Kasparov inspired Croatia Grand Chess Tour begins
World Champion Magnus Carlsen tops a field featuring no less than 9 of the world’s top 10 players as the second leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour begins today in Zagreb. Tuesday’s opening ceremony was attended by both Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and one of Croatia’s most famous sons, Garry Kasparov, who was granted citizenship in 2014. The event is a 12-player classical round-robin, which means 11 days of live commentary as the world’s best chess players battle it out for the $90,000 first prize and up to 20 Grand Chess Tour points.
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Norway Chess 8: Magnus triumphs again
Magnus Carlsen has won his 7th tournament in a row after winning the classical game against Yu Yangyi in the penultimate round of Altibox Norway Chess. Magnus took risks in the opening and credited the influence of his “heroes” D...
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Norway Chess 7: Caruana spoils classic as Carlsen's lead grows
Magnus Carlsen now leads Altibox Norway Chess by two points with two rounds to go, after Wesley So blundered on move 16 of their Armageddon game. Levon Aronian moved into second place by beating Yu Yangyi and complained about Car...
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Goryachkina powers towards Candidates triumph
20-year-old Aleksandra Goryachkina is destroying the field at the Women’s Candidates Tournament in Kazan. Her 7.5/9, a +6, 2804 rating performance, put her a massive 2.5 points ahead of 2nd placed Kateryna Lagno with just five ro...
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Norway Chess 6: Things fall apart
Wesley So thought 7 seconds before blundering mate-in-1 against Levon Aronian in a tricky position where he might still have won on time, but arguably that wasn’t the biggest blunder of Round 6 of Altibox Norway Chess. Alexander ...
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Norway Chess 5: How (not) to play Armageddon
Magnus Carlsen increased his lead in Altibox Norway Chess 2019 to 1.5 points after drawing two effortless black games against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to maintain a 100% winning record in his mini-matches. All five encounters went ...
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Norway Chess 4: Stunning moves
Magnus Carlsen beat Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to retain a 1-point lead after Round 4 of Altibox Norway Chess, but birthday boy Yu Yangyi was the only player to win in classical chess after grinding out a win in Alexander Grischuk’s t...
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Norway Chess 3: Magnus takes the lead
Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament after winning what Peter Svidler described as “an instant Grünfeld classic” against Alexander Grischuk. That was just one of four decisive classical ga...
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Norway Chess 2: Shak leads as Carlsen escapes
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is the sole leader of Altibox Norway Chess after pouncing on a blunder by Vishy Anand in Round 2 to win their classical game. Fabiano Caruana also picked up a 2-point win against MVL, while Magnus Carlsen wa...
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Norway Chess 2019, 1: Armageddon is here!
Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi and Levon Aronian all won in Armageddon to lead this year’s Altibox Norway Chess tournament on 1.5/2 after Round 1. Only Carlsen-Anand saw a player come close to winnin...
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MVL beats Magnus again to win Norway Chess Blitz
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Magnus Carlsen for a 3rd time in a row to win the blitz opener of the 2019 edition of Altibox Norway Chess. It was the perfect finale to the event, since a win would have seen Magnus take first place. I...
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