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Results (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Fifth event of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour
Official Website (139 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The third regular event of the 2022 Meltwater Champions.
Official Website (154 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The second event of the Grand Chess Tour in 2022.
Official Website (135 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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First major event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour
Official Website (111 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Leg 3 of the FIDE Grand Prix, organized by World Chess, is divided into four pools. The players in each pool play a double round-robin with the four winners advancing to the knockout stage.
Official Website (66 games, 16 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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The Charity Cup is the second stage of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Begins with a preliminary 16-player round-robin with the top 8 players progressing to the knockout stage.
Official Website (150 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Leg 2 of the FIDE Grand Prix, organized by World Chess, is divided into four pools. The players in each pool play a double round-robin with the four winners advancing to the knockout stage.
Official Website (56 games, 16 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The Spring Chess Classic is the first event of the Classic Chess series, organized by Saint Louis Chess Club.
Official Website (92 games, 20 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Airthings Masters is the first event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. It starts with a preliminary 16 player round-robin.
Official Website (149 games, 16 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 is a series of three chess tournaments and the final qualifier for the Candidates Tournament. Official site
(60 games, 16 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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A 9-round swiss tournament with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then an additional 30 minutes for the rest of game, with a 30-second increment from move one.
Official Website (92 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Iberoamericano is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from February 12th to Feb 19th 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. It includes 18 Grand Masters and participants from 23 countries. Live Games
(346 games, 141 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Azerbaijan Championship will be held in Nahchivan from 4 to 18 February 2022. The total prize fund of the championship is 22.000 AZN. Live Games
(117 games, 24 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Battle of the Sexes. The venue being the historic Gibraltar Garrison Library. Official site
(100 games, 22 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 84th Tata Steel Chess tournament will take place January 14-30, 2022 in De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Live Games Link
New Tiebreak Rules
(88 games, 14 players, 14 discussion pages.)
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14 Players. Polina Shuvalova and Zhu Jiner, both making their debut. Live Games Link
(91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page.)
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12-player round-robin tournament. Live Games
(61 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The FIDE World Rapid Women (541 games, 101 players, 1 discussion page.)
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CG (1,844 games, 179 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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CG (874 games, 104 players, no discussion.)
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7th Gashimov Memorial Baku. Azerbaijan Dec 17-24 2021 The Gashimov Memorial 2021 is a rapid and blitz chess tournament. Eight players, including Vishy Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin and Shakriyar Mamedyarov, are participating in the six-day event. (121 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The Silesian Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union, organises the European Rapid&Blitz Chess Championship 2021. The event is taking place from 17th-19th December in Katowice, Poland. (656 games, 293 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Expo 2020 Exhibition Centre, Dubai (11 games, 2 players, 63 discussion pages.)
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The 14th European Team Championship (Women) (2021) is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 11th to the 21st of November 2021 in the Terme Cate Complex, Slovenia. Each member of the European Chess Union can enter a team of 4 players. More (540 games, 154 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The FIDE Grand Swiss 2021 Tournament forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship in 2022. It is an 11 round Swiss-system event with 108 players. The tournament is being held in the Latvian capital, Riga. It will run from October 25th through November 8th. (594 games, 108 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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The FIDE women's Grand Swiss is also running concurrently with the FIDE Grand Swiss 2021 Tournament and forms part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship next year. (275 games, 50 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Superfinals of the 74th Russian championship took place between the 9th and 20th of October in the city of Ufa. The tournament was an 11 round all play all event. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Superfinals of the 71st Russian women's championship took place between the 9th and 20th of October in the city of Ufa. The tournament was an 11 round all play all event. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The U.S. Championship features 12 players competing for $194,000 in prize money and qualification into the World Championship cycle. (69 games, 12 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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The U.S. Women Championship features 12 players competing for $100,000 in prize money and qualification into the Women's World Championship cycle. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final is the 10th and last event of the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2020-2021. A 10-player round-robin tournament over 10 days, the games are played online from 25 September to 4 October on the chess24 Playzone. (207 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The 25th European Club Cup for Women was held from 18-24 September 2019 at Hotel Drim in Struga, North Macedonia. The tournament was a 7-round Swiss team event played with the standard time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 more minutes till the end of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. (111 games, 40 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 36th European Club Cup was held from 18-24 September 2019 at Hotel Izgrev in Struga, North Macedonia. It was a 7-round Swiss team event, with the time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 more minutes till the end of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. (746 games, 262 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Tolstoy Memorial consists of 9 rounds with a time control of 15 minutes and 10 second increments starting from move 1. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Norway Chess Tournament is a double round-robin that consists of 10 rounds. Time control is 120 minutes with 10 second increments after move 40. (44 games, 6 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Aimchess US Rapid starts with a 16-player round robin, with the top 8 advancing to the finals. The time control is 15 minutes plus a 10-second increment. (176 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The European Individual Chess Championship 2021 is an 11-round swiss tournament with a prize fund of 100,000EUR. (720 games, 180 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Sinquefield Cup is a 10-player round robin taking place at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. It is the final event of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour with a prize fund of $325,000. (45 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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The FIDE World Cup is a 206-player elimination event, taking place at Sochi, Russia. (584 games, 198 players, 9 discussion pages.)
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The FIDE World Cup (women) is a 103-player elimination event, taking place at Sochi, Russia. (287 games, 101 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Goldmoney Asian Rapid was the 7th event of the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2020-2021. It started with a 16-player round robin on the first three days (time control 15 minutes for all moves, with 10 seconds added per move from move 1) from which the first eight players qualified for an elimination (knockout) phase on the last six days (29 June - 4 July). (185 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The Superbet Chess Classic (GCT Bucharest Classic) is the first of five events of the $1,275,000 Grand Chess Tour 2021. The 10-player round robin takes place in the Sheraton Bucharest Hotel in Bucharest, Romania, 5-14 June 2021. (44 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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The 2020 Candidates Tournament is an 8-player double round-robin that will decide Magnus Carlsen's challenger for the World Championship match that is set to take place in Dubai in November 2021. The 14-round event is being played in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Yekaterinburg, Russia from 17 March to 3 April 2020 (rounds 1-7) and, after a long Covid-19 break, from 19 to 27 April 2021 (rounds 8-14).
Tournament Page - Official Site (56 games, 8 players, 115 discussion pages.)
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Magnus Carlsen Invitational is a 16-player single round robin. The time control is 15 minutes, with a 10-second increment per move. (182 games, 16 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Opera Euro Rapid started with a 16-player round robin on the first three days, from which the eight best players qualified for an elimination (knockout) phase on the last six days. (184 games, 16 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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The 2021 Tata Steel Masters is a 14-player single round-robin with Magnus Carlsen heading the field. (91 games, 14 players, 19 discussion pages.)
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Grandmaster Wesley So won the 2020 U.S. Chess Championship and its $40,000 1st place prize, with up-and-coming 19-year-old GM Jeffery Xiong garnering $25,000 for 2nd place. In other events, GM John Burke, 19, won the U.S. Junior Championship and GM Joel Benjamin, 56, coasted to victory in the U.S. Senior Championship.
Tournament Page - Official Site (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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This online 10-player rapid Chess960 single round-robin featured the strongest lineup: Carlsen, Kasparov, Caruana, Nakamura, So, Dominguez, Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Svidler, and Firouzja, and concluded with Carlsen and Nakamura as co-winners.
Tournament Page - Official Site (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The lineup for the grand finale of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour consisted of Carlsen, Dubov, Nakamura, and Ding.Carlsen won the event, and the Tour, by defeating Nakamura in the final Armageddon tiebreak game.
Tournament Page - Official Site (69 games, 4 players, 18 discussion pages.)
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This large Online Rapid knockout event, held on the chess.com server, started off with 163 teams playing in the first stage. Teams India and Russia have been declared joint winners, after two Indian players lost their internet connection during the final round.
Tournament Page - Official Site (5,181 games, 1621 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 4th Rapid event of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour concluded with Carlsen defeating Nepomniachtchi in the final. The star-studded lineup also featured former World Champions Anand and Kramnik, as well as younger generation Ding and Giri, and veterans Svidler, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Leko.
Tournament Page - Official Site (218 games, 10 players, 11 discussion pages.)
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Radoslaw Wojtaszek won the main event of the traditional Biel International Chess Festival. This OTB triathlon featured 8 GMs competing in all 3 time formats.
Tournament Page - Official Site (112 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen eliminated Anish Giri in the final to win the 3rd Rapid event in the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. The 12-player $150,000 tournament featured the world's top six players, eight of the Top 10, six of the Candidates (plus Teimour Radjabov), the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge finalists Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov, and Tour debutants Harikrishna and Vladislav Artemiev.
Tournament Page - Official Site (126 games, 12 players, 9 discussion pages.)
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The second Cluch Chess rapid knockout event organized by the St. Louis Chess Club featured a top-level international lineup of 8 players. Carlsen won the event, defeating Caruana in closely contested finals.
Tournament Page - Official Site (84 games, 8 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The Chinese team won this online rapid team competition with many of the world's strongest players, held on Chess.com, while the USA team placed second, against Russia, Europe, India, and a "Rest of the World" team.
Tournament Page - Official Site (124 games, 36 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Tomashevsky, Gelfand, Shirov, and Najer were the victorious Kings,against Princes Sarana, Esipenko, Yuffa, and Lomasov.
Tournament Page - Official Site (48 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 14-player field of the Masters section features some of the world's strongest veterans, including World Champion Magnus Carlsen, as well as several very promising young stars.
Masters - Challengers - Official Site (91 games, 14 players, 46 discussion pages.)
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen clinched the Triple Crown - Classical, Rapid and Blitz - after defending his Blitz Champion title in a playoff game against Hikaru Nakamura.
Tournament Pages:
Open - Women - Official Site (2,159 games, 206 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi won the Jerusalem event, also finishing second in the 2019 Grand Prix series, with Alexander Grischuk taking first place overall. Both GM's qualify for the 2020 Candidate Tournament to decide who will challenge the inimitable reigning Champion Magnus Carlsen in a head-to-head match for the World Crown.
Tournament Page - Official Site (65 games, 16 players, 18 discussion pages.)
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The finale of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour was fought out as part of the London Chess Classic, with China's Ding Liren triumphing over MVL to win the overall 2019 GCT title and take home a purse of $150,000.
Tournament Page - Official Site (34 games, 4 players, 9 discussion pages.)
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Team Russia swept Gold in both the Open and Women's sections, while Ukraine took Silver in the Men's section, with England winning Bronze. Silver and Bronze for the Women's section went to Georgia and Azerbaijan, respectively.
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Open - Women - Official Site (720 games, 198 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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GM Ding Liren swept the 2-game Blitz tiebreak phase against World Champion Magnus Carlsen to win this prestigious event. Liren stands 2nd overall in the Grand Chess Tour, whose winner qualifies for the 2020 Candidates match.
Tournament Page - Official Site (66 games, 12 players, 26 discussion pages.)
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The top section for this 9-round Swiss tournament has a $50,000 overall first prize, with $10,000 for the top woman.
Tournament Page - Official Site (320 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page.)
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World Champion Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won handily yet again, extending his tournament record to a perfect 8-0 since defending his World Title last November.
Tournament Page - Official Site (66 games, 12 players, 20 discussion pages.)
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Native son and Grandmaster Boris Gelfand won this round-robin invitational event, which featured top GM's from Israel and around the world.
Tournament Page - Official Site (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen has won the GRENKE Chess Classic, outclassing the field with 6 wins and a final score of 7.5/9, which was 1.5 points better than 2nd place finisher GM Fabiano Caruana. Caruana managed 3 wins, and was the only other player to emerge undefeated.
Tournament Page - Official Site (45 games, 10 players, 19 discussion pages.)
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This event saw IM Alina Kashlinskaya prevail to become the 2019 European Women's Individual Champion. The top 14 finishers qualified for the 2020 Women's World Cup.
Tournament Page - Official Site (708 games, 130 players, 1 discussion page.)
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GM Hikaru Nakamura notched his 5th US Championship by winning his final round game with Black. In doing so, the 2019 US Champion also qualified for participation in the World Championship cycle. Meanwhile, WGM Jennifer Yu compiled an amazing score of 9/10, outpacing her closest competition by 2.5 points to become the 2019 US Women's Champion. Tournament pages: US Championship - US Women's Championship - Official Site. (66 games, 12 players, 18 discussion pages.)
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The FIDE World Team Championship featured the strongest national teams from 14 countries. Russia won with 16 match points (MP), ahead of England (13 points) and China (12 points). Tournament pages: Open - Women - Official Site (180 games, 49 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 17th Aeroflot Open was won by Estonian grandmaster Kaido Kulaots, who scored 7 points and edged out GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia via tiebreak. GM Krishnan Sasikiran took third place by himself with 6.5 points. Main Event winner GM Kulaots has qualified for the Super Tournament this summer in Dortmund, Germany, scheduled to be held from July 12-23, 2019. (445 games, 101 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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For the 1st time, the St. Louis Chess Club hosted the Cairns Cup, an elite level tournament for the top women chess players in the world. This 9-round classical tournament saw GM Valentina Gunina take 1st place with 7/9, including five wins, while GM Alexandra Kosteniuk took 2nd, and GM Irina Krush 3rd - both with four wins. Tournament Page - Official Site (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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The 17th Gibraltar Masters saw 20-year-old GM Vladislav Artemiev take top honors with a score 8.5/10, becoming the 20th-ranked GM in the chess world as a result. The 10-round, 250-player open featured notables such as Aronian, MVL, Nakamura and So compete for the £25,000 first prize, while the women's top prize of £15,000 was taken by Tan Zhongyi, who scored 7/10 and tied for 6th place with 16 others. Tournament Page - Official Site (1,199 games, 250 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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The Wimbledon of Chess attracted the greatest grandmasters from around the world, with 2019 marking the 81st year for this prestigious event. GM Magnus Carlsen followed up his recent World Championship victory by handily winning the Tata Steel Masters Section. The Challengers Section saw Vladislav Kovalev take the honors. Immediately after the conclusion of the contest, erstwhile World Champion Vladimir Kramnik formally announced his retirement from competitive professional chess. See the official site for more details. (91 games, 14 players, 26 discussion pages.)
