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Carlsen, So In Grand Chess Tour; Kramnik Declines
Chess.com
Besides Carlsen and So, they are Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, and Levon Aronian. These nine players will all compete in the 2017 Sinquefield Cup (31 July-12 ...

Wesley So pushes unbeaten streak to 56 with Tata Steel chess win
Washington Times
The 23-year-old So, now ranked second in the world behind only Carlsen, appears to have leapfrogged his two American rivals, GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, to emerge as a prime candidate to challenge the Norwegian for the world crown in ...

Rules star-studded Tata with final round win Wesley ranks world No. 2
Philippine Star
2 GM Fabiano Caruana (2816.) and closer to Carlsen (2838.3). Sportshub ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1. Holding to a 0.5 lead over three pursuers, including Carlsen, Aronian and Wei, heading to the final round, So pounced on what ...
Minnetonka chess player ranked No. 2 in world after latest super tournament winMinneapolis Star Tribune
WESLEY SO WINS WORLD'S STRONGEST CHESS TOURNAMENTPhilBoxing.com
So wins Tata Steel chess crown, climbs to no. 2 in world rankingsThe Standard

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Minnetonka chess player ranked No. 2 in world after latest super tournament win
Minneapolis Star Tribune
2 spot in the world rankings and is now the top U.S. player, moving ahead of fellow American Fabiano Caruana, who lost Sunday in a separate tournament in Gibraltar and slipped below So in the rankings. During his string of super tournament victories, ...
So wins Tata Steel chess crown, climbs to no. 2 in world rankingsThe Standard

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So wins Tata Steel chess crown, climbs to no. 2 in world rankings
The Standard
Because of his title conquest, So has unofficially dislodged Fabiano Caruana for the world no. 2 ranking with an ELO rating of 2822. His current official ELO rating is 2808. On other hand, Carlsen is still at no. 1 spot. “I set up my goals to win this ...

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MLK Day chess tournament top prizes, Aronian's brilliancy
AL.com
In the Masters Section, 255 players from around the world are playing, including American champion and world number two Fabiano Caruana, former U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura, world number 5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, France, and World Rapid ...

Magnus Carlsen blunders at Wijk and puts world No1 ranking under threat
The Guardian
Carlsen plays the two final rounds at Wijk while the world No2, Fabiano Caruana, is in action at Tradewise Gibraltar – the most important Open on the European calendar. The world No3, Wesley So, was half a point clear at Wijk after round 11 of 13 and ...

Chief Minister visits Chess Festival
GBC News
Mr Picardo thanked all the competitors for being in Gibraltar. The Chief Minister met with the World Number 2 Fabiano Caruana, as well as the Festival organisers and was also interviewed by International Master Jovanka Houska, which was live streamed ...

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So increases distance from Carlsen, 4 others
Inquirer.net
... to a personal-best 2820.1, seventh highest ever in history and good for world No. 3, as he closed in on No. 2 Fabiano Caruana (2824). The 14-man single round-robin tournament took its last break Thursday and will resume Friday with So battling ...

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Pestaño: Open tournaments patronized by elites
Sun.Star
The top 10 players are Fabiano Caruana - 2827 [USA], Maxime Vachier-Lagrave- 2796 (France), Hikaru Nakamura - 2785 (USA), Vassily Ivanchuk - 2752 (Ukraine), Michael Adams - 2751 (England), Peter Svidler - 2748 (Russia), Veselin Topalov - 2739 ...

So clings to lead; Carlsen gains
Inquirer.net
... (4.5) is pitted against lowly countryman Van Wely (1.5). As a result of his fourth straight draw after a three-win run, So's live rating fell to 2815.9, still good for No. 3 in the world behind Carlsen and absentee Fabiano Caruana, also of the US ...

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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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