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Carlsen remains No. 1 - Philippine Star

Sun, 11/05/2017 - 10:50am

Carlsen remains No. 1
Philippine Star
Fabiano Caruana (USA), 25, and Azeri Shakriyar Mamedyarov tied for second-third with 2799 apiece. They were followed by Frenchman Maxime Vacier-Lagrave, who came in fifth with 2796. The rest of top 10 were American Wesley So, the youngest at 24, ...

So gets slot in Candidates' tournament - Inquirer.net

Sat, 11/04/2017 - 6:38pm

Inquirer.net

So gets slot in Candidates' tournament
Inquirer.net
His performance throughout the year paying off, So earned a spot in the eight-man competition, the winner of which will challenge reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway for the crown next year. The 24-year-old So, born in Cavite but now ...

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So gets slot in Candidates' tournament - Inquirer.net

Sat, 11/04/2017 - 6:38pm

Inquirer.net

So gets slot in Candidates' tournament
Inquirer.net
His performance throughout the year paying off, So earned a spot in the eight-man competition, the winner of which will challenge reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway for the crown next year. The 24-year-old So, born in Cavite but now ...

Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Sat, 11/04/2017 - 1:01pm

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The 21st European Team Championship is taking place in the Mediterranean resort of Hersonissos Crete, Greece. It is a nine-round Swiss and runs to Nov. 7. It's a national team event with 40 countries fielding teams. Of 195 players, 138 are grandmasters.

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Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Sat, 11/04/2017 - 1:00pm

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The 21st European Team Championship is taking place in the Mediterranean resort of Hersonissos Crete, Greece. It is a nine-round Swiss and runs to Nov. 7. It's a national team event with 40 countries fielding teams. Of 195 players, 138 are grandmasters.

CHESS#1275 - Business Standard

Fri, 11/03/2017 - 1:12pm

Business Standard

CHESS#1275
Business Standard
Qualifiers include Sergey Karjakin (World Championship runner-up), Levon Aronian, Ding Liren (World Cup), Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana (highest averaged rating of 2017). The two open slots would be filled by the top finishers in the Grand Prix.

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Thu, 11/02/2017 - 12:13pm
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Minnetonka chess grandmaster qualifies for world championship cycle - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Thu, 11/02/2017 - 10:00am

Minnetonka chess grandmaster qualifies for world championship cycle
Minneapolis Star Tribune
So, the reigning U.S. Chess Champion, is one of two Americans to qualify for The Candidates; the other is Fabiano Caruana, of St. Louis. Four other players have qualified, including two Russians, an Armenian and a Chinese player. Two more players will ...

On Chess: World Champion Carlsen returns to St. Louis for unique exhibition matches - St. Louis Public Radio

Thu, 11/02/2017 - 6:04am

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: World Champion Carlsen returns to St. Louis for unique exhibition matches
St. Louis Public Radio
1, Fabiano Caruana, will match up against two-time World Blitz Champion, Alexander Grischuk. If this were not enough, we will have the return of reigning World Champion, Blitz world No. 1, Magnus Carlsen, facing off against China's top player, Ding Liren.

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So resumes quest for world title, enters Candidate Tournament - Philippine Star

Thu, 11/02/2017 - 2:24am

Philippine Star

So resumes quest for world title, enters Candidate Tournament
Philippine Star
Born in the Philippines but representing the United States, the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based So advanced in the final World Championship Cycle phase along with US Olympiad teammate Fabiano Caruana after getting the highest average rating of all 12 ...

Armenia's Aronian maintains 2nd position in latest FIDE Rankings - Panorama.am

Wed, 11/01/2017 - 8:19am

Panorama.am

Armenia's Aronian maintains 2nd position in latest FIDE Rankings
Panorama.am
Fabiano Caruana comes the thirst with 2799 points. Standard Top 100 Men September 2017 features three other Armenian chess players. In particular, Sergei Movsesian (2667) ranks the 76th, Vladimir Hakobyan (2667) comes the 77th and Gabriel Sargsyan ...

