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Chess Corner: USA captures gold medal
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The USA has three players ranked in the top 10 in the world: Fabiano Caruana, who is ranked 3rd; Hikaru Nakamura, who is ranked 6th; and Wesley So, who is ranked 7th. These three players, along with Sam Shankland, represented USA. This week's ...

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Chess Corner: USA captures gold medal
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
The USA has three players ranked in the top 10 in the world: Fabiano Caruana, who is ranked 3rd; Hikaru Nakamura, who is ranked 6th; and Wesley So, who is ranked 7th. These three players, along with Sam Shankland, represented USA. This week's ...

Chess Olympiad: Why the Indian men couldn't win a medal despite leading till Round 6
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Their “dream team” of Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So and Samuel Shankland featured three of the world's top ten players, and handed the Indian men their first three defeats in the tournament, all in the course of one round, deflating India ...

US Chess Team Wins Olympic Gold in Baku
Huffington Post
Hikaru Nakamura was the workhorse, playing all 11 games, and was almost knocked out by a cold in the last few rounds. Sam Shankland did well until the last round. Ray Robson's unfortunate loss to Alexander Grischuk of Russia made it hard to put him ...

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US Chess Team Wins Olympic Gold in Baku
Huffington Post
Hikaru Nakamura was the workhorse, playing all 11 games, and was almost knocked out by a cold in the last few rounds. Sam Shankland did well until the last round. Ray Robson's unfortunate loss to Alexander Grischuk of Russia made it hard to put him ...

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Hochman: Tigers need to keep an eye on speedy McKenzie
STLtoday.com
Current Webster University student Ray Robson and former student Wesley So are on the national team, as are Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, both with St. Louis ties. Webster's team, ranked No. 1, is spearheaded by Susan Polgar, who calls the ...

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Hochman: Tigers need to keep an eye on speedy McKenzie
STLtoday.com
Current Webster University student Ray Robson and former student Wesley So are on the national team, as are Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, both with St. Louis ties. Webster's team, ranked No. 1, is spearheaded by Susan Polgar, who calls the ...

Imported players help US win chess gold
The Hindu
So has said that he paid his own transfer fees to make that happen, but when he and Caruana joined Hikaru Nakamura, the world's sixth-ranked player, on the US team, it created a formidable line-up. (Teams at the Chess Olympiad are composed of five ...

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Chess (#1218)
Business Standard
The US came to the Baku Olympiad with a dream team, including three top 10 players in Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So. They took the Open gold for the first time since the Haifa Olympiad in 1976 (when the USSR boycotted). But Ukraine ...

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Wesley So helps US win Olympiad gold
Manila Bulletin
He was joined in the US team by Italian-American Fabiano Caruana, ranked third in the world, and Japanese-American Hikaru Nakamura, ranked sixth in the world. With Caruana, Nakamura and So on the team, the US, with three of the top 10 players in the ...
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Contented Wanyama talks Baku experience
Kawowo Sports
The curtains at the World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan were brought down on Tuesday, September 13 after 14 days of intense and keen competition among 180 nations in the Open category and 142 in the Women section. USA went unbeaten and ...

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On Chess: USA wins gold at Baku Chess Olympiad
St. Louis Public Radio
The American team consisted of St. Louis resident Fabiano Caruana, former St. Louis resident Hikaru Nakamura, current Webster University student Ray Robson, California native Sam Shankland and former Webster University student Wesley So. Seeded ...
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U.S. Chess Team Takes Olympiad Gold for First Time in 40 years
PR Newswire (press release)
3 and U.S. Champion; GM Hikaru Nakamura (Sunrise, Fl.), World. No. 6 and four-time U.S. Champion; GM Wesley So (Minnetonka, Minn.), World. No. 7 and current Grand Chess Tour leader. GM Sam Shankland (San Francisco, Cal.); and GM Ray Robson (St.

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42 nd Baku Chess Olympiad
BusinessWorld Online Edition
The United States of America (USA) has just won the Baku Olympiad! They were not the top seed (Russia is seeded no. 1) but with a frontline of Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So they were the only country who can field three players rated ...

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Strong St. Louis ties to chess gold medal - HeraldCourier.com: Sports
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four chess players with St. Louis connections are among a five-person team that won a gold medal at the World Chess Olympiad, the first ...

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Strong St. Louis ties to chess gold medal
The Daily Progress
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2caj5ym ) reports that team members included St. Louis resident Grandmaster Fabio Caruana; former St. Louis resident and past U.S. Chess champion Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura; former Webster University student ...
Sports|US Wins Gold at Chess Olympiad With Help of Imported TalentNew York Times
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First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu

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USA voitti shakkiolympialaiset
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Kaksi ottelua päättyi tasapeliin. Voittajajoukkueessa pelasivat suurmestarit Fabiano Caruana (7 pistettä 10 pelistä), Hikaru Nakamura (7,5/11), Wesley So (8,5/10), Samuel Shankland (5,5/8) ja Ray Robson (3/5). USAn voitto oli historiallinen. Edellisen ...

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Chess Olympiad: Indian teams miss medals by a whisker
Times of India
PUNE: Both Indian teams failed to win a medal in the Chess Olympiad that concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. While the men's campaign ended in an uneventful manner, the women failed to beat USA and settled for the fifth spot. The men's fourth ...

Chess Olympiad: Indian teams miss medals by a whisker
Times of India
PUNE: Both Indian teams failed to win a medal in the Chess Olympiad that concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. While the men's campaign ended in an uneventful manner, the women failed to beat USA and settled for the fifth spot. The men's fourth ...
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Sports|US Wins Gold at Chess Olympiad With Help of Imported Talent
New York Times
So has said that he paid his own transfer fees to make that happen, but when he and Caruana joined Hikaru Nakamura, the world's sixth-ranked player, on the United States team, it created a formidable lineup. (Teams at the Chess Olympiad are composed of ...
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