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The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships took place in St. Petersburg, between Dec 26-30. In the Rapid Open section, Daniil Dubov won the crown, ahead of last year's Rapid Champion Viswanathan Anand, and World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who suffered a poor start. In the Rapid Women's section, Ju Wenjun won again and retained her title from last year. The Blitz Open section was won by Carlsen, as in 2017, while in the Blitz Women's section, Kateryna Lagno replaced last year's winner Nana Dzagnidze. Official Site (1,497 games, 204 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The London Chess Classic was a knockout tournament between GCT finalists Fabiano Caruana, Maxim Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, and Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura emerged the victor, besting Caruana in the Semi-Finals and then MVL in the Final, thereby becoming the Grand Chess Tour 2018 Champion. (32 games, 4 players, 17 discussion pages.)
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The World Chess Championship—which pitted reigning title holder Magnus Carlsen of Norway against American challenger Fabiano Caruana—was a 12-game match played at The College of Holborn in London, and organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon. Chessgames.com simulcasted the games LIVE, and after all 12 rounds conducted under Classical time control resulted in draws, it was Magnus Carlsen who dominated the ensuing rapid chess tiebreak round, dashing Fabiano Caruana's hopes by sweeping the first 3 games, ensuring himself of a 3rd successful defense of the world chess title he initially won in 2013. Official Site - Carlsen / Caruana WC Page (15 games, 2 players, 133 discussion pages.)
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The Women's World Chess Championship tournament, played in a 64-player knockout format, was the second women's championship event held this year. Ju Wenjun, who had won the Women's World Championship match in May, advanced to the final and faced off against Kateryna Lahno. After tieing 2-2 in the Classical games and 1-1 in the 25 min + 10-sec tiebreaks, Ju Wenjun won both 10 min + 10-sec tiebreak games, securing her first defense of the women's world title. Official Site - Tournament Page (203 games, 64 players, 9 discussion pages.)
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The Isle of Man International included leading players such as Aronian, Giri, MVL, Kramnik, Wesley So, Anand, Grischuk, Nakamura, Karjakin, Rapport, Wang Hao, Le Quang Liem, & Adams. Radoslaw Wojtaszek finally edged out Arkadij Naiditsch in an Armageddon tie-break game to win the event. (674 games, 165 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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The 34th European Club Cup took place in Porto Carras, with 61 open teams and 12 women's teams (split into two groups). World Champion Magnus Carlsen played his final event before his World Championship defense against Fabiano Caruana. Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg defeated Valerenga Sjakklubb in the final round to win the title. Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won the women's title. (1,177 games, 422 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 43rd Chess Olympiad concluded with China taking double gold by edging out the USA on a tiebreak in the Open section, as well as dominating the Women's section. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion here. Tournament pages: Open Section - Women's Section (4,003 games, 905 players, 38 discussion pages.)
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The 57th World Juniors saw Top seed Maghsoodloo of Iran dominate the event, wrapping up first place with a round to spare. He was defeated in the final round but still won the event by a point from Abhimanyu Puranik of India and Sergei Lobanov of Russia. (897 games, 165 players, no discussion.)
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Untitled Aleksandra Maltsevskaya from Russia won the girls event on tie-break from Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova of Uzbekistan after both scored 8.5/11, Nino Khomeriki took 3rd. (538 games, 98 players, no discussion.)
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The St. Louis Rapid and Blitz featured such players as Grischuk, Caruana, Nakamura, Aronian, MVL, Mamedyarov, Karjakin, Anand, So, and Dominguez. Mamedyarov and Nakamura tied for first in the rapid with 6/9 and shared the honors. MVL dominated in the blitz, making 13.5/18, 3 whole points ahead of the runner up Nakamura. Nakamura was the overall victor, as a result of his joint first place in the Rapid and 2nd in the blitz. (45 games, 10 players, no discussion.)
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The 105th British Chess Championships featured names like Adams, Howell, Jones, Hawkins, Pert, Fodor, and others. Luke McShane and Michael Adams ended up tied for first place. After the rapid tie-break failed to produce a winner, Michael Adams prevailed 2-0 in the blitz tiebreak and emerged as Champion. (287 games, 66 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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9th Hainan Danzhou GM saw Yangyi Yu win with 4.5/7, half a point clear of Le Quang Liem. (28 games, 8 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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This elite international event featured 10 of the strongest chess players in the world, concluding with an unusual, mutually-agreed three way tie for first place, with Fabiano Caruana, World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and Levon Aronian sharing equal honors. (44 games, 10 players, 23 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A double round-robin featuring Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Peter Svidler, David Navara and Nico Georgiadis. Games start 8:00am USA/Eastern. (30 games, 6 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Kramnik, Giri, Nisipeanu, Nepomniachtchi, Kovalev, Meier, Wojtaszek, and Duda. (28 games, 8 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So retained his title beating Vallejo 2-0 in a blitz tie-break in the final. Praggnanandhaa, although finishing last, scored his first victory against So. (16 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Maxim Matlakov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Evgeny Alekseev, Denis Khismatullin, Alexey Dreev, Alexander Motylev, Evgeny Najer, and scores more compete for invitation to the Russian Superfinals. (261 games, 59 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Oksana Gritsayeva leads after 7 rounds. Top seeds include Galliamova, Kovalevskaya, Bodnaruk, Nechaeva, Ovod, and many more. (207 games, 46 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Georg Meier, Anna Muzychuk. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Yu Yangyi won this 6 game rapid event (+3 -0 =3) beating out Li Chao, Wei Yi, and Bu Xiangzhi. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wesley So wins the rapids with 6/9, and Nakamura wins the overall with 23 points. Players Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand. (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hikaru Nakamura wins with 12/18. Players: Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sergey Karjakin, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand. (90 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2018 Grand Chess Tour kicked off in Belgium with Caruana, Mamedyarov, MVL, Karjakin, Giri, So, Nakamura, Grischuk, Aronian, and Anand. Wesley So won the rapid event with 7/9 and the combined event with 22 points overall. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Caruana, Mamedyarov, MVL, Karjakin, Giri, So, Nakamura, Grischuk, Aronian, and Anand. Sergey Karjakin edged out Wesley with 11.5/18. (90 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Caruana wins with 5/8, defeating Aronian, Anand, Carlsen, Mamedyarov, MVL, Karjakin, Nakamura, and Wesley So. Ding Liren had to withdraw due to a bicycle accident after 3 rounds. (39 games, 10 players, 32 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So came out on top with 6/9 in this preliminary blitz match to determine the seedings of the main event. (45 games, 10 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Samuel Shankland won with 9/11. Other top seeds included Jeffery Xiong, Sandro Mareco, Jorge Cori, Emilio Cordova, Sergey Erenburg, Neuris Delgado Ramirez, Ivan Eduardo Morovic-Fernandez, Diego Flores, et al. (839 games, 167 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Players: Nepomniachtchi, Jakovenko, Vidit, Fedoseev, Artemiev, Gelfand, Korobov, Kovalev, Sutovsky and Bologan. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Samuel Shankland won with 7.5/10, defeating Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Aleksey Dreev, David Anton Guijarro, Aleksandr Rakhmanov and Yusnel Bacallao Alonso. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Defending champion Tan Zhongyi played Ju Wenjun in a 10 game match. Ju Wenjun emerged victorious 5.5 to 4.5 and is the new Women's World Champion. (10 games, 2 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The event was won by "The Bronze Horseman" of St. Petersburg, consisting of Peter Svidler, Nikita Vitiugov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Matlakov, et al. (269 games, 71 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The event was won by "Ugra", consisting of Anna Ushenina, Natalia Pogonina, Olga Girya, et al. (214 games, 54 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Sam Shankland won with a stellar +6 -0 =5. Players: Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Alex Onischuk, Ray Robson, Sam Shankland, Varuzhan Akobian, Jeffery Xiong, Alex Lenderman, Awonder Liang, Yaroslav Zherebukh and Zviad Izoria. (66 games, 12 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nazi Paikidze won after defeating Annie Wang in the tiebreaks. Players: Irina Krush, Anna Zatonskih, Tatev Abrahamyan, Nazi Paikidze, Sabina Foisor, Jennifer Yu, Annie Wang, Maggie Feng, Anna Sharevich, Dorsa Derakhshani, Akshita Gorti and Rusudan Goletiani. (66 games, 12 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 5th Vugar Gashimov Memorial included Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Sergey Karjakin, Veselin Topalov, Teimour Radjabov, Rauf Mamedov and David Navara. Carlsen won with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This world class tournament featured Carlsen, Caruana, Anand, Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Vitiugov, Naiditsch, Hou Yifan, Georg Meier, and Matthias Bluebaum. Caruana was in the lead for most of the event and finished a full point ahead, with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 27 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Fabiano Caruana finished a full point in the lead with 9/14, earning the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in November. (56 games, 8 players, 119 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jakovenko, Wojtaszek, Navara, Vallejo Pons, Ivanchuk, Mamedov, Matlakov, Dubov, Naiditsch, Ponomariov, et al. (1,617 games, 302 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Now dubbed "The Bobby Fischer Memorial", this strong open included many GMs including Pavel Eljanov, Gata Kamsky, Richard Rapport, Konstantin Landa, Erwin L'Ami, Ahmed Adly, and Aleksandr Lenderman. The winner was Baskaran Adhiban with 7.5/9. (969 games, 248 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 11th Tal Memorial is a rapid/blitz event featuring Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Daniil Dubov. Anand won with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 11th Tal Memorial is a rapid/blitz event featuring Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Daniil Dubov. Karjakin won with 10/13. (91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladislav Kovalev beat out a strong field including Fedoseev, Vidit, Andreikin, Mamedov, Matlakov, et al. (398 games, 92 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Former world champion Karpov took on three-time women world champion Hou Yifan in a 6-game rapid match, and won 3.5 to 2.5. (6 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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One of the strongest Gibraltar tournaments ever featured Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Ivanchuk, and scores of other top GMs. There was a seven way tie with 7.5/10. Levon Aronian won the event defeating Rapport in the semi-finals and Vachier-Lagrave in the final. (1,229 games, 276 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This super-tournament features Carlsen, Caruana, Giri, Hou Yifan, Jones, Karjakin, Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Matlakov, So, Svidler, Wei Yi, Adhiban, and Anand. Carlsen and Giri shared the lead with 9/13, but Carlsen took the top honors by defeating Giri in the blitz tiebreaks. (91 games, 14 players, 51 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Vidit Santosh Gujrathi won with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This massively strong field features Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Ding Liren, Peter Svidler and countless other top GMs and IMs. Discussion forum now open. (1,000 games, 134 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This massively strong field features Ju Wenjun, Nana Dzagnidze, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Antoaneta Stefanova, Kateryna Lahno, Pia Cramling, Valentina Gunina, Dronavalli Harika, Anna Zatonskih, Marie Sebag and countless more. Discussion forum now open. (736 games, 100 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This massively strong field features Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Ding Liren, Peter Svidler and countless other top GMs and IMs. Discussion forum now open. (1,420 games, 138 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This massively strong field features Ju Wenjun, Nana Dzagnidze, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Antoaneta Stefanova, Kateryna Lahno, Pia Cramling, Valentina Gunina, Dronavalli Harika, Anna Zatonskih, Marie Sebag and countless more. Discussion forum now open. (1,048 games, 100 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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19 year old Maksim Vavulin won with 10/11. Also playing were Ernesto Inarkiev, David Navara, Ruslan Ponomariov, Igor Kovalenko, Sergei Zhigalko, Luke J McShane, Sergey A Fedorchuk, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, et al. (1,095 games, 509 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Sergei Zhigalko won the blitz event with 18/22. Also playing were Ernesto Inarkiev, David Navara, Ruslan Ponomariov, Igor Kovalenko, Luke J McShane, Sergey A Fedorchuk, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, et al. (2,074 games, 491 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladislav Artemiev, Quang Liem Le, Yangyi Yu, Liren Ding, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wang Hao, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Andreikin, Rauf Mamedov, Anton Korobov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Pentala Harikrishna. (42 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nana Dzagnidze, Dronavalli Harika, Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Wenjun Ju, Xue Zhao, Anna Ushenina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Elisabeth Paehtz, Antoaneta Stefanova, Zhongyi Tan and Kateryna Lagno. (41 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladislav Artemiev, Quang Liem Le, Yangyi Yu, Liren Ding, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wang Hao, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Andreikin, Rauf Mamedov, Anton Korobov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Pentala Harikrishna. (132 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nana Dzagnidze, Dronavalli Harika, Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Wenjun Ju, Xue Zhao, Anna Ushenina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Elisabeth Paehtz, Antoaneta Stefanova, Zhongyi Tan and Kateryna Lagno. (131 games, 12 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Some of the greatest players in the world (Carlsen, Karjakin, Grischuk, MVL, Nepomniachtchi, Guseinov) participate in this multi-tiered event that includes blitz chess (5m+2s/m) all the way down to bullet chess (1m+1s/move). The final will be between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. (185 games, 9 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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This year's all-star line up: Carlsen, Caruana, Aronian, Nepomniachtchi, Karjakin, Adams, Anand, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, and So. Fabiano Caruana defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Rapid Tiebreaks after both finished 6/9. Magnus Carlsen's last round victory over Aronian clinched his position as the winner of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour. (45 games, 10 players, 22 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Google unleashed its DeepMind project to tackle the game of chess. After four hours of self-training, their software was able to demolish Stockfish in a 100 game match without a single loss, +28 =72 -0. Google released 10 of the more spectacular wins. (10 games, 2 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Peter Svidler, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Nikita Vitiugov, Maxim Matlakov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladimir Malakhov, Alexander Riazantsev, Sergey Volkov, Daniil Dubov, Sanan Sjugirov, and Evgeny Romanov. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Alisa Galliamova, Valentina Gunina, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalia Pogonina, Olga Girya, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Alina Kashlinskaya, Marina Romanko Nechaeva, Evgenija Ovod, Polina Shuvalova, and Oksana Gritsayeva. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A rapid and blitz event with sections for men's and women's fields. Playing for the men are Ivanchuk, Karjakin, Wei Yi and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Vassily Ivanchuk won both rapid and blitz sections. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A rapid and blitz event with sections for men's and women's fields. Playing for the women are Anna Muzychuk, Elisabeth Paehtz, Pia Cramling and Corina-Isabela Peptan. Anna Muzychuk won both rapid and blitz sections. (12 games, 4 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Levon Aronian edged out Dmitry Jakovenko on tie-break after both scored 5.5/9. Also playing were Riazantsev, Giri, Gelfand, Liren, Inarkiev, Tomashevsky, Vallejo Pons, Nakamura, Hammer, Chao, Vachier-Lagrave, Eljanov, Harikrishna, Svidler, Rapport, and Radjabov. (81 games, 18 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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18-year-old Aryan Tari held top seed Jorden Van Foreest to a draw in the final round to take the U-20 championship title. (751 games, 148 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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17-year old Zhansaya Abdumalik won with 9.5/11. (447 games, 88 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren play 12 games with 5 minutes per side. Magnus won 8.5-3.5. (12 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren play 8 games with 10 minutes per side. Magnus won 6.5-1.5. (8 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren play 6 games with 20 minutes per side. Magnus won 4.5-1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren play 4 games with 30 minutes per side. Magnus won 2.5-1.5. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Four separate matches between Nakamura-Topalov, Caruana-Grischuk, So-Dominguez, and Carlsen-Ding. The time control moves through stages of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes. (60 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Four separate matches between Nakamura-Topalov, Caruana-Grischuk, So-Dominguez, and Carlsen-Ding. The time control moves through stages of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes. (18 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Four separate matches between Nakamura-Topalov, Caruana-Grischuk, So-Dominguez, and Carlsen-Ding. The time control moves through stages of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes. (12 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 21st European Team Championships includes top seeds Aronian, Mamedyarov, Grischuk, Giri, Radjabov, Gelfand, Wojtaszek, Nepomniachtchi, Matlakov, Vitiugov, Adams, Navara, Eljanov, Almasi, Duda, Jobava, Naiditsch, Rodshtein, Howell, Short, and many more. Discussion forum now open. (720 games, 197 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The European Women Team Championship includes top seeds Anna Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Kateryna Lahno, Valentina Gunina, Marie Sebag, Bela Khotenashvili, Elina Danielian, Hoang Thanh Trang, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Olga Girya, et al. (576 games, 158 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A 12-team double round-robin featuring most of the strongest Chinese players. Top seeds include Ding Liren, Li Chao, Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, et al. Discussion forum now open. (659 games, 109 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 2018-2019 season of the German Schachbundesliga has begun. (961 games, 242 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Many GMs including Artemiev, Sjugirov, Volkov, S.P. Sethuraman, Alekseev, et al. (1,585 games, 356 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A six game match part of the 2017 Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi. After the match was tied 3-3, Ivanchuk emerged victorious after winning two blitz tiebreak games. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A six game match part of the 2017 Hoogeveen Schaaktoernooi. After the match was tied 3-3, Van Foreest emerged victorious after winning two blitz tiebreak games. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Odlar Yurdu led going into the final round but lost to Novy Bor while Globus beat SHSM Legacy Square Capital 4.5-1.5 to take the title. Top players included Kramnik, Ding Liren, Svidler, Mamedyarov, Grischuk, Karjakin, Giri, Nepomniachtchi, and many more. (754 games, 245 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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Batumi Chess Club NONA took the title. Many top female players played including Harika, Dzagnidze, Girya, Paehtz, Dzagnidze, and many more. (168 games, 51 players, 1 discussion page.)
