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Former world champion Garry Kasparov comes out of retirement ...
Yahoo India News
Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov is coming out of retirement to play in a US tournament next month, organisers announced on Thursday.

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King of chess back in game after 12-year hiatus sparked by loss to supercomputer
Montreal Gazette
While he will not face the current world's best, his former protege Magnus Carlsen, Kasparov will take on Carlsen's Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin and two Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. Kasparov has had outings in minor ...

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King of chess back in game after 12-year hiatus sparked by loss to supercomputer
Regina Leader-Post
While he will not face the current world's best, his former protege Magnus Carlsen, Kasparov will take on Carlsen's Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin and two Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. Kasparov has had outings in minor ...

King of chess back in game after 12-year hiatus sparked by loss to supercomputer
Calgary Herald
While he will not face the current world's best, his former protege Magnus Carlsen, Kasparov will take on Carlsen's Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin and two Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. Kasparov has had outings in minor ...

Chess legend Kasparov back from retirement
The Times of Israel
1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway will also play at the tournament, as will Hikaru Nakamura, ranked second in the world. “Ready to see if I remember how to move the pieces! Will I be able to announce my re-retirement afterwards if not?!,” Kasparov tweeted ...
Garry Kasparov returns to chess for US tournamentThe Guardian
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Dmitry Andreikin Snags 5th Titled Tuesday Victory
Chess.com
GM Dmitry Andreikin secured his fifth victory in 4 July's MasterClass Titled Tuesday Blitz. Only GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Georg Meier have more wins to their credit. Our three other victors were GM Akshat Chandra and IMs Vladimir Seliverstov and Minh Le.

Garry Kasparov returns to chess for US tournament
The Guardian
... play, as will Hikaru Nakamura, ranked second in the world. While he won't be facing Carlsen, Kasparov – who is in the Rapid and Blitz competition – may go against number two Hikaru Nakamura or the up-and-coming 26-year-old Russian Sergey Karyakin.
The king is back: Chess legend Garry Kasparov comes out of ...Telegraph.co.uk
Chess legend Kasparov back from retirement for US tournamentDaily Mail
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Chess legend Garry Kasparov comes out of retirement to play Rapid and Blitz tournament
Daily News & Analysis
Kasparov is not facing his former protege Magnus Carlsen, but he will play the new generation of American players like Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. He will also take on Carlsen's Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin. Kasparov is better ...
Chess legend Kasparov back from retirementThe Times of Israel
Garry Kasparov returns to chess for US tournamentThe Guardian
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Chess legend Kasparov back from retirement for US tournament
Times Now
1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway will also play at the tournament, as will Hikaru Nakamura, ranked second in the world. "Ready to see if I remember how to move the pieces! Will I be able to announce my re-retirement afterward if not?!," Kasparov himself ...

The king is back: Chess legend Garry Kasparov comes out of retirement
Telegraph.co.uk
While Kasparov will not face the current world's best, his former protégé Magnus Carlsen, he will take on Carlsen's Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin and two top Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. Kasparov has had outings in minor ...

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Yo Gotti Gets Key To Memphis & Official "Yo Gotti Day"
HipHopDX
Other past recipients of the key to Memphis include Master P and U.S. Chess Champion Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. Although Miami rapper Rick Ross doesn't hail from Memphis or call the city home, he also received the key to Memphis back in 2014, ...

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World Team Chess Championship
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Hikaru Nakamura was originally born in Osaka but he arrived in the USA at the age of two and learned chess at five -- he is really the product of US chess. The “buying nerds” part refers to Fabiano Caruana (who was representing Italy before he returned ...

Historic Sinquefield Cup Brings Top World Chess Talent to Saint Louis; Legendary World Champion Garry Kasparov ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The third and final American player participating in the 2017 Sinquefield Cup is GM Hikaru Nakamura, ranked No. 7. Once again, the U.S. is the only country with three players ranked in the top ten globally. History to Be Made: Garry Kasparov Will ...

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
Missing from Leuven are Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Laurent Bacrot, Sergey Karjakin, and Hikaru Nakamura. An interesting point about the time control is the adoption of the Bronstein control, which delays clock starting after each move, ...

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Chess notes
The Boston Globe
Carlsen came out of the rapid event undefeated, with a point lead over Russian Alexander Grischuk and two points over American Hikaru Nakamura. All looked good, but then came the blitz event and things changed. In 18 blitz games, Carlsen finished in ...

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CHESS#1258
Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog)
In the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour, Magnus Carlsen stumbled in sight of a win, and Maxime Vachier Lagrave caught up. But Carlsen won a tie-break. He had stormed the Rapid section with 7/9, useful since the rapid games count as double. Carlsen ...

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On Chess: World Champion Magnus Carlsen wins 1st leg of Grand Chess Tour
St. Louis Public Radio
As it was last year, the United States is represented by Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So, the 2016 Grand Chess Tour winner. Nakamura, who won in Paris last year, finished in third place, after an unfortunate loss towards the end. Caruana ...

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5th Norway Chess 2017
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Hikaru Nakamura USA 2785, Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2808, 5.0/9 4-6. Fabiano Caruana USA 2808, Wesley So USA 2812, Anish Giri NED 2771, 4.5/9 7-9. Maxime Vachier Lagrave FRA 2796, Viswanathan Anand IND 2786, Magnus Carlsen NOR 2832, 4.0/9

So finishes 7th in Paris Grand Chess Tour
The Manila Times
... Grischuk of Russia in the third round, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France in the fifth, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the sixth, GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the seventh and 2016 champion GM Hikaru Nakamura of US in the eighth.
Magnus Carlsen puts recent poor form behind him at Grand Tour elite rapidsThe Guardian

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