2016 Champions Showdown
Viswanathan Anand wins 2016 Champions Showdown in St Louis - Scroll.in
Viswanathan Anand wins 2016 Champions Showdown in St Louis - Scroll.in
Anand wins Champions Showdown in St Louis - ESPN
Viswanathan Anand won the 2016 Champions Showdown in St Louis on Monday, earning $60,000. The exhibition tournament featured three other ...
Anand wins Champions Showdown in St Louis - ESPN
Viswanathan Anand won the 2016 Champions Showdown in St Louis on Monday, earning $60,000. The exhibition tournament featured three other ...
New York 2016: Dramatic near-win in game three - Chessbase News
The world championship has finally started. After a cautious first two games, with the two fighters circling each other, studying each other's moves and essentially ...
Clear Tax founder Archit Gupta had bunked school to watch Viswanathan Anand play chess! - Economic Times
Economic Times
Less than a month ago, Bengaluru-based startup, Clear Tax's founder Archit Gupta had a fanboy moment. He found himself face to face with childhood hero, chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. The meeting brought back memories for Gupta, who ...
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Campeonato del Mundo de Ajedrez: Segundas tablas entre Karjakin y Carlsen - CubaDebate
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Karjakin, en la jugada seis, se apartó de la continuación más habitual y eligió una línea considerada más tranquila. En el movimiento 12, el campeón del mundo realizó una mejora en comparación con una partida que disputó con el búlgaro Veselin Topalov ...
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Chess champions compete in St. Louis - KMOV.com
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KMOV.com
The 2016 Champions Showdown is wrapping up at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. In the tournament, two former world champions and two former US champions have been facing off for a $150,000 prize. Each year, the club hosts major ...
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Can Russia regain its place at the top of world chess? - Russia Beyond the Headlines
Russia Beyond the Headlines
For the first time in nearly 10 years, Russia has a chance to reclaim its world supremacy in chess. Since Vladimir Kramnik ceded the world champion title to India's Viswanathan Anand in 2008, FIDE championship finals have not featured any Russian players.
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Can Russia regain its place at the top of world chess? - Russia Beyond the Headlines
Russia Beyond the Headlines
Since Vladimir Kramnik ceded the world champion title to India's Viswanathan Anand in 2008, FIDE championship finals have not featured any Russian players. This year, this unfortunate trend was broken by 26-year-old grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
Learning to solve from a World Champion - Chessbase News
The first edition of John Nunn's book Solving in Style was published in 1985 by George Allen & Unwin and became an instant hit amongst those interested in ...
Draws And Politics At The World Chess Championship - FiveThirtyEight
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FiveThirtyEight
The last time the World Chess Championship was held in New York City, titleholder Garry Kasparov met challenger Viswanathan Anand on the 107th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center. They played their first game on Sept. 11, 1995. That ...
World Chess C'ship: Quiet draw in game twoSportstarlive
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Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey KarjakinRT
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World Chess C'ship: Quiet draw in game two - Sportstarlive
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Sportstarlive
Interestingly, Carlsen avoided the Berlin Defence, which was the theme of a majority of his games in his first two World title matches, both against India's Viswanathan Anand, in 2013 and 2014. There weren't a lot of fireworks on the board once again.
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Champions Showdown 2016: Anand and Topalov lead - Chessbase News
Champions Showdown 2016: Anand and Topalov lead - Chessbase News
Chess in Myanmar - Chessbase News
For a long time the country of Myanmar has been internationally isolated. But after the military junta, which had been reigning the country for decades, was ...
Young grandmaster takes on chess king - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
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Shanghai Daily (subscription)
“But of course we all want to show that our chess school is stronger.” Ranked ninth in the world, Karyakin qualified for the world championship in March by upsetting third-ranked Fabiano Caruana of the United States at the Candidates' Tournament in Moscow.
Meet the Russian chess star who's 'more Putin than Putin'Page Six
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World Chess Championship: Showdown In New York - High on Sports (blog)
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High on Sports (blog)
He lost three consecutive games in the GCT Blitz Paris this year against Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri. However the only other players to have defeated the Norwegian wonder-kid in the last 50 games were Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime ...
World Chess Championship: Showdown In New York - High on Sports (blog)
High on Sports (blog)
High on Sports (blog)
Carlsen's previous loss came in the opening game of the Bilbao Masters against Hikaru Nakamura and is yet to drop any points since then. Out of the eight games he has lost, most of them were in Blitz competition. He lost three consecutive games in the ...