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Wesley So is Player of the Year - BusinessWorld Online Edition

Mon, 01/23/2017 - 9:47am

Wesley So is Player of the Year
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Fabiano Caruana (USA). Second highest-rated player in the world behind Magnus. Won the US Championship ahead of Wesley and Nakamura, played successfully for the USA in the Baku Olympiad and won the strong Isle of Man Open together with Pavel ...

Chess World No. 2, Fabiano Caruana, is top seed at Tradewise - Gibraltar Chronicle

Mon, 01/23/2017 - 12:03am

Chess World No. 2, Fabiano Caruana, is top seed at Tradewise
Gibraltar Chronicle
Chess Grand Master Fabiano Caruana is looking forward to playing in “one of the strongest open tournaments in history” as the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival opens this week. Caruana is the current US champion and world No 2 and is the top-rated ...

So keeps lead despite second straight draw - Inquirer.net

Sun, 01/22/2017 - 1:49pm

Inquirer.net

So keeps lead despite second straight draw
Inquirer.net
3 behind Carsen and fellow US stalwart Fabiano Caruana, an absentee in the tournament with an average rating of 2751. The second-seeded So, board 3 gold medalist in the Baku Chess Olympiad and overall winner of the 2016 Chess Tour, is battling ...

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So settles for draw but keeps Tata Steel lead - Inquirer.net

Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:12pm

Inquirer.net

So settles for draw but keeps Tata Steel lead
Inquirer.net
3 world ranking behind Carlsen (2843.4) and fellow US stalwart Fabiano Caruana (2827). Packed in a logjam at 3.5 points were Aronian, Dutch Anish Giri, who trounced Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Chinese Wei Yi, who downed Hungarian Richard ...

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Faces of the News - Inquirer.net

Sat, 01/21/2017 - 10:50am

Inquirer.net

Faces of the News
Inquirer.net
Wesley watched his ELO rating rise to a personal best of 2819.4, the seventh-highest rating in history. Not only that, he has now climbed the rankings to be the No. 3 in the world, behind Magnus Carlsen (2843.4) and fellow US stalwart Fabiano Caruana ...

Pestaño: No-loss performances against elite players - Sun.Star

Thu, 01/19/2017 - 9:49am

Pestaño: No-loss performances against elite players
Sun.Star
THERE are several kinds of no loss performances in chess. It can be based on most consecutive wins, the most number of games played, perfect score in a single tournament and longest time played without a loss. It can only be called outstanding if the ...

PRO Chess League: Bringing Chess into Mainstream Sports Culture - KBIA

Thu, 01/19/2017 - 6:01am

KBIA

PRO Chess League: Bringing Chess into Mainstream Sports Culture
KBIA
Additionally, the top three American players (Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura) are competing. In the six-week regular season, teams face off across five divisions grouped by time zone and global region. Matches are played on Chess.com, ...

PRO Chess League: Bringing Chess into Mainstream Sports Culture - St. Louis Public Radio

Thu, 01/19/2017 - 5:33am

St. Louis Public Radio

PRO Chess League: Bringing Chess into Mainstream Sports Culture
St. Louis Public Radio
Additionally, the top three American players (Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura) are competing. In the six-week regular season, teams face off across five divisions grouped by time zone and global region. Matches are played on Chess.com, ...

Wesley shares No.2 with four players - The Manila Times

Tue, 01/17/2017 - 8:30am

Wesley shares No.2 with four players
The Manila Times
... Eljanov meets Adhiban, Aronian faces Nepomniatchtchi, Carlsen takes on Wei, Giri tackles Andreikin, Rapport fights Wojtaszek, and Harikrishna battles Karjakin. So is looking to surpass his fourth-place finish last year behind Carlsen, GM Fabiano ...

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Gibraltar Chess Tournament Has Become a Major Draw - New York Times (blog)

Sun, 01/15/2017 - 11:06am

New York Times (blog)

Gibraltar Chess Tournament Has Become a Major Draw
New York Times (blog)
23; Fabiano Caruana of Italy, No. 25; Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, No. No. 40; Viktor Bologan of Moldova, No. 44; Krishnan Sasikiran of India, No. 45; and Alexander Onischuk of the United States, No. 46. In all, there are 53 grandmasters. In ...

