Amin holds off Short to win in Abu Dhabi
Egyptian GM Bassem Amin has won the 24th Abu Dhabi Masters with 7.5/9 and is now only 7 rating points short of becoming the first African 2700 player. Nigel Short is only 2 points away from returning to the 2700 club himself at the age of 52, and would have made it if he’d won a good position against Amin in the final round. Instead he was lucky he offered a draw in time to avoid defeat and finish half a point behind in 2nd place. 7 players finished another half point back, including 12-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who claimed his 2nd GM norm.
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Norway Chess 8: Magnus (& MVL) are back!
Magnus Carlsen will now remain world no. 1 on the July rating list after finally grabbing a win in the penultimate round of the 2017 Altibox Norway Chess tournament. His risky decision to sac a pawn in time trouble against Sergey...
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Norway Chess 7: Carlsen’s no. 1 in peril after Kramnik loss
Vladimir Kramnik beat Magnus Carlsen for the first time in 7 years to move within a mere 6.4 rating points of stealing the World Champion’s no. 1 spot. An out-of-form Carlsen would now need to win both remaining games simply to r...
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Norway Chess 6: Lev traps another champ’s queen
Levon Aronian has beaten Vladimir Kramnik to catch Hikaru Nakamura in the Altibox Norway Chess lead with only three rounds remaining. He did it by trapping the ex-World Champion’s queen, recalling his victory over the current Wor...
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Norway Chess 5: Carlsen's slump continues
Magnus Carlsen was angry with himself after stumbling into a worse position with the white pieces against Anish Giri before taking a draw that leaves him 1.5 points behind leader Hikaru Nakamura with four rounds of Altibox Norway ...
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Norway Chess 4: Aronian stuns Carlsen
“More or less everything that you would want from a chess game” is how Peter Svidler described Levon Aronian beating Magnus Carlsen for the 2nd year in a row at Altibox Norway Chess. There was mayhem wherever you looked, as Hikaru ...
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Norway Chess 3: 5 draws, 2 thrillers
Magnus Carlsen called Hikaru Nakamura’s play in a Najdorf Sicilian “insanely risky”, but ended happy to have escaped with a draw. The other four games were also drawn in Round 3 of Altibox Norway Chess, but Levon Aronian in parti...
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Norway Chess 2: Nostalgic Kramnik beats Anand
Vladimir Kramnik beat Vishy Anand with the black pieces in Round 2 of Altibox Norway Chess on a day when he reflected that six of the players in the tournament had not yet been born when he first played Vishy back in 1989. The ot...
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Jan’s Opening Clinic: 1.d4 Repertoire Special
Some thought this day would never come, but Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson’s 4-part video series on how to counter 1.d4 is finally complete. The last episode focuses on how to meet such popular sidelines as the London System and the ...
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Norway Chess 1: Nakamura draws first blood
Hikaru Nakamura pounced on a mistake by Anish Giri to grind out an endgame victory and take the sole lead after Round 1 of Altibox Norway Chess 2017. We have Peter Svidler’s analysis of that game. All the other encounters were dr...
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Carlsen crushes Altibox Norway Chess blitz
Magnus Carlsen won six games and drew three on the way to a stunning victory in the opening blitz tournament of the 2017 edition of Norway Chess. His 7.5/9 left him a full two points ahead of Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian, wh...