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One of the biggest open events of all time! Magnus Carlsen won with 7.5/9, ahead of Anand, Nakamura, Kramnik, Caruana, Adams, Eljanov, Vidit Gujrathi, and many others. (653 games, 159 players, 28 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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128 of the world's strongest players compete in a 128-player knockout event including Carlsen, Caruana, So, Kramnik, Anand, Nakamura, et al. Levon Aronian defeated Ding Liren in the rapid tiebreaks. (430 games, 127 players, 132 discussion pages.)
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Levon Aronian won the rapid event with 6/9 and the combined score with 24.5 points. Garry Kasparov played for the first time since the 2016 Ultimate Blitz Challenge proving he could keep up with the new generation. Also playing are Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepomniachtchi, David Navara, Le Quang Liem, and Lenier Dominguez. (45 games, 10 players, 19 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergey Karjakin won with 13.5/18. Garry Kasparov played for the first time since the 2016 Ultimate Blitz Challenge. Also playing are Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, David Navara, Le Quang Liem, and Lenier Dominguez. (90 games, 10 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian and Peter Svidler. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 34 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones beats McShane in the final rapid match. Players: David Howell, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Jonathan Hawkins, Nicolas Pert, James Adair, Mark Hebden etc. Discussion forum now open. (454 games, 103 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hou Yifan wins with 6.5/9 pushing out Harikrishna who lost the lead to Bacrot in the final round. Also playing were Navara, Ponomariov, Leko, Georgiadis, Studer, Vaganian, Ponomariov, and Morozevich. Discussion forum now open. (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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An eight player rapid knockout tournament including Anatoly Karpov. David Navara won. (15 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A very strong open including Nikita Vitiugov, Baadur Jobava, Krishnan Sasikiran, Nigel Short, Alexander Motylev, Ivan Sokolov, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Ivan Saric, Jan Timman, Alexander Shabalov, Johann Hjartarson, Simen Agdestein, Tiger Hillarp Persson, et al. (2,101 games, 430 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Radoslaw Wojtaszek won, a half point ahead of the field of Fedoseev, Vachier-Lagrave, Kramnik, Blübaum, Wang Yue, and Nisipeanu. (28 games, 8 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wei Yi wins with 6.5/9, defeating Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Vassily Ivanchuk, Le Quang Liem, Vladimir Malakhov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Ruslan Ponomariov, Wang Hao and Lu Shanglei. Discussion forum now open. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Grischuk, Riazantsev, Aronian, Nepomniachtchi, Giri, Gelfand, Jakovenko, Inarkiev, Hou Yifan, Li Chao, Michael Adams, Eljanov, Harikrishna, Svidler, Rapport, A.R. Saleh, Mamedyarov, and Radjabov. (81 games, 18 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Loek van Wely is the 2017 Dutch Champion after beating Sipke Ernst by tiebreaks. Also playing were Ivan Sokolov, Erwin L'Ami, Jorden van Foreest, Benjamin Bok, Erik van den Doel, and Twan Burg. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anne Haast is the 2017 Dutch Champion after beating Tea Bosboom-Lanchava by tiebreaks. Also playing were Zhaoqin Peng, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Mariska Bertholee, Arlette van Weersel, Maaike Keetman, and Lisa Hortensius. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Vassily Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava. Wesley So won the rapid event with 7/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Vassily Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava. Magnus Carlsen annhilated the field with 14.5/18, winning by 4 and a half points. (90 games, 10 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Nakamura, Wesley So, MVL, Karjakin, Caruana, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Topalov and Bacrot. Magnus Carlsen won the rapid with 7/9. Combined with the blitz event, Carlsen was even with Maxime Lachier-Lagrave with 24 points apiece; Magnus won in the tiebreaks to become overall champ. (45 games, 10 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Nakamura, Wesley So, MVL, Karjakin, Caruana, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Topalov and Bacrot. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won with 13/18. (90 games, 10 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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10 teams from around the world compete for the largest team event in chess. China won the men's title. (180 games, 50 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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10 all-female teams from around the world compete for the largest team event in chess. Russia came out victorious. (180 games, 50 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Levon Aronian won by a whole point (6/9) over Carlsen, So, Caruana, Kramnik, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Anand, Karjakin, and Giri. (45 games, 10 players, 31 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins by two whole points at 7.5/9, beating So, Caruana, Kramnik, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Anand, Aronian, Karjakin, and Giri. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Leko, Andreikin, Navara, Jakovenko, Jobava, Kryvoruchko, Ponomariov, Matlakov, Naiditsch, Rodshtein, Tomashevsky, Bacrot, Howell, et al. (1,096 games, 308 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk, Cordova, Sasikiran, Shankland, Piorun, and Ortiz Suarez. Discussion forum now open. (30 games, 6 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren beat Grischuk, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, Gelfand, Hou Yifan, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedyarov, Mickey Adams, and many others, with 6/9. (81 games, 18 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Jeffery Xiong, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Dariusz Swiercz, Sandro Mareco, Alexander Ipatov, Varuzhan Akobian, Yuniesky Quesada Perez, Yaroslav Zherebukh, Andrey Baryshpolets. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Alexandr Hilario Takeda dos Santos Fier, Aleksandr Lenderman, Tamaz Gelashvili, Vladimir Belous, Ioan-Cristian Chirila, Akshat Chandra, Cemil Can Ali Marandi, Awonder Liang, Nazi Paikidze, Zhansaya Abdumalik. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Aleksandr Shimanov, Illya Nyzhnyk, Samuel Sevian, Alejandro Ramirez Alvarez, Andrey Stukopin, Ruifeng Li. (30 games, 6 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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The Sigeman & Co returns after a three year break. Players: Nigel Short, Pavel Eljanov, Baadur Jobava, Nils Grandelius, Erik Blomqvist and Dronavalli Harika. Discussion forum now open. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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One of the world's strongest team events sees Russian teams compete for local honours and a place in the European Club Cup. Players include Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Peter Svidler, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Gata Kamsky, Alexey Shirov, et al. Discussion forum now open. (168 games, 57 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Natalia Pogonina, Anna Ushenina, Olga Girya, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Alina Kashlinskaya, Marina Romanko Nechaeva, Evgenija Ovod, et al. Discussion forum now open. (144 games, 44 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Aleksandr Shimanov, Boris Savchenko, Vladislav Kovalev, Pavel Ponkratov, Artur Gabrielian, Adam Tukhaev, Daniil Yuffa et al. Discussion forum now open. (288 games, 73 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Wei Yi won the men's event with 8.5/11, beating Wen Yang and Lu Shanglei by a half-point. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tingjie Lei won the women's event with 9/11, a half-point ahead of Tan Zhongyi. (66 games, 12 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won with 5.5/9 ahead of So, Kramnik, Karjakin, Adams, Harikrishna, Eljanov, Wojtaszek, Topalov, and Radjabov. (45 games, 10 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anish Giri wins with 8.5/10 ahead of Dmitry Andreikin, Baadur Jobava, Zoltan Almasi, Alexei Shirov, Sergei Movsesian, Gawain Jones, Gata Kamsky, Nils Grandelius, Erwin L'Ami, Alexander Beliavsky, and hundreds more. (959 games, 263 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Levon Aronian wins a point and a half ahead of Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Arkadij Naiditsch, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hou Yifan, Matthias Bluebaum, and Georg Meier. (28 games, 8 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Nikita Vitiugov, Maxim Matlakov, Etienne Bacrot, Richard Rapport, Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Fedoseev, et al. (386 games, 242 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nana Dzagnidze won with 8.5/11, beating top seeds include Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Kateryna Lahno, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alisa Galliamova, Pia Cramling, Natalia Pogonina, and over a hundred more. (785 games, 144 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Roster: Ernesto Inarkiev, Dmitry Jakovenko, Maxim Rodshtein, Anton Korobov, Evgeniy Najer, David Anton Guijarro, Daniil Dubov, Emil Sutovsky, Victor Bologan and Sergei Zhigalko. Discussion forum now open. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura, Svidler, Anand, Nepomniachtchi, Kramnik, Gelfand, Oparin and Pelletier. Accelerated time control of 45m+30spm for the first 7 rounds and then a final day of games at 10 minutes plus 5s/move. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura tied with Gelfand against Svidler, Anand, Nepomniachtchi, Oparin and Pelletier. (28 games, 8 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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12 player round-robin with Caruana, So, Nakamura, Robson, Shankland, Xiong, Kamsky, Onischuk, Naroditsky, Akobian, Zherebukh, and Shabalov. So defeated Onischuk in the tiebreak round. (66 games, 12 players, 27 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sabina-Francesca Foisor won by a full point against Krush, Zatonskih, Paikidze, Abrahamyan, Nemcova, Sharevich, Yu, Virkud, Feng, Nguyen, and Yip. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones, Gabriel Sargissian, Anton Korobov, Alexander Areshchenko, Vladimir Akopian, Sergei Zhigalko, et al. Discussion forum now open. (347 games, 143 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A six player double round-robin with Anish Giri, Michael Adams, Pentala Harikrishna, Peter Svidler, Liren Ding and Yangyi Yu. Ding Liren won by a full point. (32 games, 8 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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David Howell defeated Swiercz, Fedoseev, Shankland, Ipatov, et al. with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mateusz Bartel, Michal Krasenkow, Kacper Piorun, Bartosz Socko, Grzegorz Gajewski, Aleksander Mista, Jacek Tomczak, Bartlomiej Heberla, Daniel Sadzikowski, and Lukasz Jarmula. Discussion forum now open. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Le Quang Liem beat Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, Ivan Cheparinov, Wang Hao, et al, with 7/9. (0 games, 0 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Alexey Shirov, Loek van Wely, Viktor Laznicka, Igor Kovalenko, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Daniel Fridman, Vladimir Onischuk, Alexei Fedorov, Alexander Shabalov, Jaan Ehlvest and many more. (64 games, 38 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Entrants include Ju Wenjun, Pogonina, Cramling, Anna Muzychuk, Kosteniuk, Zhao Xue, Gunina, et al. In the final Zhongyi Tan won the second rapid against Anna Muzychuk to become the new Womens's World Champion. (216 games, 63 players, 33 discussion pages.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Alexander Grischuk tied for first with 5.5/9. (81 games, 18 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Yu Yangyi, Vitiugov, Inarkiev, Jobava, Matlakov. Discussion forum now open. (439 games, 98 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hikaru Nakamura won the event for the third year running after winning the tie-break against David Anton in the final, and Yu Yangyi in the semi-final. Other leading players included Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Cheparinov, Michael Adams, Fabiano Caruana, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand, Nigel Short, et al. (1,061 games, 255 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Welsey So defeated Carlsen, Aronian, Karjakin, Giri, Harikrishna, Nepomniachtchi, Eljanov, Wojtaszek, Andreikin, Rapport, Wei Yi, Van Wely, and Adhiban. (91 games, 14 players, 56 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones won on tiebreak (beating Markus Ragger) and qualfies for the 2018 Masters. Other players included SmirinXiong, Lu Shanglei, Erwin l'Ami, and more. (91 games, 14 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Krishnan Sasikiran won with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Sergey Volkov. Also playing Kamsky, Ivan Sokolov, Postny, et al. (446 games, 105 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Leaders include SP Sethuraman, Alexandr Fier, Benjamin Gledura, Deep Sengupta, Murali Karthikeyan, Allan Stig Rasmussen, Danny Gormally, Mark Hebden, etc. (405 games, 99 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pavel Eljanov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Peter Svidler. (1,134 games, 108 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds: Koneru Humpy, Anna Muzychuk, Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Nana Dzagnidze, Kateryna Lahno, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, et al. (288 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Leading players: Ivanchuk beats out Grischuk and Carlsen on tiebreaks. Also playing were Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pavel Eljanov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Peter Svidler, et al. (786 games, 106 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anna Muzychuk beat out Koneru Humpy, Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Nana Dzagnidze, Kateryna Lahno, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, et al. (200 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The four game classical part was drawn 2-2. There was then a blitz tiebreak in which Rapport won the final decisive game with the black pieces. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Alexander Riazantsev won the rapid event on tie-break from Maxim Matlakov after both scored 9.5/11. Dmitry Andreikin dominated the blitz event scoring 22/26 a point and a half clear of Rauf Mamedov. (440 games, 217 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Featuring Kramnik, Anand, Caruana, Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Wesley So, Giri, Topalov and Mickey Adams. Wesley So won the classic with 6/9 and the Grand Chess Tour. (45 games, 10 players, 34 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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After 12 classical time-control games, World Champion Magnus Carlsen defended his title in the rapid tiebreaks against challenger Sergey Karjakin. (16 games, 2 players, 161 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seed Ju Wenjun won with 7.5/11. Valentina Gunina, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Harika Dronavalli still able to win and qualify for a World Championship match. (65 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov, Caruana, Anand, and Nakamura participate in a 4 day event that spans three styles of chess: two classical, two rapid, and four blitz games. (12 games, 4 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Pentala Harikrishna, Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pavel Eljanov, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexander Grischuk, et al. Discussion forum now open. (1,298 games, 426 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Top seeds include Hou Yifan, Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Natalia Pogonina, et al. Discussion forum now open. (197 games, 65 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Carlsen obtained a large lead after the 5m+2spm and 3m+2spm sections and narrowly lost the bullet 1m+1spm with a final score of 14.5-10.5. (22 games, 2 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Riazantsev beat out Grischuk, Svidler, Inarkiev, Vitiugov, Tomashevsky, Jakovenko, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexandra Kosteniuk beat out Pogonina, Gunina, Bodnaruk, et al. with 8.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nikhil Kumar won the U12 cadet's section of the 2016 WYCC with a score of 9.5/11. (3,920 games, 722 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Quadruple round robin with Boris Gelfand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. (24 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short takes on the world's strongest female player in a 6 game match, part of the Hoogeveen Chess Festival. GM Short won, 3.5 to 2.5. (6 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jorden van Foreest plays a 6 game match with Ivan Sokolov, part of the Hoogeveen Chess Festival. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman play a four game match in Murmansk as part of the 4th Basamro International. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The next season of the German Schachbundesliga has begun. (958 games, 243 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Moscow team "SHSM Moscow" (Morozevich, Popov, Motylev, Dubov) won the both the rapid and blitz. (301 games, 81 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Moscow team "SHSM Moscow" won the both the rapid and blitz. (180 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Team Yugra" from Khanty-Mansiysk won the women's rapid. Team "VIVO" from St. Petersburg won the women's blitz event, although the games are not currently avialable. (84 games, 30 players, no discussion.)