Move of the year, chess tournament life - AL.com

Sun, 01/15/2017 - 8:03am

AL.com

Move of the year, chess tournament life
AL.com
American grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So moved up to number 2 and 4 in the world. Closer to home, Alabama's Rochelle Wu won the World Cadet Girls Under 10 Championship and is ranked number one in the world for Girls Under 12.

Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Sat, 01/14/2017 - 3:24pm

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
And please let's not forget the always-interesting Richard Rapport and Wei Yi, the world's two best junior players. It's a strange field in that Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik, and Viswanathan Anand are not playing; perhaps they ...

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Absence of rivals means Magnus Carlsen can aim for supremacy at Wijk - The Guardian

Fri, 01/13/2017 - 4:13pm

The Guardian

Absence of rivals means Magnus Carlsen can aim for supremacy at Wijk
The Guardian
Carlsen has a good opportunity because three of his major rivals, the world No2, Fabiano Caruana, and the dangerous Hikaru Nakamura from the US as well as France's world No5, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, have all preferred to play at Tradewise Gibraltar, ...

So good for 2016 Player of the Year - Inquirer.net

Thu, 01/12/2017 - 11:17am

Inquirer.net

So good for 2016 Player of the Year
Inquirer.net
As a result of his checkered board exploits, So raised his Elo rating to 2808, only the 12th player to breach the 2800 barrier, and jumped to fourth in the world rankings behind Carlsen (2840), fellow US stalwart Fabiano Caruana (2827) and Russia's ...

On Chess: What to look forward to in 2017 - St. Louis Public Radio

Wed, 01/11/2017 - 10:54pm

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: What to look forward to in 2017
St. Louis Public Radio
Fabiano Caruana and Nazi Paikidze each won their very first U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship respectively. While it's hard to say what 2017 will bring, there are many exciting and prestigious events to look forward to. Mark your ...

PH's Nouri presses on in Delhi International Chess Championship - The Manila Times

Wed, 01/11/2017 - 9:29am

PH's Nouri presses on in Delhi International Chess Championship
The Manila Times
GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway is on top with 2840 followed by GM Fabiano Caruana of US (2827) and GM Vladimir Kramnik of Russia (2811). Also in the Top 10 are No. 5 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France (2796), No. 6 GM Viswanathan Anand of India ...

Ex-Patriots Propelling US Chess Federation to the Top - http://www.anewdomain.net/

Sun, 01/08/2017 - 8:51pm

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Ex-Patriots Propelling US Chess Federation to the Top
http://www.anewdomain.net/
Another young man who has petitioned (and most likely will be allowed) to switch federations is Fabiano Caruana. A dual citizen of Italy and the U.S., Caruana recently and soundly defeated the world's No. 1 GM, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, a 24-year-old ...

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Ramesh Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov race to break world record - The Guardian

Fri, 01/06/2017 - 9:29am

The Guardian

Ramesh Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov race to break world record
The Guardian
The opening, a Sicilian Defence Richter Attack, is significant since Karjakin also used it in another decisive game, against Fabiano Caruana in the final round of the 2016 candidates. The result here is effectively settled in a single move when ...

Pestaño: Chess personality of the year - Sun.Star

Thu, 12/29/2016 - 7:55pm

Pestaño: Chess personality of the year
Sun.Star
He won two super tournaments—the Sinquefield Cup and the London Chess Classic against eight of the top 10 players of the world including legends such as Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana and others, In so doing he won ...

Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Sun, 12/25/2016 - 7:55pm

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The talk of the London Chess Classic, besides Wesley So's great result, was the brilliant Fabiano Caruana v. Hikaru Nakamura game that featured a positional queen sacrifice. Though very entertaining, it did bring to mind how we define “brilliant,” as ...

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