GRENKE Chess 2: Carlsen's “once in a lifetime” win
Magnus Carlsen won a 5th game in a row as he beat Paco Vallejo in Round 2 of the GRENKE Chess Classic to retain the sole lead and move over 50 points ahead of Fabiano Caruana on the live rating list. He did it in an ending he said “you get once in your life”, and where you wouldn’t have bet on anyone else picking up the full point. Elsewhere Peter Svidler and Vishy Anand moved into second place with wins over Arkadij Naiditsch and Vincent Keymer, while Caruana-MVL and Meier-Aronian ended in draws.
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Paul Keres IV: The War Years
In our previous article marking the centenary of the great Paul Keres, we saw him win the Avro Tournament but have his hopes of a World Championship match with Alexander Alekhine thwarted by the outbreak of World War II. The year...
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A psychologist analyses Carlsen-Karjakin
After the end of the World Championship match, Spanish sports psychologist Carlos Martínez sent us his detailed analysis of the encounter. Carlos, like many others, highlighted the importance of the psychological struggle at di...
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Carlsen-Karjakin Preview 2: Sergey as White
Since the reunification of the World Championship title in 2006 five matches have been played, but only one challenger, a certain Magnus Carlsen, has managed to win a game with the black pieces (in fact, he won two against Anand in ...
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Carlsen-Karjakin Preview 1: Magnus as White
World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Challenger Sergey Karjakin meet in New York from 11-30 November in the first World Championship match between a new generation of players. The 12-game encounter will draw the attention of the whole ...
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MVL triumphs in Corsica
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has won the 20th edition of the Corsican Circuit after beating Vishy Anand in the final. The French no. 1 swept through the tournament, needing only two rapid games to win each of his four matches. Our report ...
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Antón beats Duda to win Barcelona Masters
Spain's David Antón has won the Barcelona Masters after a dramatic final round win over Poland's Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who had confidently led the tournament up to that point. Antón and Duda both scored 5/7, but the Spanish ...
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Paul Keres III: AVRO 1938 - Rightful challenger
Paul Keres came from nowhere to reach the top of the chess world in only a few years, with his greatest triumph perhaps coming at the age of 22, when he won one of the strongest tournaments ever held: AVRO 1938. Joosep Grents’ la...
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Baku Olympiad 2016 - an insider's guide
It has now been a week since I came back from Baku and there has been plenty of time to reflect on what made this Olympiad special, but also on what can be improved upon. This was my eighth participation in an Olympiad and, as suc...
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Paul Keres II: A new chess superstar (1936-7)
In Part II of our series marking the centenary of the birth of Paul Keres, Joosep Grents looks at how the 20-year-old Estonian dazzled the 1930s chess world with a series of spectacular games. In Part I we saw how Keres established ...
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Paul Keres: Prince without a Crown
In 2016 the chess world lost Viktor Korchnoi, many people’s choice as the strongest player never to become World Champion. Another contender for that title is Paul Keres (1916-1975), the great Estonian grandmaster, who would have ...
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