Pepe Cuenca sets up Magnus Carlsen showdown
Pepe Cuenca will play Magnus Carlsen in Round 2 of the $50,000 Banter Blitz Cup after the Spanish Grandmaster scored an incredible 9:0 victory over higher-rated Levan Pantsulaia. We’re now 48 matches down, 16 to go in Round 1, with some of the highlights including powerful displays by prodigies Alireza Firouzja and Praggnanandhaa. It’s not just about the chess. For instance, David Navara not only won his match but sang a chess-themed version of Yesterday by the Beatles!
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Khanty World Cup 3.2: No way back
None of the seven players who had to win on demand on Tuesday managed, meaning that Sergey Karjakin (who lost to Nikita Vitiugov), Harikrishna (Kirill Alekseenko), Vidit (Wesley So), Dmitry Andreikin (Jan-Krzysztof Duda), Eltaj S...
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Khanty World Cup 3.1: Seven on the brink
Sergey Karjakin, Dmitry Andreikin, Harikrishna and Vidit are among the 7 players who must win on Tuesday or they’re out of the World Cup after losing to Nikita Vitiugov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Kirill Alekseenko and Wesley So in a br...
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Khanty World Cup R2 TB: Giri survives Armageddon
Anish Giri is through to play US teenager Jeffery Xiong in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup after the number 2 seed’s match with Evgeniy Najer went all the way to a final sudden death game. Elsewhere in the Round 2 tiebreaks the fav...
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Khanty World Cup 2.2: Naka out as Firouzja stars
Hikaru Nakamura is out of the 2019 FIDE World Cup after Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu not only held on for a draw but was close to a second win. The day’s comebacks were instead for Wei Yi, who defeated David Anton, and Eltaj Safarli, w...
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Khanty World Cup 2.1: Nakamura & Wei Yi lose
Hikaru Nakamura must win his second classical game or he’s out of the 2019 World Cup after blitzing out a blunder on move 14 of his game against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. David Anton beating Wei Yi was the only other upset win, but...
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chess24 and Opera GX: the perfect combination
Opera GX, the new gaming browser from Norway-based Opera, will enhance your online chess experience. Along with its featured Twitch integration, GX lets you pop out any video, including chess24 shows, video series and live commentar...
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Khanty World Cup R1 TB: Shankland & Adams out
Hikaru Nakamura, Yu Yangyi, Boris Gelfand and Dmitry Andreikin were among the star names to make it through tiebreaks intact and reach Round 2 of the 2019 FIDE World Cup, but others weren’t so lucky. Sam Shankland’s difficult yea...
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Khanty World Cup 1.2: A Svidler masterpiece
David Navara & Nils Grandelius lost their second games in Khanty-Mansiysk to join Radek Wojtaszek, Jorge Cori, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ruslan Ponomariov as big name players who are already out of the 2019 World Cup. In all only five o...
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Khanty World Cup, 1.1: Rise of the teen stars
16th seed Radek Wojtaszek lost with White to 113th seed Johan-Sebastian Christiansen in the biggest upset of Day 1 of the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. There were only four upset wins in total, with Niclas Huschenbeth be...
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The 2019 Khanty-Mansiysk World Cup begins
Ding Liren is the top seed as the 128-player month-long World Cup starts on Tuesday in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand are skipping the event, but almost all the rest of the world’s best p...
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