Pepe Cuenca sets up Magnus Carlsen showdown
Pepe Cuenca will play Magnus Carlsen in Round 2 of the $50,000 Banter Blitz Cup after the Spanish Grandmaster scored an incredible 9:0 victory over higher-rated Levan Pantsulaia. We’re now 48 matches down, 16 to go in Round 1, with some of the highlights including powerful displays by prodigies Alireza Firouzja and Praggnanandhaa. It’s not just about the chess. For instance, David Navara not only won his match but sang a chess-themed version of Yesterday by the Beatles!
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9 Conclusions from the Superbet Rapid & Blitz
Levon Aronian has won the inaugural Superbet Rapid and Blitz and almost guaranteed himself a place in the London Grand Chess Tour finals after beating Sergey Karjakin in a playoff. It was a bitter end for Karjakin, whose missed w...
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Hamburg GP, QF: MVL, Grischuk & Duda through
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Grischuk have set up a semi-final that will be hugely important in determining who qualifies from the Grand Prix series to the Candidates. MVL won the first game against Veselin Topalov and dr...
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Superbet GCT Day 4: Le Quang Liem on a rampage
2013 World Blitz Champion Le Quang Liem was second last after the rapid section of the Superbet Rapid and Blitz but went on to score a brilliant 7/9 on the first day of blitz to climb into sole third place. The day’s second top s...
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Superbet GCT Day 3: Korobov is rapid king
Anton Korobov finished the rapid section of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz a full two points ahead of Anish Giri, Levon Aronian and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and, despite remaining unbeaten, explained that, “the task for the blitz se...
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Hamburg GP, R1 Tiebreaks: Armageddon averted
Alexander Grischuk, David Navara, Yu Yangyi and Daniil Dubov are through to the quarterfinals of the Hamburg FIDE Grand Prix after winning Round 1 tiebreaks. The first three players needed just two rapid games to beat Radek Wojta...
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Superbet GCT Day 2: Korobov takes over
Anton Korobov leads the Superbet Rapid & Blitz after crushing Vishy Anand with a kingside attack in the first round of Day 2 and then completely turning the tables on Wesley So in the last. It was a day of ups and downs for many ...
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Hamburg GP, 1.2: Nepo, Wei Yi, Hari & Naka out
There was no way back on Day 2 of the Hamburg FIDE Grand Prix as eight draws meant that Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wei Yi, Harikrishna and Hikaru Nakamura were all knocked out after losing their first games. Only Nepo really came close ...
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Superbet GCT Day 1: Anish Giri a.k.a. Mikhail Tal
Anish Giri found some stunning moves to beat Wesley So and Sergey Karjakin and drew a thriller against Fabiano Caruana as he took the sole lead on 5/6 after Day 1 of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz in Bucharest. Afterwards, talkin...
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Boris Becker plays Caruana at Superbet opening
Tennis legend Boris Becker played a game against chess world no. 2 Fabiano Caruana as the penultimate Grand Chess Tour event before the London finals, the Superbet Rapid & Blitz, was opened in the Stejarii Country Club, Bucharest....
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Hamburg GP, 1.1: MVL, Svidler, Topalov & Duda win
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Wei Yi while Ian Nepomniachtchi blundered and lost to Jan-Krzysztof Duda on a day when fortunes couldn’t have been more different for the favourites to win the Grand Prix Candidates spots. There were a...
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