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Russian, US Chess Grandmasters Face-Off In World Champions Tournament
The Moscow Times (registration)
The eight participants in the Candidates tournament are all ranked among the top 17: Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Anish Giri of the Netherlands, Viswanathan Anand of India, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana of the United States, Sergei Karjakin and ...

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Russian, US Chess Grandmasters Face-Off In World Champions Tournament
The Moscow Times (registration)
From March 10 to 30, Moscow's historic Central Telegraph building has hosted the FIDE Candidates Tournament — a double round-robin tournament over 14 games. The grandmasters are competing for the right to play against Carlsen in November, a match ...

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Russian, US Chess Grandmasters Face-Off In World Champions Tournament
The Moscow Times (registration)
From March 10 to 30, Moscow's historic Central Telegraph building has hosted the FIDE Candidates Tournament — a double round-robin tournament over 14 games. The grandmasters are competing for the right to play against Carlsen in November, a match ...

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Russian, US Chess Grandmasters Face-Off In World Champions Tournament
The Moscow Times (registration)
Going into the final round on Monday, Sergei Karjakin of Russia and Fabiano Caruana of the United States lead the field and are set to play each other. If the game ends in a draw, the winner is determined by a series of tiebreakers that take into ...

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Russian, US Chess Grandmasters Face-Off In World Champions Tournament
The Moscow Times (registration)
The eight participants in the Candidates tournament are all ranked among the top 17: Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Anish Giri of the Netherlands, Viswanathan Anand of India, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana of the United States, Sergei Karjakin and ...

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Chess notes
The Boston Globe
He does have two great wins over Hikaru Nakamura and Vishy Anand, with no defeats and can look forward to the final four games with confidence. Caruana's win over Anand seems to be very much a victory of his preparation. With his new coach, Rustam ...

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
The candidates tournament has been an exciting, if uneven, event, with many missed opportunities and dogged defensive efforts. Though Fabiano Caruana finds himself in a tie for first after 10 games, it has hardly been a smooth run. He let Sergey ...

Tough ask for Anand
The Hindu
In the remaining two rounds, third-placed Anand (6.5 points) will have to strike rich and hope that the two joint leaders — Fabiano Caruana and Sergey Karjakin (seven points each) do not perform as well. Interestingly, the two young contenders are due ...

Tough ask for Anand
The Hindu
After three defeats offset much of the gains from his four astounding victories, Viswanathan Anand finds himself relying on too many factors to beat the odds in the World Candidates chess tournament and become the challenger to Magnus Carlsen's crown.

Schach-Kandidatenturnier: Fabiano Caruana und Sergey Karjakin bleiben punktgleich
SPIEGEL ONLINE
Schach-Kandidatenturnier: Caruana und Karjakin bleiben punktgleich. Fabiano Caruana und Sergej Karjakin haben an Tag 13 beide Remis gespielt. Damit gehen die Tabellenführer punktgleich in ihr direktes Duell am letzten Turniertag. Karjakin hat jedoch ...
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Schach-WM-Kandidatenturnier im Live-Ticker: Fabiano Caruana vs Pjotr Swidler
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Ich habe ich mich heute als Scherpunkt für die Partie von Fabiano Caruana gegen Piotr Swidler entschieden. Der Amerikaner hat heute ein letztes Mal Weiß und wird sicher versuchen, seinerseits mit einem Sieg gegen den Sankt-Petersburger den Druck auf ...
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Nakamura downs Anand
The Hindu
A day after producing an endgame that invited rare appreciation from chess great Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand crashed to an unexpectedly tame 26-move defeat to Hikaru Nakamura in the 12th round of the World chess candidates championship here ...

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Anand Loses To Nemesis Nakamura Again, Needs Miracle To Win Candidates Tournament
ScoopWhoop
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again suffered a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the 12th round and needs a Herculean effort to stage a comeback in the Candidates Chess tournament now underway. Nakamura has been ...
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Candidates Chess: It's the curse of the black again as Anand loses to a well-prepared Nakamura
Firstpost
Moscow: 'Play for a win with white, and equalize with black', this was the way old school Soviets used to play the game of chess. But then came the modern crop led by Garry Kasparov who hardly cared about the colour of their pieces. All that they ever ...
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Viswanathan Anand loses to Hikaru Nakamura and slips from joint lead
The Asian Age
Viswanathan Anand yet again suffered a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the 12th round and needs a Herculean effort to stage a comeback in the Candidates Chess tournament now underway here. Nakamura has been Anand's nemesis ...
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Anand in dire straits
The Hans India
Moscow: Former world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again suffered a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the 12th round and needs a Herculean effort to stage a comeback in the Candidates Chess tournament now underway here.

Fabiano Caruana shares lead before final two rounds of Moscow Candidates
The Guardian
Fabiano Caruana, born in Miami and raised in Brooklyn, shared the lead with Russia's Sergey Karjakin at the end of Friday's 12th round though with the inferior tie-break. To add to the spice of the United States v Russia climax, which is a mini-rerun ...
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Candidates Chess: Viswanathan Anand Loses to Hikaru Nakamura
NDTVSports.com
Moscow: Former world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again suffered a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the 12th round and needs a Herculean effort to stage a comeback in the Candidates Chess tournament in Moscow. (Read More in ...
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Viswanathan Anand loses to Nakamura and slips from joint lead at Candidates Chess
The Indian Express
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again suffered a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the 12th round and needs a Herculean effort to stage a comeback in the Candidates Chess tournament now underway in Moscow.
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