Tata Steel 2019, 5: Magnus breaks the streak
Magnus Carlsen beat Jorden van Foreest with the black pieces in Round 5 of the 2019 Tata Steel Masters to finally end a sequence of 21 draws in a row. That puts him half a point behind leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and now Ding Liren, who punished the slightest of mistakes by Sam Shankland to overtake Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as the world no. 3. Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson provide expert analysis of those encounters. The other games were drawn, though Teimour Radjabov and Vidit came close to extracting blood from Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Vladimir Fedoseev.
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Levon Aronian: “We should be like wolves”
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Morozevich on Go, computers and cheating
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Q&A with David Llada
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Sergey Karjakin: “I’m simply a fighter”
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Fedoseev on Dortmund and his World Cup dreams
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Aronian: “I get over losses more easily than wins”
Levon Aronian failed to make much of an impact on the Leuven Grand Chess Tour, but before that he’d won the GRENKE Chess Classic and Altibox Norway Chess in style, finishing far clear of World Champion Magnus Carlsen on both occa...
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Kramnik on Carlsen’s slump & the Candidates race
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Fedoseev on crossing the 2700 barrier
22-year-old Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Fedoseev has had a great year – he won the Aeroflot Open and qualified to face Kramnik, MVL and co. in Dortmund, came very close to winning both the Winter Chess Classic in St. Louis and t...
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