Dorfman: The real talent is the ability to work hard
Grandmaster Iossif Dorfman, a USSR and French Chess Champion, talks to Joachim Iglesias about chess life in the Soviet Union, seconding Garry Kasparov for four World Championship matches, coaching the 9-year-old Etienne Bacrot, new chess talents (he feels Vladislav Artemiev has much more potential than Sergey Karjakin) and his book and now video series, The Method in Chess.
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Women’s Candidates Tournament starts in Kazan
A new era in women’s chess began in Kazan, Russia on Friday as eight of the world’s best female players began the battle to qualify for a World Championship match against Ju Wenjun. Women’s world no. 3 Mariya Muzychuk is the top ...
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MVL on being Carlsen's no. 1 rival in blitz
French no. 1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave finished joint second in the Côte d'Ivoire Grand Chess Tour, while winning the blitz section, and on his return home he gave an interview to chess24’s French site on his results, his rivalry wi...
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Nepomniachtchi wins the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix
“Somewhat solid” was how Ian Nepomniachtchi summed up his play after he beat Alexander Grischuk in the second tiebreak game to take first place in Moscow and claim 9 Grand Prix points. Despite the disappointment of losing, Grisch...
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Grischuk-Nepomniachtchi final goes to tiebreaks
Alexander Grischuk described the first game of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix final as an “opening catastrophe”, which left him an hour behind on the clock with the white pieces after 18 moves. Ian Nepomniachtchi failed to find a kil...
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Magnus lives dangerously but wins in Lindores
Magnus Carlsen won 250 bottles of whisky as he finished unbeaten and in clear first place in the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars Tournament, but it wasn’t the kind of performance we’ve become accustomed to from the World Champion this...
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Carlsen and Ding Liren lead after Lindores Day 1
World Champion Magnus Carlsen and world no. 3 Ding Liren lead the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars Tournament after drawing twice then winning in the final round of the day. Sergey Karjakin had been the early leader until he lost to Di...
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Moscow GP Semis TB: Nepo sets up all-Russian final
Ian Nepomniachtchi will face Alexander Grischuk in the final of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix after beating Radek Wojtaszek with a win in the fourth tiebreak game of their semifinal match. Before that it was Wojtaszek who was on top...
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Moscow GP Semis: Grischuk knocks out Nakamura
Alexander Grischuk is through to the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix final and up to world no. 6 after winning a hugely complicated second classical game to beat Hikaru Nakamura 1.5:0.5. The Russian’s opponent in the final will be either ...
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Chess stars to play in historic Scottish distillery
Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Ding Liren and Sergey Karjakin will this weekend play each other twice in rapid chess in the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars tournament. The event, which will be broadcast live via chess24 with commentary ...
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Moscow GP QF Tiebreaks: The favourites roll on
Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi all made short work of their tiebreaks against Daniil Dubov, Wesley So and Wei Yi to reach the semifinals of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. The only (slight) underdog to ...
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