Carlsen-Caruana 8: Fabi lets another chance slip
Fabiano Caruana missed his best chance yet to take the lead in the match as he got the better of Magnus Carlsen in the opening to Game 8 but then hesitated and played too modestly at the critical moment. The World Champion’s position was on the verge of collapse, but he pounced instantly when given a chance to steer the game to an 8th consecutive draw, admitting afterwards that he was “happy to have survived”. That leaves only four games remaining in London before potential tiebreaks.
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Batumi 2018, 5: Shak attack!
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Batumi 2018, 4: Kramnik falls as Poland beat Russia
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Batumi 2018, 3: USA set up India showdown
Wesley So won a third game in a row while Jorden van Foreest self-destructed as the USA beat the Netherlands 3:1 in the biggest match-up so far in Batumi. That sets up a mouth-watering clash in Round 4 with India, for whom Vishy ...
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Batumi 2018, 2: Uzbekistan shock Russia
31st seeds Uzbekistan defeated women’s gold medal favourites Russia as the 2018 Batumi Olympiad got serious in Round 2. Some big names were back, with none bigger than Vishy Anand, whose first Olympiad game since Turin in 2006 wa...
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Batumi 2018, 1: Isolated heroes
Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Ding Liren, Vishy Anand, MVL and more stars were rested for Round 1 of the Batumi Olympiad, but it didn’t stop a massacre. The favourites won in all 162 matches in the Ope...
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USA favourites as Olympiad set to begin in Batumi
The 43rd Chess Olympiad starts this weekend, with 1600 players descending on Batumi, Georgia for the biggest event in chess. The surprise this year is that the defending champions USA are also the top seeds, a role held by the US...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 22: Part 1
Season 22 of Jan's Opening Clinic gets off to a wobbly start when Jan comments, "I’m in a bad mood, I haven’t slept enough, I’m not well-dressed and I’m not well-prepared for the questions... I’ll be condescending and more rude and...
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Maghsoodloo crushes World Junior Championship
Just after his 18th birthday Parham Maghsoodloo from Iran announced his arrival on the world stage by bulldozing his way to the World Junior Championship with a staggering 9.5/10. Despite losing the final game to Andrey Esipenko ...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 22
German no. 2 Jan Gustafsson will be coaching the Dutch men's team at the upcoming Olympiad, but you don't need to be Anish Giri to get some opening tips from a world renowned expert. chess24 Premium Members can simply leave a questi...
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Chess960 Showdown 4: Svidler the nearly man
On a final day with little intrigue in most of the matches, Peter Svidler came closest – both to beating Hikaru Nakamura, and to getting the chess960 position correct before analysing it for 29 minutes with Garry Kasparov! The fo...
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