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World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen vs Caruana - Chess.com
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana in game three of the rapid playoff to clinch the 2018 world chess championship. After 12 draws in the classical ...
World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen vs Caruana - Chess.com
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana in game three of the rapid playoff to clinch the 2018 world chess championship. After 12 draws in the classical ...
World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen vs Caruana - Chess.com
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana in game three of the rapid playoff to clinch the 2018 world chess championship. After 12 draws in the classical ...
World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen vs Caruana - Chess.com
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana in game three of the rapid playoff to clinch the 2018 world chess championship. After 12 draws in the classical ...
World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen-Caruana - Chess.com
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Fabiano Caruana (USA) has earned the right to challenge the world champion by winning the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, in March of this year in Berlin. He is 26 years old and a former chess prodigy as well; he earned the grandmaster title when he was ...
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World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen-Caruana - Chess.com
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We've had the Candidates and the Olympiad, but the biggest event of 2018 is yet to come. In 32 days, the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will start in London. Let's start early and provide you with all the ...
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What winning move did world champion Ju Wenjun miss? - Financial Times
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China won double gold in the open and women's Olympiads at Batumi last week, where Fabiano Caruana, who led the US team to silver, went close to the world No1 ranking. Magnus Carlsen, who defends his global crown in a 12-game series in London ...
Liverpool fullback Alexander-Arnold to test chess ability against world champ Carlsen - Tribal Football
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The World Chess Championship Match this November will see Carlsen, the reigning world champion since 2013, take on American Fabiano Caruana to determine the 2018 World Chess Champion. The 12-game match, organized by FIDE and World Chess, ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe
In the eighth, they won a stirring match against the Azeris, where Fabiano Caruana ground down the world's No. 3 player, Shak Mamedyarov, and Sam Shankland won an excellent rook and pawn endgame on board 4 to clinch the match (Wesley So had lost ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe
But the big disappointment was on board 3, where the struggling Hikaru Nakamura lost a dreary game. Sigh! This loss certainly puts a question to whether the men can repeat, but all is not lost with two rounds to go. In the 10th round, they will face ...
Quadruple Olympiad gold for China: 16 conclusions - chess24
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Peru finished a disappointing 49th, but they had the top performer at the Olympiad, 23-year-old Jorge Cori, whose 2925 rating performance on board 3 bettered that of Ding Liren (2873) and Fabiano Caruana (2859). Ian Nepomniachtchi should perhaps be ...
Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish ...The Guardian
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Quadruple Olympiad gold for China: 16 conclusions - chess24
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Hikaru Nakamura, meanwhile, found himself in the unfamiliar role of being the weak link. He won the first game against a 2300-player, before a sequence of six draws in a row. Those did little harm to the team, but the run ended with a match-losing ...
How China conquered the Batumi Olympiad 2018 with a double gold - Chessbase News
The excitement levels had gone off the charts for the final round of the Batumi Olympiad 2018. The strongest teams were fighting against each other to decide ...
Chess Olympiad: China Wins Double Gold - Chess.com
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Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren would both try to pace their nations on the final day, but like the other board ones, the game fizzled early. Caruana labored to find a way to avoid a repetition, but ultimately decided that avoiding it would not be ...
Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish fifthThe Guardian
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Chess Olympiad: China Wins Double Gold - Chess.com
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Hikaru Nakamura, sitting on only an even score and uncharacteristically benched in the penultimate round, was inserted back into the lineup. And he had white. USA Team Captain John Donaldson said that re-inserting him was an "easy choice." Nakamura ...
Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish fifthThe Guardian
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Chinese Open, women's teams take gold; US earns silver at chess Olympiad - Washington Times
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Washington Times
China scored a rare double as its Open and women's teams both claimed the gold medal at the 43rd Chess Olympiad that concluded Friday in Batumi, Georgia. In the 185-nation Open competition, China edged the U.S. and Russia on tiebreaks after all three ...
Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish ...The Guardian
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Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish fourth - The Guardian
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Led by the world title challenger Fabiano Caruana, with three top-10 grandmasters, and the same team that won gold in 2016, the Americans were clear favourites. They had problems, though, due to the poor form of their third board Hikaru Nakamura, who ...
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Chess: China secure both Olympiad titles while England men finish fourth - The Guardian
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They had problems, though, due to the poor form of their third board Hikaru Nakamura, who scored only 50%. The US led with three rounds to go, but were set back by a ninth-round loss to Poland where Nakamura chose the risky Scandinavian Defence 1 e4 ...
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Liverpool and England star Trent Alexander-Arnold to take on world CHESS champion day after Manchester City clash - The Sun
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Carlsen has been world champion since 2013 and will take on American Fabiano Caruana to determine the 2018 title next month. While Alexander-Arnold has it all to do, even with a bit of help, the teenager may fancy his chances - having played chess his ...
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Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold reveals secret love of chess and outlines plan to 'shock' the world champion ... - Daily Mail
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Liverpool teenager Trent Alexander-Arnold has revealed his secret love for chess and is set to put his talent to the test against the current world champion. While many players his age are whiling away the hours playing video games such as Fortnite, ...
Liverpool and England star Trent Alexander-Arnold to take on world CHESS champion day after Manchester City clashThe Sun
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