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Pavel Eljanov beat out Caruana on tiebreaks (both on 7.5/9). Also playing were Nakamura, So, Eljanov, Adams, Wang Hao, and Leko. (583 games, 133 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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About 30 GMs and countless IMs and masters meet at Harrah's Resort to compete for the big prize. Dariusz Swiercz beat Gawain Jones 2-0 in the final. (116 games, 65 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nepomniachtchi beat Kramnik, Tomashevsky, Anand, Aronian, Gelfand, Li Chao, Mamedyarov, Giri and Svidler with 6/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mamedyarov dominated all with 7.5/9 in the blitz event, which determines the seeding for the main event. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Maksim Vavulin, Vahap Sanal, Manuel Petrosyan, Bilel Bellahcene, Dmitrij Kollars, Shahin Lorparizangeneh, Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo, et al. (351 games, 64 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Polina Shuvalova, Oliwia Kiolbasa, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Svetlana Tishova, Fiona Sieber, Battsooj Amina, et al. (319 games, 58 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen was in New York City to play a simul against 11 users of the Play Magnus mobile app. Everybody had 30 minutes on their clocks. Magnus won 11 to 0. (11 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The USA won their first gold since 1976 featuring Caruana, Nakamura, So, Robson, and Shankland. They won on tie-break with Ukraine who also scored 20 points and took the silver. Russia took clear bronze. (3,664 games, 839 players, 65 discussion pages.)
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China's team with Hou Yifan, Zhao Xue, and Ju Wenjun dominated the field and finished with 20 points, well ahead of Poland and Ukraine with 17. (2,919 games, 662 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Andreikin, Wang Hao, Adhiban, Fedoseev, Areshchenko, and over 100 others. Discussion forum now open. (524 games, 130 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jeffery Xiong won the title with a round to spare finishing on 10.5/13 ahead of Vladislav Artemiev. (505 games, 79 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dinara Saduakassova won with 9.5/13, a half-point clear of Nandhidhaa and Dordzhieva. (357 games, 56 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wesley So beat out Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler, Veselin Topalov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Ding Liren. (45 games, 10 players, 32 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Adams won his 5th British Championship with an outstanding 10/11. Jovanka Houska takes the women's title. (471 games, 86 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anton Korobov placed first ahead of Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Emil Sutovsky, Dmitry Andreikin, Ilia Smirin, Dmitry Jakovenko, Maxim Matlakov, Igor Kovalenko, Victor Bologan and Alexander Motylev. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Peter Svidler, Benjamin Bok, Francesco Rambaldi, Nico Georgiadis, and Noel Studer. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Svidler and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave play a 4 round classical match, in additional to several top-notch side events. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Nakamura, Wei Yi, Karjakin, Giri, and So. Special scoring were in effect: wins are worth 3 points; draws, 1 point. Carlsen won with 17 points, Nakamura second place with 12. (30 games, 6 players, 23 discussion pages.)
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Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi Wang Hao, Bu Xiangzhi, Wang Yue, Hou Yifan, Pentala Harikrishna, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Peter Leko and Vassily Ivanchuk. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Ruslan Ponomariov, Evgeniy Najer, Rainer Buhrmann and Leinier Dominguez-Perez. Discussion forum open now. (28 games, 8 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Koneru Humpy, Anna Muzychuk, Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Mariya Muzychuk, Antoaneta Stefanova, Pia Cramling, Dronavalli Harika, Bela Khotenashvili, Tan Zhongyi, Lela Javakhishvili, and Olga Girya. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The Chinese Team Championship has 22 rounds in total ending in December. Top seeds include Wei Yi, Ding Liren, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Yu Yangyi, et al. (558 games, 90 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A 10 player single round-robin includes involves Arkadij Naiditsch, Andrei Volokitin, Alexander Beliavsky, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Ivan Ivanisevic, Luka Lenic, Zdenko Kozul, Jure Borisek, Jure Skoberne, and Matej Sebenik. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Shirov, Ganguly, S P Sethuraman, and Sam Shankland. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand, Carlsen, Nakamura, Caruana, So, Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Giri, Topalov, Kramnik. Carlsen wins the Blitz and the combined results with 23 points, ahead of Wesley So with 20.5. (90 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Carlsen wins with 6/9 ahead of Wesley So with 5.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Farrukh Amonatov turned the tables on Nepomniachtchi in the last round to take the Cup. Also playing were Le Quang, Karjakin, Mamedov, Gelfand, Wang Hao, Grischuk, Andreikin, Svidler, Kasimdzhanov, Gawain Jones, et al. (461 games, 77 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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David Navara scored 4/6 including a win in the decisive final round which scored the European win. (18 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The traditional match between the national chess teams of Russia and China takes place June 11-15. Top seeds are Ian Nepomniachtchi for Russia and Wang Yue for China. (25 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Gunina, Pogonina, Bodnaruk, Goryachkina, Lagno represent Russia, taking on Chinese players Tan Zhongyi, Shen Yang, Guo Qi, Ding Yixin, and Lei Tingjie. (25 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Leinier Dominguez Perez, Vassily Ivanchuk, Zoltan Almasi, Ivan Cheparinov, Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Lazaro Bruzon. (28 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura won the rapid and the combined event, beating Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Veselin Topalov and Laurent Fressinet. (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen won the blitz event, beating Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Veselin Topalov and Laurent Fressinet. (90 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Viswanathan Anand won by beating David Anton in the semi-finals and Wei Yi in the final. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Evgeni Sveshnikov, Evgeni Vasiukov, Viktor Kupreichik, Nona Gaprindashvili, Alexander Kuindzhy, Nikolai Mishuchkov, Yuri Meshkov, et al. (210 games, 52 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Antoaneta Stefanova, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalia Pogonina, Monika Socko, Lilit Mkrtchian, Anna Ushenina (614 games, 112 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won his final three games to beat out Caruana, Giri, Karjakin, Eljanov, Harikrishna, Radjabov, Safarli, Hou Yifan, et al. (45 games, 10 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wei Yi, Ni Hua, Le Quang Liem, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Baskaran Adhiban, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, et al. (108 games, 55 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Batkhuyag Munguntuul, Qi Guo, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, Padmini Rout, Le Thao Nguyen Pham, Mary Ann Gomes, et al. (106 games, 31 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Alexander Grischuk won the 8 player blitz final, beating Andreikin 4-2 and Carlsen 2.5-1.5. (32 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ernesto Inarkiev beat out top seeds David Navara, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Nikita Vitiugov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Francisco Vallejo Pons, et al. (617 games, 221 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short defeated Hjorvar Gretarsson in a 6 game rapid match, 4.5 to 1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren defeated Wesley So play a 4 game match as part of the China/USA Summit in Shanghai. Ding Liren won with +1 -0 =3. (4 games, 2 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik, Karjakin, Svidler, Grischuk, Dominguez, Jakovenko, et al. Discussion forum now open. (120 games, 40 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Kateryna Lahno, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalia Pogonina, Lilit Mkrtchian, Anna Ushenina, et al. Discussion forum now open. (144 games, 43 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Leading players include Alexey Shirov, Dmitry Andreikin, Zoltan Almasi, Krishnan Sasikiran, Ilya Smirin, Eduardas Rozentalis, et al. (527 games, 211 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The top three finishers of the US Championship (Caruana, Nakamura, and So) joined Garry Kasparov in a special exhibition blitz tournament lasting 6 rounds. Nakamura won with 11/18 while the former champion held his own with a solid +6 -5 =7. (36 games, 4 players, 31 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins with 6/9 ahead of Aronian, Kramnik, Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Harikrishna, Li Chao, Anish Giri, Pavel Eljanov and Nils Grandelius. (45 games, 10 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins with 7.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anna Muzychuk, Zhao Xue, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, Bela Khotenashvili, Elina Danielian, Almira Skripchenko, Nino Batsiashvili, Lela Javakhishvili, Olga Girya. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wei Yi wins handily with 7.5/11, in the absense of many top Chinese players. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Qi Guo defeats Mo Zhai, Yiyi Xiao, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Fabiano Caruana beat out Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk, Samuel Shankland, Ray Robson, Aleksandr Lenderman, Varuzhan Akobian, Jeffery Xiong, Alexander Shabalov and Akshat Chandra with 8.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 18 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nazi Paikidze beat out Anna Zatonskih, Irina Krush and many other strong ladies to finish with 8.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Radoslaw Wojtaszek won with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Karjakin, winning with 8.5/14, will play a match for the title against reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen this November in the US. (56 games, 8 players, 150 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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After not defending her title in a knockout format, Hou Yifan regained it by defeating Muzychuk 6-3. (9 games, 2 players, 18 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mamedyarov, Movsesian, Andreikin, Rapport, Cheparinov, Beliavsky, Sargissian, et al. (759 games, 226 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gelfand, Bu Xiangzhi, Wei Yi, Korobov, Nepomniachtchi, et al. (383 games, 86 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Featuring Ding Liren, Harikrishna, Li Chao, Mamedyarov, Navara, et al. (240 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Valentina Gunina, Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Nana Dzagnidze, Antoaneta Stefanova, Kateryna Lahno, Alexandra Kosteniuk, et al. (240 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Rapid, Blitz and Basque formats for men and women. Featuring Ding Liren, Harikrishna, Li Chao, Mamedyarov, Navara, et al. Women include Wenjun Ju, Kosteniuk, Lagno, Dzagnidze, Ushenina, Gunina, et al. (56 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Nana Dzagnidze, Antoaneta Stefanova, Kateryna Lahno, Valentina Gunina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, et al. (55 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short wins with 5.5/6, beating out Oleg Korneev, Gawain Jones, Alexander Baburin, Mark Hebden, Simon Kim Williams, Peter Wells, et al. (136 games, 46 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Humpy Koneru, Wenjun Ju, Nana Dzagnidze, Pia Cramling, Dronavalli Harika, Antoaneta Stefanova, Xue Zhao, Valentina Gunina, Nino Batsiashvili, Natalia Zhukova, Natalia Pogonina, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Kramnik, Nakamura, Anand, Shirov, Aronian and Giri. Anand and Nakamura both scored 3.5/5 in this and the rapid section of the tournament, but Nakamura won on S-B tiebreak. (15 games, 6 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik, Nakamura, and Anand all finished with 3.5/5. (15 games, 6 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Players: Kramnik, Nakamura, Anand, Shirov, Aronian and Giri. Nakamura won with 3.5/5. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura beat out Vachier-Lagrave (both on 8/10) in the Armageddon game. (1,231 games, 254 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen wins with 9/13, beating Caruana, Giri, Ding Liren, So, Karjakin, Eljanov, Adams, Mamedyarov, Tomashevsky, Navara, Wei Yi, Hou Yifan, and Van Wely. (91 games, 14 players, 67 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexey Dreev, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Baskaran Adhiban, Eltaj Safarli, Erwin L'Ami, Benjamin Bok, Ju Wenjun, Samuel Sevian, Mikhail Antipov, Nijat Abasov, Jorden van Foreest, Nino Batsiashvili, Miguoel Admiraal, and Anne Haast. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 91st Hastings Chess Congress includes Ferenc Berkes, Igor Khenkin, Oleg Romanishin, Mark Hebden, Gyula Pap, Daniel Gormally, Simon Kim Williams, et al. (356 games, 88 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players include Nigel Short, Gawain Jones, Alexandr Hilario, and Richard Taylor. (292 games, 66 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This very strong open included World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin, Li Chao, and many others. Magnus Carlsen won the event after beating Yu Yangyi 2-0 on tie-breaks. (589 games, 132 players, 46 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The "Kings" (Gelfand, Najer, Leko, Morozevich) played a Scheveningen classical and rapid chess match against a team of "princes" (Vladislav Artemiev, Ivan Bukavshin, Mikhail Antipov and Grigoriy Oparin). The Kings won 18-14. (16 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Carlsen, Anand, Nakamura, Aronian, Topalov, Grischuk, Vachier-Lagrave, Adams, and Giri. A threeway tie for first at 5.5/9 among Carlsen, Giri, and Vachier-Lagrave caused the event to go into rapid tiebreaks where Carlsen emerged triumphant. (45 games, 10 players, 41 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Men's and women's events with 8 players each in a knockout format. (20 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Men's and women's events with 8 players each in a knockout format. (20 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 20th European Championship involved dream-teams including Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and many more. Russia secured the goold, Armenia the bronze, and Hungary the silver. (648 games, 178 players, 14 discussion pages.)
