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U.S. Chess Team Takes Olympiad Gold for First Time in 40 years
PR Newswire (press release)
3 and U.S. Champion; GM Hikaru Nakamura (Sunrise, Fl.), World. No. 6 and four-time U.S. Champion; GM Wesley So (Minnetonka, Minn.), World. No. 7 and current Grand Chess Tour leader. GM Sam Shankland (San Francisco, Cal.); and GM Ray Robson (St.

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42 nd Baku Chess Olympiad
BusinessWorld Online Edition
The United States of America (USA) has just won the Baku Olympiad! They were not the top seed (Russia is seeded no. 1) but with a frontline of Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So they were the only country who can field three players rated ...

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Strong St. Louis ties to chess gold medal - HeraldCourier.com: Sports
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four chess players with St. Louis connections are among a five-person team that won a gold medal at the World Chess Olympiad, the first ...

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Strong St. Louis ties to chess gold medal
The Daily Progress
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2caj5ym ) reports that team members included St. Louis resident Grandmaster Fabio Caruana; former St. Louis resident and past U.S. Chess champion Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura; former Webster University student ...
Sports|US Wins Gold at Chess Olympiad With Help of Imported TalentNew York Times
Chess Olympiad: Indian teams miss medals by a whiskerTimes of India
First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu

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USA voitti shakkiolympialaiset
Keskisuomalainen
Kaksi ottelua päättyi tasapeliin. Voittajajoukkueessa pelasivat suurmestarit Fabiano Caruana (7 pistettä 10 pelistä), Hikaru Nakamura (7,5/11), Wesley So (8,5/10), Samuel Shankland (5,5/8) ja Ray Robson (3/5). USAn voitto oli historiallinen. Edellisen ...

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Chess Olympiad: Indian teams miss medals by a whisker
Times of India
PUNE: Both Indian teams failed to win a medal in the Chess Olympiad that concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. While the men's campaign ended in an uneventful manner, the women failed to beat USA and settled for the fifth spot. The men's fourth ...

Chess Olympiad: Indian teams miss medals by a whisker
Times of India
PUNE: Both Indian teams failed to win a medal in the Chess Olympiad that concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. While the men's campaign ended in an uneventful manner, the women failed to beat USA and settled for the fifth spot. The men's fourth ...
First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu
Chess Olympiad: India's Men and Women teams wilt under pressure to taste first defeatFirstpost
US trounce Indian men in Chess OlympiadBusiness Standard
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Sports|US Wins Gold at Chess Olympiad With Help of Imported Talent
New York Times
So has said that he paid his own transfer fees to make that happen, but when he and Caruana joined Hikaru Nakamura, the world's sixth-ranked player, on the United States team, it created a formidable lineup. (Teams at the Chess Olympiad are composed of ...
First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu
US trounce Indian men in Chess OlympiadTimes of India
Chess Olympiad: India's Men and Women teams wilt under pressure to taste first defeatFirstpost
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Chess players with St. Louis ties win gold medal at international chess competition
STLtoday.com
St. Louis resident Grandmaster Fabio Caruana, former St. Louis resident and past U.S. Chess champion Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, former Webster University student and Sinquefield Cup champion Grandmaster Wesley So and current Webster ...

U.S. wins first gold in four decades at chess Olympiad
Washington Times
Caruana joined with fellow world top-ten GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So to head the most powerful U.S. team in decades. GMs Samuel Shankland and Ray Robson also contributed key points in the two-week biennial event. Ukraine took the silver and ...
First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu
US trounce Indian men in Chess OlympiadTimes of India
Chess Olympiad: India's Men and Women teams wilt under pressure to taste first defeatFirstpost
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First defeat for India
The Hindu
Open: India (12) lost to USA (13) 0.5-3.5 (P. Hari Krishna drew with Fabiano Caruana; B. Adhiban lost to Hikaru Nakamura; Vidit Gujrathi lost to Wesley So; S. P. Sethuraman lost to Samuel Shankland). Latvia (12) bt the Netherlands (10) 3-1; Russia (12 ...

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Chess Olympiad: India's Men and Women teams wilt under pressure to taste first defeat
Firstpost
The USA team features a star-studded line up of Fabiano Caruana (Rated 2811 and ranked second in the world), Hikaru Nakamura (2792, sixth in the world) and Wesley So (2787, seventh in the world), joined by Samuel Shankland (2679, ranks under top 60 ...
First loss for India in both sectionsThe Hindu
US trounce Indian men in Chess OlympiadTimes of India
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First loss for India in both sections
The Hindu
Among the other three, S.P. Sethuraman threw away an overwhelmingly winning position to crash to a shattering defeat against the lesser-rated L. Samuel Shankland. B. Adhiban and Vidit Gujrathi surrendered to World No. 6 Hikaru Nakamura and World No.
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US trounce Indian men in Chess Olympiad
Times of India
CHENNAI: The Indian men's chess team suffered their first defeat -- by a comprehensive 3.5-0.5 margin -- against a much stronger team from the United States in the seventh round of the World Chess Olympiad being held in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday.

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Uganda gets off to flying start at Baku Chess Olympiad
New Vision
The strongest team of the tournament are Russia with an average rating of 2760; the United States has the second strongest team with three top ten players, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So, along with Ray Robson and Samuel Shankland.

On Chess: U.S. team poised for possible gold at the chess Olympiad
St. Louis Public Radio
Hikaru Nakamura, coming off an impressive victory at the 2016 Paris Grand Chess Tour, holds board two. The 2016 Sinquefield Cup winner, Wesley So, outclasses many opponents on board three. Rounding out the team on board four is Sam Shankland, ...

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Big chess matches loom as U.S. fights for Olympiad gold
Washington Times
GMs Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So are clearly the Big Three for the U.S. team, all with ratings in the world's top 10. But the team's hopes may rest crucially on the play of GMs Samuel Shankland and Ray Robson on Board 4. Robson has already ...

Ray Robson: Venue and playing conditions are simply fantastic
AzerNews
Grandmaster Ray Robson from the United States of America joined Susan Polgar in the press center shortly after concluding his game with a draw, thus securing victory for his team against Argentina, Caruana and Wesley So having scored two wins earlier.

Chess Notes
The Boston Globe
The team consists of US champion Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Ray Robson, and Brandeis's Sam Shankland. Though very strong, I think we are playing for 3rd. The Russians are very determined to capture their first gold medal since ...