Dortmund 6: The draw curse continues
Radek Wojtaszek squandered a win against Matthias Bluebaum and then lamented, “that’s somehow the story of the tournament - there are many winning chances, but everything ends in a draw”. The Polish no. 1 still goes into the last round half a point clear of the pack, though, since everyone else has the same issue. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave couldn’t convert an extra pawn against Vladimir Fedoseev, while sometimes extravagant winning attempts in Nisipeanu-Andreikin and Wang Yue-Kramnik all came to nothing.
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Dortmund 2: From hero to zero
Vladimir Fedoseev didn’t get long to savour beating former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik as in Round 2 of the Sparkassen Dortmund Chess Meeting he went wrong in the opening and got blown away by local star Matthias Bluebaum. Ma...
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Dortmund 1: Fedoseev crushes Kramnik’s dream
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Dortmund 2017: Can Kramnik catch Carlsen?
The 2017 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is also officially being known us the Vladimir Kramnik Tournament, with the current world no. 2 celebrating 25 years since he first appeared in a Dortmund event in 1992. Since then he’s w...
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Danzhou 4-5: Wei Yi crosses 2750 in style
You have to feel a bit sorry for Chinese no. 1 Ding Liren. After torturing Wei Yi in their individual game in Round 4 it seemed that by beating Ruslan Ponomariov in Round 5 he was going to catch the leader, but instead Wei Yi wor...
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The Wei Yi show in Danzhou
Wei Yi is the sole leader after three rounds of the Danzhou Super-GM tournament on 2.5/3. He beat Lu Shanglei fast on the black side of the Sicilian and then won a spectacular encounter with Ruslan Ponomariov where he sacrificed ...
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Wesley So beats Anand to claim 1st León title
Wesley So stopped Vishy Anand from claiming a 10th victory in the León Masters after winning their final match in blitz tiebreaks. The four rapid games before that had all finished in draws, but not without plenty of excitement, ...
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So beats Duda in León despite amazing blunder
Wesley So is on course to play a 4-game rapid match against Vishy Anand on Sunday in the final of the 2017 León Masters, but it wasn’t easy! In the first game of his semi-final against Jan-Krzysztof Duda he inexplicably blundered...
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Some dramatic games you may have missed
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Kasparov “officially” back as St. Louis wildcard
12 years after Garry Kasparov retired from chess in 2005 he’s returning next month as a wild card for the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour. That means Garry will face off against the likes of Hikaru Naka...
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11 conclusions from the 2017 Leuven GCT
“Everyone else was playing blitz while he was playing chess!” That was Garry Kasparov’s assessment of an utterly dominant display by Magnus Carlsen, who followed up his Paris triumph by cruising to victory in Leuven. A sequence of...