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In the women's section, Russia placed first, followed by Ukraine and Georgia. (537 games, 146 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Morozevich beat Bachmann on tie-breaks (most games with black) in spite of losing to him in the final round. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wesley So beat Anish Giri in the blitz tiebreaks, after they tied for first (+1 -0 =5) ahead of Viswanathan Anand and Ding Liren. (12 games, 4 players, 20 discussion pages.)
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Club Sibera won, thanks to an incredible performance by Kramnik 4.5/5. (893 games, 355 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Club Nona of Georgia finished with a perfect score. (156 games, 57 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins with 11.5/15, beating out Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexander Grischuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vassily Ivanchuk, Levon Aronian, Viswanathan Anand, Teimour Radjabov, David Navara, Sergey Karjakin, and many more. (1,182 games, 158 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Grischuk is the new Blitz World Champion, winning with 15.5/21 ahead of Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vassily Ivanchuk, Levon Aronian, Viswanathan Anand, Teimour Radjabov, David Navara, Sergey Karjakin, and many more. (1,971 games, 188 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yifan Hou, Koneru Humpy, Anna Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Antoaneta Stefanova, Pia Cramling, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Natalia Pogonina, Almira Skripchenko, Natalia Zhukova, and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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GM Hikaru Nakamura won this 7-round open followd by a 4-player tiebreak, beating out Caruana, So, Kamsky, Yangyi Yu, Liem Le, McShane, Robson, and many more. (183 games, 123 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Morozevich, Bologan, Shirov, Inarkiev, Lysyj, Korobov, Laznicka, Smirin, Sutovsky and Khismatullin. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Michael Adams, Sergei Movsesian, Pentala Harikrishna, Arkadij Naiditsch, Laurent Fressinet, David Howell, Nigel Short, and over a hundred other players compete in this colorful event. (393 games, 102 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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128 world class players including Topalov, Nakamura, Caruana, Giri, Kramnik, So, Grischuk, Ding Liren, Aronian, and many more. In the final, Karjakin defeated Svidler in a see-saw struggle that was settled in blitz tiebreaks. (433 games, 128 players, 80 discussion pages.)
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The German Schachbundesliga has begun. (949 games, 251 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jorge Cori, Karen H Grigoryan, Benjamin Bok, Matthias Bluebaum, Jorden van Foreest, et al. (403 games, 62 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nastassia Ziaziulkina, Dinara Saduakassova, Medina Warda Aulia, Zhansaya Abdumalik, Paula Andrea Rodriguez Rueda, et al. (312 games, 48 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Aronian won with 6/9, aheada of Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Topalov, Grischuk, Anand, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, and Wesley So. (45 games, 10 players, 56 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The City of Szeged and the Hungarian Chess Federation organized a six-game match between Leko Peter and Li Chao. Li Chao won 3.5 to 1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Etienne Bacrot, Romain Edouard, Christian Bauer, Andrei Istratescu, Tigran Gharamian, Jean-Marc Degraeve, Sebastien Maze, Matthieu Cornette, Andrei Shchekachev, Maxime Lagarde, Yannick Gozzoli, Jules Moussard. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Almira Skripchenko, Sophie Milliet, Silvia (Aleksieva) Collas, Nino Maisuradze, Anda Safranska, Maria Nepeina Leconte, Andreea-Cristiana Navrotescu, Natacha Benmesbah, Christine Flear, Mathilde Choisy, Sophie Aflalo, Oriane Soubirou. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tomashevsky won with 7.5/11, beating out Igor Lysyj, Dmitry Jakovenko, Denis Khismatullin, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Nikita Vitiugov, Vladislav Artemiev, Alexander Motylev, Ivan Bukavshin, Ildar Khairullin, and Daniil Dubov. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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16 year old Aleksandra Goryachkina beat out Valentina Gunina, Alisa Galliamova, Ekaterina Lagno, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Natalia Pogonina, Olga Girya, Marina Guseva, Alina Kashlinskaya, Anastasia Savina, Anastasia Bodnaruk, and Evgenija Ovod. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jonathan Hawkins beat out David Howell, Simon Williams, Aaron Summerscale, Glenn Flear, Richard Pert, et al. with 8.5/11. (404 games, 77 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Russia: Sergey Karjakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Alexander Morozevich, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dmitry Andreikin. China: Wei Yi, Ding Liren, Ni Hua, Yu Yangyi and Wang Yue. A knockout-style event in two parts, the latter half to be played in Harbin City come December. (11 games, 5 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took clear first on 6.5/10, beating out Adams, Wojtaszek, Navara, Eljanov, and Rapport. (30 games, 6 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Laurent Fressinet, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Ilya Smirin, Markus Ragger, Jan Timman, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Gawain Jones, and couple hundred others. (1,981 games, 429 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat out Tigran Levonovich Petrosian, Vladislav Artemiev, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, David Anton Guijarro, Robert Hovhannisyan, A R Saleh Salem, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Hovhannes Gabuzyan, and Samuel Sevian. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren played Boris Gelfand in a four game classical match in his home city of Wenzhou. Ding Liren won, 3 to 1. (4 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top Chinese players face off against top Russian players. Includes Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, Peter Svidler, Nikita Vitiugov, Tan Zhongyi, Valentina Gunina, Natalia Pogonina, et al. (25 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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China: Tan Zhongyi, Shen Yang, Huang Qian, Lei Tingjie, Ding Yixin. Russia: Gunina, Girya, Goryachkina, Pogonina, Kashlinskaya. (25 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Wang Yue won with 7/9, beating Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Ni Hua, Bu Xiangzhi, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Krishnan Sasikiran, Lu Shanglei and Wang Chen. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Anish Giri, Loek van Wely, Sergei Tiviakov, Erwin L'Ami, Robin van Kampen, Sipke Ernst, Benjamin Bok, and Roeland Pruijssers. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov met the renowned chess theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov in a 6 game match. Karpov won 4 to 2. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana defeats Kramnik, So, Nepomniachtchi, Hou Yifan, Naiditsch, Nisipeanu, and Meier, clearing the field by a point and a half. (28 games, 8 players, 22 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov had a fine +5 -1 =3 performance beating out Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Anand, Grischuk, Giri, Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Hammer. (45 games, 10 players, 78 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the event with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Pentala Harikrishna beat out Ivanchuk, Wang Hao, Shankland, and Ganguly. (45 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Ruslan Ponomariov, Wei Yi and David Anton Guijarro compete in a rapid knockout. Wei Yi won, defeating Vachier-Lagrave 2.5 to 1.5 in the final. (14 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Wesley So beat the Czech chess champion David Navara 3-1. (4 games, 2 players, 14 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Includes Elianov, Dominguez, Yu Yangyi, Andreikin, Nepomniatchi, Bruzon, et al. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top players include Wesley So, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, David Navara, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Dmitry Jakovenko, Arkadij Naiditsch, Laurent Fressinet, Etienne Bacrot, et al. (529 games, 133 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Dmitry Jakovenko edged out Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana on tie-break after all finished with 6.5/11. Caruana and Nakamura qualify for the 2016 Candidates. (66 games, 12 players, 36 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nana Dzagnidze, Bela Khotenashvili, Antoaneta Stefanova, Girya Olga, Hoang Thanh Trang, et al. (497 games, 98 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren, Wang Hao, Yangyi Yu, Wei Yi, Zhou Jianchao, Wen Yang, Zhao Jun, Lu Shanglei, Wang Chen, Liu Qingnan, Wan Yunguo, and Lin Chen. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Tan Zhongyi, Yang Shen, Qi Guo, Tingjie Lei, Ding Yixin, Zhang Xiaowen, Wang Jue, Shiqun Ni, Mo Zhai, Yiyi Xiao, Xueyi Li, and Ying Zhu. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Players: Laurent Fressinet, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Nils Grandelius, Curt Hansen, Simen Agdestein and Aryan Tari. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Leading players include Peter Svidler, Gata Kamsky, Nikita Vitiugov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Malakhov, et al. (323 games, 107 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Leading players include Grischuk, Kramnik, Aronian, Jakovenko, Wojtaszek, Vitiugov, Svidler, et al. (167 games, 62 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Leading players include Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Natalia Pogonina, Lilit Mkrtchian, Olga Girya, Anastasia Bodnaruk, et al. (140 games, 45 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The team Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova (Nakamura, Vachier-Lagrave, Bacrot) won the title. (144 games, 83 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins by a full point, beating out Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Michael Adams and Rauf Mamedov. (45 games, 10 players, 53 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Garry Kasparov defeated Nigel Short 7-1 in a blitz/rapid match in St. Louis. (8 games, 2 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Garry Kasparov defeated Nigel Short 7-1 in a blitz/rapid match in St. Louis. (2 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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China took the gold medal with top board Ding Liren, Ukraine won the silver, and Aronian helped Armenia achieve the bronze. (180 games, 50 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Leading players include David Howell, Vladimir Fedoseev, Igor Kovalenko, Tigran L Petrosian, et al. (333 games, 107 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top players include Wang Hao, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Nigel Short, Jan Gustafsson, Jozsef Horvath, et al. (90 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hikaru Nakamura placed first ahead of Wesley So, Ray Robson, Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk, Daniel Naroditsky, Sam Shankland, Varuzhan Akobian, Timur Gareev, Kayden Troff, Sam Sevian and Conrad Holt. (66 games, 12 players, 63 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Irina Krush placed first ahead of Katerina Nemcova, Tatev Abrahamyan, Anna Sharevich, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mariya Muzychuk defeated Natalia Pogonina in the finals 2.5-1.5. (201 games, 64 players, 24 discussion pages.)
