience of this match will be a dangerous adversary in the future.
Magnus Carlsen Wins Chess Championship With SpeedNew York Magazine
Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Successfully Defends His Title In Thrilling FinaleHuffington Post

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On Chess: How a little faith and a move to St. Louis created a Grandmaster
St. Louis Public Radio
In January 2010, I played in the Delhi International Grandmaster Open, my first major tournament. I was 10 years old and brimming with optimism and hope, having started playing chess a few months earlier on my visit to India. In the first round, I ...

Norwegian beats Karjakin in tiebreaker to win third title in a row
Chandigarh Tribune
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen extended his dominance over the chess world by winning the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive time, beating his Russian challenger Sergei Karjakin in a tiebreaker. The win puts Carlsen closer to the status of ...

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Surveillance: Modi's Cash Move Is Radical, Rogoff Says
Bloomberg
Also, Harvard's Nicholas Burns says President-elect Donald Trump should align himself with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Finally, chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana says Magnus Carlsen's opponents can never recover, once the current world chess ...

Computer-era chess players: Supercomputers sans emotions
Hindustan Times
While discussing a match against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, he wrote that a clash between players weaned on computers would be decided on the one factor that computers lack — emotions. The Carlsen and Karjakin match showed that players of the ...

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In a Marathon of Tiebreakers, Magnus Carlsen Wins World Chess Championship
New York Magazine
He holds the record for being the world's youngest grandmaster at 12 years and 7 months old and won the 2016 Candidates Tournament over top-ranked American Fabiano Caruana. Reports have swirled that Putin has been avidly following his progress in ...

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Former IRS officer Praveen Mahajan becomes first woman president of AITA
Firstpost
In the other games of the day, Vladimir Kramnik beat his arch rival Veselin Topalov from the white side of a fianchetto Grunfeld. Since their World Championship match in 2006, Kramnik and Topalov have ceased to shake hands before and after the game.

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Former IRS officer Praveen Mahajan becomes first woman president ...
Firstpost
Senior bureaucrat Praveen Mahajan on Thursday became the first woman President of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), replacing veteran administrator ...

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Norwegian Carlsen wins third World Chess Championship
Chandigarh Tribune
The Norwegian, who turned 26 on Wednesday, has played several blitz tournaments this year, beating US grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura in one in October. But he has occasionally shown flashes of losing his cool, as when he slammed the door of the press ...
The Cold War is over, now the battle begins: what you need to know about tonight's big chess matchTelegraph.co.uk
Magnus Carlsen extended his dominance by winning the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive timeNorthbridge Times
Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin: World Chess Championship tie ...Hindustan Times

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Why Magnus Carlsen is the greatest, greater than even Viswanathan Anand
Hindustan Times
A day after India's Viswanathan Anand had defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the World Chess Championship match in Bonn in October 2008, this correspondent asked Australian Grandmaster Ian Rogers whether Anand is the greatest chess player ever ...

Russian sports minister hails Grandmaster Karjakin's drive for World Chess Crown
TASS
Wednesday's tie-breaker in New York was the third in the history of chess championships. The first one was in 2006, when Russia's Vladimir Kramnik beat Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov and the second one was in 2012, when Israel's Boris Gelfand was defeated ...
The World Chess Championship Is Going Into OvertimeFiveThirtyEight
CARLSEN, KARJAKIN IN SHOOTOUT AFTER DRAWPune Mirror
Chess: Carlsen and Karjakin to square off in "stupid" tiebreak to determine World ChampionTheSportsCampus.com
Hindustan Times -Insidethegames.biz -Firstpost
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Magnus Carlsen crowned World Chess Champion for the third time
Daily News & Analysis
The Norwegian, who turned 26 on Wednesday, has played several blitz tournaments this year, beating US grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura in one in October. But he has occasionally shown flashes of losing his cool, as when he slammed the door of the press ...
The Cold War is over, now the battle begins: what you need to know about tonight's big chess matchTelegraph.co.uk
Magnus Carlsen extended his dominance by winning the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive timeNorthbridge Times
Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin: World Chess Championship tie ...Hindustan Times

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Deputy PM: Russian Grandmaster Karjakin fought decently for World Chess Crown
TASS
Wednesday's tie-breaker in New York was the third in the history of chess championships. The first one was in 2006, when Russia's Vladimir Kramnik beat Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov and the second one was in 2012, when Israel's Boris Gelfand was defeated ...
The World Chess Championship Is Going Into OvertimeFiveThirtyEight
CARLSEN, KARJAKIN IN SHOOTOUT AFTER DRAWPune Mirror
Magnus Carlsen defeats Sergey Karjakin to retain World Chess Championship – as it happenedThe Guardian
TheSportsCampus.com -Hindustan Times -Insidethegames.biz
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