Anish Giri: 'People are taking the World Champion title too seriously'
Dutch no. 1 Anish Giri was in fine form when he played Banter Blitz yesterday, both with his blitz chess – he won all 16 games against chess24 users – and with his banter, where topics ranged from humour in chess to the likely future World Chess Champion and whether the title still matters. It’s “a golden era of Banter Blitz”, as Anish said, and today, to mark chess24’s 7th Birthday, we’ve got Hand and Brain shows with Radjabov & Giri and Nepomniachtchi & Dubov, as well as a special show with chess24’s own Jan Gustafsson and Laurent Fressinet.
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Anand: I am going through a phase of changing my game
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Carlsen tops Vugar Gashimov Memorial field
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Candidates Tournament pairings published
The World Chess Federation today announced the pairings for the tournament that will determine the next challenger for World Champion Magnus Carlsen. The 2014 Candidates Tournament starts a month tomorrow, with Viswanathan Anand - L...
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Anand to fight to regain his crown
The World Chess Federation today announced that all the players qualified to play in the 2014 Candidates Tournament have confirmed their participation. Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand will therefore be one of eight players c...
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Carlsen to trademark his name
Norwegian news site VG reports that World Champion Magnus Carlsen is planning to trademark his name in Norway, with his manager Espen Agdestein describing it as a formality to “protect the brand Magnus Carlsen”
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Carlsen to defend his title in November 2014
Magnus Carlsen won’t have long to bask in the glory of his World Championship title before he faces a new challenge. The World Chess Federation today announced the next match in 2014 will run from the 6th to the 25th November. The d...
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Korchnoi to play in Christmas Open (updated)
82-year-old Viktor Korchnoi is set to play top-level chess again, a little over a year after suffering a stroke that some feared would put an end to his chess career. The indomitable Russian features on the starting list of players ...
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The wrong pieces in Chennai?
Chess sponsor Oleg Skvortsov was in Chennai for the start of the recent World Championship match and spotted a factor he thinks may have been overlooked – Magnus Carlsen was more familiar with the chess set used
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Svidler to play 2014 Candidates
Chess24 author Peter Svidler has been named as the organiser’s nominee for the 8-player Candidates Tournament in March 2014. That event in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia will determine the challenger for the next World Championship match...
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Top German player claims lack of support
Former World Junior Champion Elisabeth Paehtz was recently featured in the “satirical chess magazine” Kingpin. Topics ranged from the most irritating player she’d ever faced at the board to her love of opera, but there were also so...
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