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Top entrants include Mamedyarov, Tomashevsky, Nepomniachtchi, Ponomariov, Rapport, Korobov, Vallejo, Inarkiev. (314 games, 72 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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First won in 1964 by Tal, this is the 24th edition. Top players include Mamedyarov, Navara, and Eljanov. (970 games, 272 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Evgeny Najer won with 8.5/11, beating out Navara, Vitiugov, Eljanov, Nepomniachtchi, Bacrot, Vallejo-Pons, et al. (1,316 games, 250 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik beats out Aronian, Nakamura, Karjakin, Anand, and Caruana. (15 games, 6 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand beats out Caruana, Aronian, Karjakin, Nakamura and Kramnik. (15 games, 6 players, 34 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Aronian beats out Caruana, Anand, Karjakin, Nakamura and Kramnik. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wesley So wins the masters section, ahead of Nigel Short, Gawain Jones, Nick Pert, Mark Hebden, et al. (17 games, 16 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Bjorn Thorfinnsson won this 10 player GM norm round-robin. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tomashevsky dominated the field, a point and half ahead of Jakovenko. Also playing were Grischuk, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, Mamedyarov, Svidler, Andreikin, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 22 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen beat out Naiditsch in Armageddon tiebreaks. Both finished with 4.5/7, ahead of Caruana, Anand, Aronian, Adams, Bacrot, and Baramidze. (28 games, 8 players, 55 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Vallejo-Pons, Nepomniachtchi, Alekseev, and T L Petrosian. (1,070 games, 245 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nakamura beat Topalov, Svidler, Vitiugov, Jakovenko, Harikrishna, Yangi Yu, Rapport, Wei Yi, Hou Yifan, et al. with 8.5/10. (1,220 games, 257 players, 43 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Caruana, Aronian, Giri, So, Vachier-Lagrave, Wojtaszek, Radjabov, Ding Liren, Jobava, Ivanchuk, Hou Yifan, Van Wely, and Saric give this mega-tournament an average rating of 2746. Magnus Carlsen won with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 142 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Includes Wei Yi, Van Kampen, Shankland, Timman, and Gunina. Wei Yi won with 10.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Zhao Jun finished with an excellent +7 -0 =2 score, winning by a full point. (437 games, 106 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The experienced "kings" (Leko, Shirov, Dreev and Morozevich) take on a team of younger "princes" (Artemiev, Fedoseev, Dubov and Oparin). The "Kings" won, 32.5 to 31.5. (16 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand edged out Giri and Kramnik on tiebreaks, all finishing +1 -0 =4 (7 points). Also played: Nakamura, Adams, and Caruana. (15 games, 6 players, 23 discussion pages.)
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Adams edged out Kramnik and Nakamura on tiebreaks, all finishing with 17/30 (using 3-1-0 scoring). (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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This prelude to the main event allows chess fans to play agains the super-GMs. Nakamura won with an outstanding 9.5/10. (100 games, 74 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Morozevich, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Jakovenko, Nikita Vitiugov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Denis Khismatullin, Boris Grachev, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Igor Lysyj. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alisa Galliamova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Valentina Gunina, Natalia Pogonina, Olga Girya, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Alina Kashlinskaya, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Oksana Gritsayeva. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This very strong open includes Kramnik, Vachier-Lagrave, Naiditsch, Giri, Mamedyarov, Bu Xiangzhi, et al. (692 games, 154 players, 23 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen successfully defended his title against erstwhile champion Viswanathan Anand in Russia. After a victory in game 11, World Champion Carlsen retains the title 6.5 to 4.5. (11 games, 2 players, 157 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nakamura and Aronian play a match of 4 classical games and 16 blitz games. The classical games were tied, but Nakamura won the blitz 9.5 to 6.5 to win the match. (4 games, 2 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A strong field with Ivanchuk, Eljanov, Ponomariov, Moiseenko, Korobov, Kuzubov, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mariya Muzychuk, Anna Muzychuk, Osmak, Zhukova, et al. (37 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Mamedyarov wins with 16/22 beating Kramnik, Karjakin, Svidler, Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi, Tomashevsky, Morozevich, Inarkiev, Kosteniuk, Gelfand, and Leko. (132 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Aronian, Grischuk, Kramnik, Leko, Gelfand, Ding Liren, Morozevich and Inarkiev. (28 games, 8 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Andreikin beat out Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Vachier-Lagrave, Giri, Mamedyarov, Gelfand, Jakovenko, Radjabov, Jobava and Kasimdzhanov with 7/11. (66 games, 12 players, 31 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The German Schachbundesliga has begun. (954 games, 242 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana and Gelfand tied with 6.5/11, beating out Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, Dominguez Perez, Grischuk, Svidler, Andreikin, Radjabov, Kasimdzhanov and Tomashevsky. (66 games, 12 players, 25 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So defeated Webster University teammate Ray Robson in the final match to clinch the championship and $100,000. (248 games, 124 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Lu Shanglei of China took the title with 10/13 half a point clear of his compatriot Wei Yi. (855 games, 135 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia dominated the Girls event winning with 11/13 one and half points clear of Sarasadat Khademalsharieh of Iran. (499 games, 78 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short wins with 7.5/9, beating out Michael Adams, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Laurent Fressinet, Gabriel Sargissian, Julio Granda Zuniga, et al. (323 games, 74 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Zhigalko, Inarkiev, Areshchenko, Kuzubov, et al. Inarkiev beat out Lupulescu on the tiebreak after both finished with 7/9. (279 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Aronian, Anand, Ponomariov, and Vallejo Pons faced off for a DRR with 3-1-0 scoring. Anand won with 11 points. (12 games, 4 players, 19 discussion pages.)
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Taking place alongside the Bilbao Masters, SOCAR Azerbaijan (Giri, Topalov, Radjabov, et al) won with a perfect 7/7. (434 games, 255 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Naiditsch beat out Nisipeanu, Meier, Fridman, Baramidze, Schlosser, Blubaum, Wagner with 5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2014 Sinquefield Cup was arguably the strongest tournament ever, with Carlsen, Aronian, Caruana, Nakamura, Topalov, and Vachier-Lagrave. Caruana started with an incredible 7/7 and won with 8.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 77 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nakamura takes on Stockfish in a four game match. In two of the games, the GM received assistance from Rybka. In the other two, pawn and move odds. The computer won 3 to 1. (4 games, 3 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hou Yifan shared first place with Ju Wenjun and with that secured victory in the entire Grand Prix series. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Fressinet, Bacrot, Degraeve, Dorfman, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Melkumyan beats out Rapport on tiebreaks, both finishing on 7.5/9. (162 games, 101 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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China wins, losing just one game in 11 rounds. Hungary took the silver and India took the bronze after a near-perfect final round. (3,713 games, 845 players, 66 discussion pages.)
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Russia wins the gold, China takes silver, Ukraine took the bronze. (2,890 games, 656 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Jonathan Hawkins and David Howell shared the title with 8.5/11, beating out Nicholas Pert, Simon Williams, John Emms, et al. (307 games, 59 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi won with 9/10 a full point ahead of Gawain Jones, Matlakov, Rodshtein and Negi. (1,438 games, 310 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (6/10) beats out Anish Giri, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Motylev and Hou Yifan. (30 games, 6 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A side event to the Gideon Japhet Memorial, Svidler beat Gelfand 5 to 3. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana, Kramnik, Adams, Leko, Ponomariov, Naiditsch, Meier, and Baramidze. Caruana won by a point and a half with 5.5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dzagnidze, Muzychuk, Pogonina, Gunina, Girya, et al. (634 games, 116 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Baadur Jobava, Zoltan Almasi, Emil Sutovsky, Daniele Vocaturo and Sabino Brunello. (21 games, 7 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Loek van Wely, Sergei Tiviakov, Erwin L'Ami, Robin van Kampen, Dimitri Reinderman, Sipke Ernst, Benjamin Bok, and Wouter Spoelman. (29 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Zhaoqin Peng, Tea Bosboom-Lanchava, Iosefina Paulet, Bianca Muhren, Anne Haast, Ioana-Smaranda Padurariu, Lisa Hortensius, and Anna-Maja Kazarian. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Six pairs of men and women play a 6-round rapid. Teams: Nigel Short / Yifan Hou, Zhu Chen / Yasser Seirawan, Yu Shaoteng / Xu Yuhua, Ye Jiangchuan / Alisa Maric, Artur Yusupov / Maia Chiburdanidze, Liu Shilan / Xie Jun. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren and Bu Xiangzhi tied with 6.5/9, ahead of Naiditsch, Ponomariov, Yangyi Yu, Wei Yi, Qun Ma, Zhou Weiqi, Xiu Deshun, and Zhao Jun. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yifan Hou triumphed with 9/11 over Humpy Koneru, Zhao Xue, Anna Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk wins with 7/8, beating second place Wesley So by a half-point. (45 games, 10 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Aronian, Grischuk, Anand, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, Vachier-Lagrave, Svidler, Gelfand, et al. Magnus Carlsen won with 17/21 points. (1,048 games, 113 players, 21 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top players include Carlsen, Aronian, Grischuk, Anand, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, Vachier-Lagrave, Svidler, Gelfand, et al. Carlsen won with 11/15. (613 games, 109 players, 24 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This super tournament featured 7 out of the top 10 players! Lineup: Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Caruana, Topalov, Karjakin, Svidler, Grischuk, Giri, and Agdestein. Sergey Karjakin won scoring 5 points out of the last 6 games. (45 games, 10 players, 74 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The super tournament kicked off with a one day blitz event. Magnus Carlsen wins undefeated with 7.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jakovenko, Motylev, Tomashevsky, et al. (215 games, 48 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Kovalevskaya, Girya, Bodnaruk, et al. (142 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The Cez Trophy is a four game match between David Navara and Hikaru Nakamura in Prague. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top palyers include Vachier-Lagrave, Wojtaszek, Navara, Volokitin, Riazantsev et al. (440 games, 116 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Team competition with Liren Ding, Le Quang Liem, Yu Yangyi, Krishnan Sasikiran, Parimarjan Negi, Wei Yi, et al. (185 games, 49 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Team competition with Ju Wenjun, Dronavalli Harika, Tan Zhongyi, Huang Qian, Yang Shen, et al. (60 games, 30 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top players include Kamsky, Timur Gareev, Alex Onischuk, Varuzhan Akobian, Sergey Erenburg, and Ray Robson. Kamsky defeated Lenderman and Akobian (also with 7/11) in the rapid tiebreaks to become the 2014 US Champion. (66 games, 12 players, 19 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players include Irina Krush, Anna Zatonskih, Sabina-Francesca Foisor, Katerina Nemcova, and Tatev Abrahamyan. Krush retained her titled after defeating Abrahamyan in rapid tiebreak. (45 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jakovenko, Nepomniachtchi, Morozevich, Motylev, Shirov, Bologan, Bacrot, Eljanov, Sutovsky and Ivan Saric. Morozevich won with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Laurent Fressinet, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Jan Timman, Nils Grandelius, Erik Blomqvist and Axel Smith. Laurent Fressinet took first with 3.5/5, half a point ahead of Axel Smith. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Elite group: Dominguez, Ivanchuk, So, Vallejo, Almasi and Bruzon. Welsey So took clear first with 6.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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16 teams compete. The team "Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova" (including Caruana, Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave) placed first with one point over Chieti (Ivan Lopez Salgado, Carlos Palermo Garcia, Alessio Valsecchi, et al.) (167 games, 82 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, and Radjabov. Carlsen defeated co-leader Caruana in the final round to win the tournament with 6.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 72 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pavel Eljanov, Wang Hao, Etienne Bacrot, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Alexander Motylev, Rauf Mamedov, Gadir Guseinov, Eltaj Safarli, Vasif Durarbayli, and Nijat Abasov. Eljanov wins with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Includes Muzychuk, T Kosintseva, Zhao Xue, Kosteniuk, Gunina, Ushenina, et al. Lahno edged ot Kosteniuk on tiebreaks, both with 10.5/15. (255 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anna Muzychuk won with 23/30 by a full 2.5 points ahead of second place Nana Dzagnidze. (492 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Includes Yifan Hou, Muzychuk, Tatiana Kosintseva, Zhao Xue, Stefanova, et al. (66 games, 12 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds Evgeny Postny won with 7/9. (186 games, 43 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Malachite (Karjakin, Grischuk, et al) won. Top players included Grischuk, Karjakin, Svidler, Vitiugov, Nepomniachtchi, Jakovenko, Morozevich, Leko, Shirov, Kamsky, et al. (251 games, 98 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Ugra (Cmilyte, Pogonina, et al) won. Top players included Galliamova, Gunina, Cmilyte, Pogonina, et al. (48 games, 20 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ivanchuk dominates the field with an incredible 13/14. Also playing were Malakhkov, Fridman, Shirov, Van Wely, Bologan, Navara, Alekseev, et al. (70 games, 31 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A double round-robin to determine Carlsen's challenger in November. The all-star participants are: Anand, Kramnik, Andreikin, Topalov, Mamedyarov, Aronian, Karjakin, and Svidler. Vishy has won the event with 8.5/14, and has earned his rematch against Carlsen in November. (56 games, 8 players, 222 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Motylev scored a fine victory with 9/11 a point clear of the field. Other top seeds included Bacrot, Eljanov, Jakovenko, Korobov, Malakhov, Tomashevsky, Wojtaszek, Moiseenko, Fressinet, Almasi, Areshchenko, Judit Polgar, and more. 263 players in all. (1,346 games, 257 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yu Yangyi barely edged out Ding Liren on tiebreaks to claim the title. Also playing were Zhou Jianchao, Yifan Hou, Wen Yang, Wei Yi, Zhao Jun, Qun Ma, Xiu Deshun, Zeng Chongsheng, Liu Qingnan, and Lin Chen. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Li Chao wins with 8.5/10. Other top seeds included Naiditsch, Berkes, Rapport, A Bassem, G Jones, Kobalia, L'ami, et al. (1,166 games, 255 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Axel Bachmann beat Sergei Azarov on tiebreaks, both with 7.5/9. Other top seeds included Ding Liren, Iturrizaga, Negi, Gupta, Ganguly, et al. (704 games, 305 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Top seed Baadur Jobava edged out Fedorchuk and Oleksienko on tiebreaks, all finishing with 7/9. (135 games, 78 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones wins with 5.5/6. (118 games, 41 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Cheparniov beat out Ivanchuk on tiebreaks. Other top players included Adams, Vachier-Lagrave, Kamsky, Short, et al. (1,235 games, 256 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Aronian, Anand, Caruana, Nakamura and Gelfand made this the strongest Zurich Challenge ever. There were five rounds of blitz, five rounds of classical, and five rounds of rapid. Magnus Carlsen was the overall winner, winning the blitz on tiebreak and the classical. Caruana won the rapid. (15 games, 6 players, 55 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Five rounds with Carlsen, Aronian, Anand, Caruana, Nakamura and Gelfand. Caruana won the event with 4/5, but that wasn't quite enough to displace Carlsen as the overall winner. (15 games, 6 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The blitz tournament serves as an introduction to the main event, and will also be used to determine coloration and break ties if necessary. It was won by Carlsen on tiebreaks against Aronian. (15 games, 6 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A ten player round robin rapid that includes Grischuk, Morozevich and Nepomniachtchi. The women's section includes Kosteniuk, Kovalevskaya and Gunina. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Aronian won the tournament by a point and a half (8/11) in spite of a surprise upset against Van Wely in the final round. (66 games, 12 players, 63 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivan Saric won with 10/13 a point and a half clear of Timman and Jobava. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Won by Pu Chen Wang with 7.5/9. (131 games, 30 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Bartosz Socko, Ilya Smirin, Michal Krasenkow, Sergey Volkov and Jon Ludvig Hammer. (292 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Mchedlishvili, Khenkin, Qun Ma, Hebden, Pert, Gormally, Flear, et al. (402 games, 96 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Four way tie for first place among Andriasian, L'Ami, Bok, and Ernst. (455 games, 103 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman play a 4-game match as part of the Groningen Chess Festival. (4 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dmitry Jakovenko won again, beating out Kovalenko, Smirnov, Vladimir Onischuk, et al. (31 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A "Basque game" is where players play two simultaneous games against one another, one of each color. Karjakin won the men's section. (80 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A "Basque game" is where players play two simultaneous games against one another, one of each color. Zhao Xue won the women's section. (80 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wang Yue beat out Aronian, Radjabov, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, et al. (56 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Gunina beat out Hou Yifan, Koneru, Muzychuk, T Kosintseva, Kosteniuk, et al. (56 games, 16 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Karjakin beat out Aronian, Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Wang Yue, et al. (238 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hou Yifan beat out Koneru, Muzychuk, T Kosintseva, Kosteniuk, et al. (240 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura beats out Kramnik, Anand, Gelfand, Caruana, Short, Adams, and Svidler. (18 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Jon Ludvig Hammer wins with 7.5/9 after beating Abhijeet Gupta in the final round. two qualifiers seeded into a super-GM quadruple quad (Featuring Anand, Kramnik, Svidler, Gelfand, J Polgar, Nakamura, Caruana et al. Discussion forum now open. (783 games, 189 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Adams, Anand, McShane, Istratescu. (12 games, 4 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Kramnik, Rowson, Svidler, Sadler. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Gelfand, Nakamura, Jones, Polgar. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Caruana, Howell, Short, Sutovsky. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Daniil Dubov and Alexei Shirov play 6 rounds. Experience trumps youth this time: Shirov won with a huge 5-1 margin. (6 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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An annual tradition pairing legendary grandmasters (Gulko, Ivkov, Uhlmann and Dorfman) against the rising generation of women players ((Kashlinskaya, Muzychuk, Ziaziulkina and Cmilyte). After six rounds, the ladies have the upper hand 14.5 to 9.5. (24 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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10 nations competed. Russia retained the title by a point. Leading players competing included Aronian, Kramnik, Nakamura, Grischuk, Karjakin, Vitiugov, Giri, Ivanchuk etc. (180 games, 50 players, 20 discussion pages.)