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Viswanathan Anand no longer in World Championship - Times of India

Mon, 10/30/2017 - 11:58pm

Times of India

Viswanathan Anand no longer in World Championship
Times of India
Russian GM Sergey Karjakin qualified as the last World Championship's challenger. Levon Aronian of Armenia who won the World Cup in Tbilisi and Chinese GM Ding Liren, who finished second, also made the grade. US GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley ...

Kramnik Gets Candidates' Wild Card - Chess.com

Mon, 10/30/2017 - 7:27am

Chess.com

Kramnik Gets Candidates' Wild Card
Chess.com
He was losing the race for qualifying to the 2018 Candidates' tournament by rating to Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So... but he seemed fairly relaxed about it. Had he already heard about his wild card behind the scenes? According to Ilya Merenzon of ...

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National Chess Day, unique scholastic chess tournament - AL.com

Mon, 10/30/2017 - 7:06am

AL.com

National Chess Day, unique scholastic chess tournament
AL.com
The match-ups include Fabiano Caruana (USA) vs. Alexander Grishchuk (Russia); Hikaru Nakamura (USA) vs. former World Champion Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria); and reigning U.S. Chess Champion Wesley So (USA) vs. Leinier Dominguez (Cuba).

Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Sun, 10/29/2017 - 7:23pm

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
This writer's favorite chess team league is off and running. The 2017/18 Schach Bundesliga season recently began. The league once again features the odds-on favorite, defending champ, and winner of 12 of the last 13 years, OSG Baden-Baden. This year's ...

Iran's loss is America's gain in Dorsa Derakhshani's headscarf fight - Washington Times

Tue, 10/24/2017 - 4:55pm

Washington Times

Iran's loss is America's gain in Dorsa Derakhshani's headscarf fight
Washington Times
Chess is a global game, and top players deciding to switch their national federation is not uncommon. At least six of the top-rated players in the U.S., including No. 1 GM Fabiano Caruana (Italy) and No. 2 GM Wesley So (Philippines), once competed ...

Kluger Zug am Pool Warum die Schachwelt bald nach Berlin blickt - Berliner Zeitung

Mon, 10/23/2017 - 6:15pm

Berliner Zeitung

Kluger Zug am Pool Warum die Schachwelt bald nach Berlin blickt
Berliner Zeitung
Viswanathan Anand, Schachweltmeister von 2007 bis 2013, spielt etwa für den mehrfachen Deutschen Meister OSG Baden-Baden ebenso wie der Italo-Amerikaner Fabiano Caruana, aktuell einer der Top-Spieler der Welt. Der Russe Anatoli Karpow, der ...

Carlsen-Ding Among Champions Showdown Matches - Chess.com

Mon, 10/23/2017 - 9:21am

Chess.com

Carlsen-Ding Among Champions Showdown Matches
Chess.com
In November some of the world's strongest grandmasters will be returning to St. Louis for what is called the Champions Showdown. The four matches are Hikaru Nakamura vs. Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana vs. Alexander Grischuk, Wesley So vs. Leinier ...

Kluger Zug am Pool Warum die Schachwelt bald nach Berlin blickt - Berliner Zeitung

Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:40am

Kluger Zug am Pool Warum die Schachwelt bald nach Berlin blickt
Berliner Zeitung
Viswanathan Anand, Schachweltmeister von 2007 bis 2013, spielt etwa für den mehrfachen Deutschen Meister OSG Baden-Baden ebenso wie der Italo-Amerikaner Fabiano Caruana, aktuell einer der Top-Spieler der Welt. Der Russe Anatoli Karpow, der ...

William Lombardy's exceptional performance in 1960 often overlooked - The Guardian

Fri, 10/20/2017 - 2:15pm

The Guardian

William Lombardy's exceptional performance in 1960 often overlooked
The Guardian
He was analysing the critical Magnus Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana game from the Isle of Man Open just a few days before his death. In 2016 his life took a turn for a worse when he was evicted from his New York apartment for rent arrears. Homeless, he was ...

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