2016 Champions Showdown

World Chess Championship: Showdown In New York
High on Sports (blog)
He lost three consecutive games in the GCT Blitz Paris this year against Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri. However the only other players to have defeated the Norwegian wonder-kid in the last 50 games were Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime ...

World Chess Championship: Showdown In New York
High on Sports (blog)
Carlsen's previous loss came in the opening game of the Bilbao Masters against Hikaru Nakamura and is yet to drop any points since then. Out of the eight games he has lost, most of them were in Blitz competition. He lost three consecutive games in the ...

Meet the Russian chess star who's 'more Putin than Putin'
Page Six
9 in the world, seemed suddenly to improve and catapulted to the top of the game with a win over American Fabiano Caruana in March, which put him into this month's final. Carlsen and Karjakin will play each other as many as 12 times at the Fulton Market.
NY / Region|World Chess Championship Kicks Off With VIP TreatmentNew York Times
Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey KarjakinRT
Chess World Championship: Magnus Carlsen faces new challenge in Sergey KarjakinHindustan Times
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Cerebral boxing
Mumbai Mirror
Having won the title twice, both incidentally by beating India's Viswanathan Anand, Carlsen (25) would be better off with the championship match experience as Karjakin, one year older, will be playing in his first ever title contest. But both appear ...
Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey KarjakinRT
The Russian threat to Magnus Carlsen's crownLivemint
Norwegian grandmaster adds sex appeal to chessCTV News
The Hindu -The Indian Express -Hindustan Times
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NY / Region|World Chess Championship Kicks Off With VIP Treatment
New York Times
... also believes that he was abducted by aliens and that the game of chess originated elsewhere in the universe.) And four top players, including Fabiano Caruana, the top-rated American who grew up in Brooklyn, were competing in a tournament in St. Louis.
Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey KarjakinRT
Chess World Championship: Magnus Carlsen faces new challenge in Sergey KarjakinHindustan Times
The Bizarre Politics of the World Chess ChampionshipThe Weekly Standard (blog)
The Indian Express -The Local Norway -Yahoo Sports
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Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey Karjakin
RT
Carlsen claimed the title in 2013 when he beat Indian rival Viswanathan Anand in a series that led to more internet searches in Norway about the game than for football. When he defended the title against Anand in a rematch the following year over half ...
The Russian threat to Magnus Carlsen's crownLivemint
Can Karjakin trump Carlsen?The Hindu
World Chess Championship: Two-time champion Magnus Carlsen faces challenge of Russia's Sergey KarjakinThe Indian Express
Hindustan Times -The Sun Daily -Malay Mail Online
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Chess Cold War? Magnus Carlsen v Sergey Karjakin
RT
The Russian defeated third-ranked Fabiano Caruana of the United States at the Candidates' Tournament in Moscow to reach the world championship, but is a big underdog against current world number one Carlsen. Chess has recently seen a resurgence in ...
Chess World Championship: Magnus Carlsen faces new challenge in Sergey KarjakinHindustan Times
The Bizarre Politics of the World Chess ChampionshipThe Weekly Standard (blog)
World Chess Championship: Two-time champion Magnus Carlsen faces challenge of Russia's Sergey KarjakinThe Indian Express
The Local Norway -Yahoo Sports -Sun.Star
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The Russian threat to Magnus Carlsen's crown
Livemint
In 2013, Carlsen dethroned his Indian rival Viswanathan Anand as world champion. That same year, he made it to the TIME magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Karjakin grew up in Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea.
Can Karjakin trump Carlsen?The Hindu
World Chess Championship: Two-time champion Magnus Carlsen faces challenge of Russia's Sergey KarjakinThe Indian Express
Chess World Championship: Magnus Carlsen faces new challenge in Sergey KarjakinHindustan Times
The Sun Daily -Malay Mail Online
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En pugna, los astros de la nueva generación
Excélsior
... lucha de altísimo nivel en la que compitieron Viswanathan Anand, los estadunidenses Fabiano Caruana e Hikaru Nakamura, el holandés Anish Giri, el siete veces campeón de la URSS, Peter Svídler, el búlgaro Veselin Topalov y el armenio Levon Aronian ...

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Fisher and the 'K's: a history of modern chess
DAWN.com
PARIS: US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two 'K's — Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov — have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s and 80s, the un-telegenic, cerebral game ...

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