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After only 10 games, Magnus Carlsen clinched victory with a score of 6.5 to 3.5. Congratulations to the new World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen! (10 games, 2 players, 391 discussion pages.)
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The 2013/14 season kicks off in Emsdetten, and includes some of the world's strongest players. Discussion forum now open. (957 games, 237 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Azerbaijan (Mamedyarov, Radjabov, et al) wins with 14/18, a clear point ahead of France, Russia, and Armenia. (682 games, 187 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Ukraine (Lagno, Ushenina, et al) wins with 15/18, a clear point ahead of Russia and Poland. (575 games, 160 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ivanchuk, Karpov, Bacrot, Pelletier, Muzychuk, Maisuradze, Zhao Xue and Sebag played in a qualification stage. Karpov was the champion of the qualification stage with 11/14 but lost to Bacrot in the final blitz stage. (56 games, 8 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Balog Csaba was crowned winner of the 18th edition of Casino Barcelona with 4.5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Czech team Novy Bor (Navara, Wojtaszek, Laznicka, Sasikiran et al) won the event, ahead of 2nd place Malachite (Grischuk, Karjakin, Morozevich, Shirov et al). (1,080 games, 365 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hands-down favorites Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Hou, Koneru, Muzychuk, Cramling, Skripchenko et al.) won the event with a perfect score. (131 games, 48 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Michael Adams, Wesley So, Loek van Wely and Robin van Kampen played in a 6 round DRR; Wesley won with a round to spare at 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Rodshtein was able to keep his lead in the open group and won half a point ahead of Moskalenko and L'Ami. (336 games, 77 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Svidler won after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi 1.5-0.5 in a rapid tie-break. (45 games, 10 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Valentina Gunina won the women's title with 7/9 half a point clear of Alexandra Kosteniuk. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Over 250 players compete. Top seeds include Eljanov, Alekseev, Areshchenko, Akopian, Zhigalko, Volkov, etc. Discussion forum now open. (1,142 games, 260 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The top competition of the Grand Slam circuit featured Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Mamedyarov, and Adams. Aronian won with an undefeated 4/6. (12 games, 4 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Fabiano Caruana took clear first place with 5/8 beating out Ponomariov, Wang Hao, Radjabov, and Nisipeanu. (20 games, 5 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gelfand and Caruana share first place with 7/11, after Nakamura lost a critical game to Gelfand in the penultimate round. (66 games, 12 players, 37 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Humpy Koneru wins with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov and Laznicka played a 6 game match. Topalov won 4-2. Concurrent with that page, Tadeas Kriebel played Oleg Romanishin, which was tied 3-3. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Alekseev, Dreev, Zhigalko, Efimenko, Sutovsky, Smirin, et al. Discussion forum now open. (304 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Yu Yangyi won the title, beating out champion Ipatov by half a point. (736 games, 117 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Russian Aleksandra Goryachkina won the women's title by a full point. (486 games, 77 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hou Yifan reclaimed the title from Anna Ushenina of Ukraine with a dominating 5.5-1.5 victory. (7 games, 2 players, 36 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The first-ever Super GM tournament held in St. Louis featured four of the world's strongest players: Carlsen, Aronian, Nakamura, and Kamsky. Carlsen won by a full point with 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 44 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A rapid knockout tournament played at 25 min + 10s/move (with blitz/Armageddon tiebreaks). Grischuk defeated Nepomniachtchi in the final. (39 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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22 year old Ivan Salgado Lopez took clear first with 7.5/9. (270 games, 80 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Eljanov beat out Jakovenko, Nepomniachtchi, Onischuk et al. finishing with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Sergey Karjakin emerged first from a very strong field at 14.5/19. Discussion forum now open. (152 games, 20 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Kramnik emerged victorious after 7 rounds of knock-outs, culminating in a 4-game match with Dimitry Andreikin (who has also now qualified for the 2014 Candidates.) Other top seeds also included Aronian, Caruana, Grischuk, Karjakin, Nakamura, Gelfand, Kamsky, and Svidler. (431 games, 127 players, 208 discussion pages.)
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David Howell clinched it with a round to spare, finishing on 9.5/11, beating out Gawain Jones, Simon Williams, Mark Hebden, Stephen Gordon, Daniel Gormally et al. (509 games, 106 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Michael Adams beat out Kramnik, Caruana, Leko, Wang Hao, et al. with an undefeated 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 40 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Players: Vachier-Lagrave, Nepomniachtchi, Bacrot, Ding Liren, Moiseenko, and Rapport. After a 4-way tie, Vachier-Lagrave beat out Ding Liren, Moiseenko, and Bacrot in the playoffs. (30 games, 6 players, 15 discussion pages.)
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Parimarjan Negi finished first with an astounding 9/10 in this very strong field. (720 games, 271 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hoang Thanh Trang finished first with 9/11, beating out Muzychuk, Dzagnidze, Lahno, Pogonina, et al. (922 games, 168 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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5 classical and 10 rapid games with teams of 5 men and 5 women playing each other. Top seeds are Ray Robson and Wang Yue. China crushed, winning the classical 31-19 and the rapid 70.5-29.5. (50 games, 20 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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After a giant 10-way tie at 6/9, Varuzhan Akobian emerged victorious after drawing with Black in an Armageddon game against Yuniesky Quesada. (212 games, 91 players, 1 discussion page.)
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S.P. Sethuraman beat out Deep Sengupta on tie-breaks after both scored 7.5/9 in this strong open. (299 games, 75 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wesley So beat Zaven Andriasian in the playoff after a giant 9-way tie at 6.5/9. (216 games, 74 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Players: Topalov, Karjakin, Grischuk, Morozevich, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Mamedyarov, Wang Hao, Kamsky, Leko, Giri, Wang Yue. Mamedyarov was victorious with 7/11 (+5 -2 =4). Veselin Topalov was declared winner of the Grand Prix Series, making him first qualifier for the 2014 Candidates. (66 games, 12 players, 25 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dimitri Reinderman and Wouter Spoelman tied for first on 5.5/7 with Reinderman winning the rapid playoff 2-0. Lisa Schut won the women's section. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Lazaro Bruzon beat out 2nd place Nigel Short with a phenomenal +7 -0 =2. (Special 3-1-0 scoring was in effect.) (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Knock-out style rapid tournament involving eight GMs: Players: Kramnik, Judit Polgar, Nakamura, Mamedyarov, Bacrot, Kosteniuk, Edouard, and Pelletier. Mamedyarov defeated Kramnik in the final on Sunday. (40 games, 8 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen played a four game rapid match against friend Borki Predojevic, winning 2.5 to 1.5. (4 games, 2 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yuriy Kryvoruchko beat out Ruslan Ponomariov on tiebreaks, after both finished with 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Lineup: Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Nakamura, Gelfand, Karjakin, Caruana, Mamedyarov, Morozevich, and Andreikin. After beating the leader Nakamura in the 7th round, Gelfand cruised to the finish and won the event with an impressive 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 52 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Before the main event, this blitz tournament is used to determine pairing numbers. Nakamura beat out Anand by half a point at 7/9. Nakamura chose #5, giving him white in the crucial first and last rounds. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This is the qualifier for the superfinals in October. Top seeds include Jakovenko, Nepomniachtchi, Vitiugov, et al. Also see the women's section. (225 games, 50 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Koneru Humpy beat out Muzychuk, Dzagnidze, Stefanova, et al. with lossless 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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David Navara played a four game match against Yifan Hou. The final score was tied, all games drawn. (7 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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On the final day, Mamedyarov scored a perfect 5/5 against leader Nepomniachtchi to take the title. (435 games, 58 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Le Quang Liem is the 2013 World Blitz Champion after scoring 20.5/30, a half-point ahead of all others. (900 games, 60 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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With a round to spare, Clichy (Vachier-Lagrave, Fressinet, Van Wely, Jakovenko, et al.) clinched this year's title. (528 games, 134 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Sergey Karjakin took clear first with 6.5/9 half a point clear of Veselin Topalov. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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In an exciting final round, Leinier Dominguez Perez's victory over Topalov, combined with Kamsky stumbling against Caruana, secured Leinier clear first place. Top seeds included Topalov, Caruana, Morozevich, Nakamura, and Ivanchuk. (66 games, 12 players, 24 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren finishes with 7/9, beating out Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Yangyi Yu and others. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short, Richard Rapport and Nils Grandelius all finished with 4.5/7 (28 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Carlsen, Aronian, Radjabov, Karjakin, Anand, Topalov, Nakamura, Svidler, Wang Hao, and Jon Ludvig Hammer participate in Norway's first supertournament. Karjakin wins the event with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 54 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Norway Supertournament kicks off with a blitz event which determines the pairings. Karjakin won with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Moiseenko finished first on tie-break from Alekseev, Romanov, Beliavsky, Lupulescu, Vallejo Pons, Movsesian, Nepomniachtchi, Dreev and Melkumyan after all finished on 8/11. (1,465 games, 280 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Hou Yifan, Muzychuk, Dzagnidze, Lahno, Tatiana Kosintseva--but the winner was the Georgian WGM Bela Khotenashvili with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gata Kamsky beat out Alejandro Ramirez-Alvarez in the rapid tiebreaks to become the 2013 USA Champion. (108 games, 24 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Defending champion Irina Krush wins with an amazing 8.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gelfand and Aronian shared first place with 5.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov was in fine form, winning by a full point and a half (8/11). (66 games, 12 players, 21 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wang Yue (top seed) won by a point and a half. (65 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ding Yixin is the 2013 Chinese Women's Chess Champion. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A very strong field, despite the fact that Tomsk-400 could not attend. Karjakin, Caruana, Mamedyarov, Grischuk, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Leko, Kamsky, et al. CF St. Petersburg won the championship aided by a last round win by Grischuk as black against the Ruy Lopez. (210 games, 105 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Ushenina, Pogonina, Gunina, et al. Yugra (Ushenina, Pogonina, Kovanova, Romanko, Shadrina) took the gold, edging out SHSM by 1.5 points. (60 games, 29 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A double round-robin with Gelfand, Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Grischuk, and Svidler. In the final round, tournament leaders Carlsen and Kramnik both lost their games--but Magnus Carlsen prevails on tiebreak (most wins) and will therefore challenge Anand later this year. (56 games, 8 players, 484 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Le Quang Liem took clear first with 7.5/9. (228 games, 92 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Mark Tseitlin (men) and Margarita Voiska (women's section) took first place both by a half-point. (216 games, 83 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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10 countries competed: India, USA, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, France, Romania, China, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. Ukraine took the gold, ahead of China and Russia. (180 games, 50 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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A massive 8-way tie for 1st place, and Sanan Sjugirov won the event on tiebreaks. (691 games, 306 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 20th Bunratty Chess Festival stars Michael Adams and Nigel Short. Adams took a quick draw in the final round against Richard Bates to clinch first with 5.5/6. (18 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A four player double round-robin featuring Anand, Kramnik, Gelfand, and Caruana. Before the main event, the four played a blitz tournament, which was won by Caruana. That was a good omen, as Caruana went on to win the main event with 4/6. (12 games, 4 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So, Pavel Eljanov, and Bassem Amin all tied for first with 8/10. (715 games, 227 players, 23 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Viswanathan Anand scored back-to-back victories in the final rounds to overtake Caruana and seize first place. Also playing were Michael Adams, Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman and Georg Meier. (30 games, 6 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Aeroflot Open has been converted to a rapid and blitz event split into a qualification stage and 16-player rapid finals. Top seeds included Grischuk, Svidler, Andreikin, Karjakin, and Kamsky. In the end, Karjakin emerged victorious after beating Grischuk on time in an Armageddon tie-break. (143 games, 96 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Boris Savchenko surpassed top seed Nepomniachtchi and others with 7.5/9. (132 games, 89 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Vitiugov won the playoff round to break a 4-way tie with Short, Vachier-Lagrave, and Sandipan. Xue Zhao won the top female prize after a 5-hour draw with Ivanchuk. (1,126 games, 247 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 75th Wijk aan Zee tournament saw Magnus Carlsen taking an early lead and clinching his victory with a round to spare. Carlsen beat out Anand, Aronian, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, et al. with a score of 10/13, a point and a half ahead of Aronian. (91 games, 14 players, 110 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Rapport and Naiditsch tied with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Italian GM Sabino Brunello won with an astounding 11/13, beating out second place Fernando Peralta by a half-point. (91 games, 14 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seed Gawain Jones finished in first place alone on 7.5/10. (402 games, 88 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hoogeveen beat Tashkent 2.5-1.5 in the final thanks to a win from Sergei Tiviakov. Top seeds included Tomashevsky, Giri, Vachier, Short, Moiseenko, Fressinet, Wang Yue, Edouard, Smeets, Ivan Sokolov, Tiviakov, et al. (205 games, 109 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Top seeds included Zaven Andriasian, Sabino Brunello, Alexander Kovchan and Robin van Kampen. Andriasian, Ernst, and Kovchan tied for 1st with 7/9 each. (299 games, 93 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Participants are Wojtaszek, Negi, Alekseev, Korobov, Gupta and Sasikiran. Discussion forum now open. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This mixed event features bridge, chess, draughts, go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess). In the men's rapid, Laurent Fressinet beat Hikaru Nakamura and edged him to the title on tie-break after both finished on 5.5/7. In the men's blitz section Sergey Karjakin won handily with 12.5/15. Aronian won the men's blindfold section with 5.5/7. (56 games, 16 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kateryna Lahno edged out Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk on tie-break after all scored 5/7. In the women's blitz event, Kosteniuk edged out Muzychuk on tiebreaks both scoring 11.5/15. In the women's blindfold section, Hou Yifan won with an impressive 6/7. (56 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the blitz event with 18.5/22. (523 games, 285 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Four young female players (Gunina, Sachdev, Kashlinskaya, Havlikova) compete against four players old enough to remember when Petrosian was champion (Hort, Uhlmann, Olafsson, Romanishen). After a rocky start, the Old-hands made a startling comeback in the second half to win the event 17 to 15. (32 games, 8 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This stellar lineup featured Anand, Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Nakamura, Judit Polgar, Adams, McShane, and Gawain Jones. Winning with +5 -0 =3 was Magnus Carlsen, whose performance pushed his FIDE rating to a record breaking 2861. (36 games, 9 players, 53 discussion pages.)
