Sinquefield Cup 5: Ding and Nepo strike
World no. 3 Ding Liren scored an impressive positional victory over Anish Giri to join Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand in the Sinquefield Cup lead going into the rest day. For the first time this year we had two winners, as Ian Nepomniachtchi found a pawn winning “cheapo” (his word) against Hikaru Nakamura and, after many adventures, went on to convert. That took Nepo back to 50%, which is where Magnus Carlsen remains after five draws, the latest against Sergey Karjakin.
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Jan's Opening Clinic 24: Part 3
This week our chess openings guru Jan Gustafsson explains why not to play the Traxler Gambit, answers a couple of questions on the King's Indian Defence and tackles the easy topic of how to meet White's 6.Bg5 in the Najdorf! He also...
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STL Rapid & Blitz 4: “Something is dead wrong” (Kasparov)
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the last game of the day against Levon Aronian to take the sole lead, but it was blunders that dominated Day 4 of the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz. Magnus Carlsen lost three games with Black and failed to ...
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STL Rapid & Blitz 3: MVL is rapid world no. 1
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave lost to Magnus Carlsen at the start of Day 3 of the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, but by the end of the day he’d snatched the world no. 1 spot from Magnus and caught Levon Aronian in the lead. Magnus lost a 4t...
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STL Rapid & Blitz 2: A bad day for Magnus
Magnus Carlsen lost to both Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian as he made uncharacteristic blunders on Day 2 of the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz. Levon, who still leads and is now a whopping five points clear of Magnus, said the Worl...
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STL Rapid & Blitz 1: Ding beats Carlsen, Levon leads
Ding Liren scored his first ever win with White over Magnus Carlsen in any time control to start the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz with a bang, but Magnus hit back to beat wild cards Richard Rapport and Leinier Dominguez in the follo...
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Magnus is back for the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz
Magnus Carlsen has Black against Ding Liren as the Grand Chess Tour resumes today in St. Louis. The 5-day rapid and blitz event will be a warm-up for the 11-round Sinquefield Cup that starts shortly afterwards, though MVL will be...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 24: Part 2
In what Jan describes as, "a rare suit-up episode" he explains "I learned something new and I’m going to have to reveal a thing or two that I’d rather have kept for myself". As well as dropping some opening secrets he gives an in-d...
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Nepo wins Levitov Chess Week in photo finish
Ian Nepomniachtchi has won the Levitov Chess Week after finishing tied on 5/7 with Alexander Grischuk but taking first prize for winning their head-to-head clash. Anish Giri ensured the final day went down to the wire as he beat ...
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Levitov Chess Week 2: Nepo halts Vishy’s charge
Ian Nepomniachtchi overcame Vishy Anand in the final game of Day 2 of the Levitov Chess Week Rapid to take the sole lead going into the final two rounds on Tuesday. Before that “it felt like Vishy was back to his best years” (Svi...
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Kramnik makes winning return in blitz
Vladimir Kramnik retired from classical chess in January, but in the blitz opener of the Levitov Chess Week he showed he’s still not so rusty. He matched the 5/7 of Vishy Anand but took first place after winning their individual e...
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