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Top seeds Robin van Kampen and Hrant Melkumyan tied with 7.5/9. (803 games, 236 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Sethuraman Sethuraman and Marat Dzhumaev tied with 8/11 in this large Swiss open. (329 games, 88 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Some amazing chess was played in fierce final rounds, but in the end Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Morozevich and Wang Hao all tied for first with 6.5/11 points. (66 games, 12 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anna Ushenina beat out 63 other players including Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk, Natalia Pogonina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and many more. In the final, she beat out Antoaneta Stefanova in the rapid tiebreaks. (195 games, 64 players, 25 discussion pages.)
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Swiercz Dariusz from Poland won the U18 with 9/11. (614 games, 118 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Top seed Alexandra Goryachkina won the U18 with 9.5/11. (110 games, 46 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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This rapid event took place at the Moscow State University featuring Nepomniachtchi, Andreikin, Potkin, and others. Andreikin beat-out Potkin on tiebreaks, both with 9/11 points. (126 games, 80 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana, Topalov, Ivanchuk, and Nisipeanu play in a double round-robin. Topalov and Ivanchuk both were able to make wins and therefore tied the tournament. (12 games, 4 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top players include Ponomariov, Dominguez-Perez, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, Cheparinov, and more. Discussion forum now open. (166 games, 54 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Dmitry Andreikin beat Ian Nepomniachtchi in a friendly 6-game match in Moscow. Andreikin won the first round and the rest were drawn. (6 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Karpov won the tournament in his honor, beating out Ivanchuk, Eduard, and others. The knock-out games are also available. (56 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2012/13 season of the 4NCL has just begun in Sunningdale, England. It continues until May 6, 2013. Discussion forum now open. (162 games, 147 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Sanan Sjugirov won with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Shirov and Almasi are the top seeds in this prestigious Swiss. Discussion forum now open. (1,545 games, 349 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This four player double round-robin features Nakamura, Giri, Tiviakov, and Yifan Hou. Nakamura won with a mighty 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds L'Ami and Nijboer tied with 7/9. (346 games, 78 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2012/13 seasons kicks off in Forchheim. The 15 round event includes many of the world's strongest grandmasters. Discussion forum now open. (958 games, 240 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) brings together six GMs from around the globe to Webster University: Le Quang Liem, Vachier-Lagrave, Ding Liren, Csaba Balogh, Wesley So, and Georg Meier. Vachier-Lagrave won with 6/10. (30 games, 6 players, 24 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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SOCAR of Azerbaijan (Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Topalov, Grischuk, Kamsky, Sutovsky) won the gold after they smashed Tomsk-400 5 to 1 in the final round, beating out St. Petersburg on the tiebreak. (586 games, 233 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo took the gold (Koneru, Hou Yifan, Muzychuk, Cramling, Skripchenko) with a phenomenal 7/7 team victories. (111 games, 38 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Yangyi Yu beat Li Chao in tiebreaks after both finished with 7.5/9. (374 games, 104 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Six of the strongest players in the world competed: Anand, Carlsen, Aronian, Caruana, Karjakin, and Vallejo-Pons. Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen were tied with 17 points apiece under 3-1-0 scoring, then Carlsen won the blitz tiebreak. (30 games, 6 players, 42 discussion pages.)
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Dmitry Jakovenko won with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Leinier Dominguez Perez edged out Peter Svidler in the final round on tie-break after both finished on 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Simpson's-in-the-Strand hosted a supertournament won by Gelfand, Topalov, and Mamedyarov all tied at 7/11. Also playing were Grischuk, Leko, Nakamura, Ivanchuk, Wang Hao, and others. (66 games, 12 players, 23 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Koneru won the event by half a point with 8.5/11 after two victories in the last two rounds. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Cheparinov beat out Malakhov, Nisipeanu and others with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Armenia took their third gold medal defeating Hungary in the final round. Russia took the silver. Ukraine took the bronze after crushing the 10th round leaders China 3-1. (3,367 games, 766 players, 90 discussion pages.)
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Russia devastated Kazakhstan 4-0 in the final round to take the gold on tie-break from China, who earned the silver. Ukraine took the bronze. (1,846 games, 586 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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Zherebukh wins with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nikolai Pushkov beat out Kupreichik and Mochalov on tiebreaks; all finished with 7/9. (353 games, 102 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Due to the tragic death of Bauer's baby boy, the 11th round of the French Championship has been cancelled by request of the players. A playoff between the other three leaders (Edouard, Vachier-Lagrave, Bacrot) was scheduled, but on further reflection it was decided that all four players should share the title. (60 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Ipatov won the title on tie-break from Richard Rapport after both finished with 10/13. (495 games, 130 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Guo Qi of China took the women's title ahead on tie-break form Nastassia Ziaziulkina, Anastasia Bodnaruk and Warda Aulia Medina who all finished with 9.5/13. (415 games, 65 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Andreikin defeated Karjakin, Svidler, Alekseev, Potkin, and Jakovenko in the rapid tie-breaks after all 6 finished on a massive 6-way tie. (45 games, 10 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Andreikin defeated Karjakin, Svidler, Alekseev, Potkin, and Jakovenko. The time control is 15 minutes + 10s/move. (15 games, 6 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Natalia Pogonina is the 2012 Russian Women's Champion, finishing with 6.5/9. Other top seeds include Galliamova, Gunina, and the Kosintseva sisters. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Geneva Chess Club hosted a match between themselves and a group of "legends" including Viktor Korchnoi, Zoltan Ribli, Kevin Spraggett, Ulf Andersson, and Vlastimil Hort. The "legends" dominated the field. Korchnoi, Ribli, and Spraggett tied for 1st with 7/10. (50 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Shirov won the match 4 to 2. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Anton Korobov won with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivan Cheparinov beat Ivan Sokolov and Jonny Hector on tie-breaks. All three scored 8/10. (573 games, 248 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones beat Stephen Gordon in a playoff for the title after both finished with 9/11. (334 games, 64 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A double round-robin featuring 6 of the strongest players in the world: Carlsen, Nakamura, Bologan (substituting for Morozevich who withdrew after two rounds for health reasons), Wang Hao, Bacrot, and Anish Giri. Wang Hao emerged victorious with a win in the final round. (30 games, 7 players, 39 discussion pages.)
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Nakamura won this 8 player knock-out tournament. Carlsen was eliminated in the first round by Bacrot. (16 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Baadur Jobava beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek 5 to 3 in this combined classical/rapid match. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana edges out Karjakin on tiebreaks, both with 6/9. Also included were Kramnik, Leko, Ponomariov, and others. (45 games, 10 players, 14 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk beats out Kamsky, Jobava, Sasikiran, Le Quang Liem, Sutovsky and Anna Muzychuk. This event returned to the old-fashioned method of giving players 2.5 hours to play 40 moves, followed by an adjournment. (21 games, 7 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anish Giri won handily with 6/7. Also see the women's section, won by Tea Bosboom-Lanchava. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Zhao Xue, and Kateryna Lahno. Hou Yifan finished in clear first with 7/11. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Grischuk wins with 20/30 points, a half point clear of second-place Carlsen. (240 games, 16 players, 73 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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In an exciting finish, Karjakin catches up and overtakes Carlsen to become the 2012 World Rapid Champion. (120 games, 16 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sokolov defeated Shabalov in the Armageddon playoff to take the top prize. (176 games, 87 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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The best teams in Russia play against the best teams in China. This year, Russia emerges victorious with total combined score of 77.5 beating China's 72.5. (25 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The Chinese women, led by Ju Wenjun and a superb comeback by Zhao Xue, scored heavily and allowed China to win the classical portion of the match 26-24. (25 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 2012 Chinese League is a 22-round marathon event taking place in Beijing, Taizhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Tianjin. (155 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short beat out Mikhalevski, Kovalyov, Krush, and others in this 10 player round-robin. (45 games, 10 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Dmitry Andreikin beat out Nikita Vitiugov and Daniil Dubov on tiebreaks, all finishing with 7.5/11. (253 games, 46 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Baira Kovanova took first with 9/11, and Natalia Pogonina placed clear 2nd with 8/11. (171 games, 32 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Russian Champion Peter Svidler defeated Czech Champion David Navara in a 4 game classical match in Prague, 3 to 1. (4 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Aleksandr Lenderman was dancing with joy after finishing with 5.5/6. (147 games, 87 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen won with the Black pieces in the final round against McShane to stage an incredible come-from-behind victory, taking clear first with 5.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 73 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anna Muzychuk and Humpy Koneru shared first on 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov played a friendly exhibition match against Yasser Seirawan that involved 2 classical games, 2 rapid games, and 10 blitz games. After nothing but draws at the longer time controls, an exciting flurry of blitz games settled the match in Karpov's favor, 8 to 6. (14 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial kicked off with a blitz event, which saw Morozevich taking the €5000 first prize from Magnus Carlsen, both of whom scored 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 25th Leon Masters features a 6 game rapid match between Topalov and his former second, Vallejo-Pons. Vallejo beat Topalov 3.5 to 2.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi beat out Ni Hua on tiebreaks. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladimir Akopian won on tiebreaks over Cheparinov, T L Petrosian, Nabaty and Grigoryan. All four scored 7 out of 9. (371 games, 113 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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With 7.5/9 points, teenager Lu Shanglei was the surprise winner at this open, beating out Akopian, L'Ami, Cheparinov, T L Petrosian, and many other GMs. (525 games, 191 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Antoaneta Stefanova won with 8.5/11, beating out Koneru, Kosteniuk, Muzychuk, and others. (274 games, 50 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short is touring South America, including this rapid exhibition match against Peruvian chess legend Julio Granda Zuniga. Nigel won 3.5 to 2.5. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The top teams are Chalons en Champagne (w/ Giri), Evry Grand Roque (w/ Le Quang Liem), and Clichy (w/ Ivanchuk, Fressinet, Wesley So). (440 games, 113 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The first 12 rounds were tied, so the match moved into rapid tiebreaks. After a victory in the second rapid, Anand was able to defend his title for a third time. Congratulations to Vishy. (16 games, 2 players, 194 discussion pages.)
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Shirov is top seed in this 8-man event. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladislav Artemiev won this 12 player round-robin for children that includes some of the brightest futures of chess. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura defeated his main rival Kamsky in the 10th round to secure his victory as the 2012 US Champion. His final score was an impressive 8.5/11 (+6 -0 =5). (66 games, 12 players, 14 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Krush and Zatonskih were tied at 7/9, but Irina Krush won both of the rapid tiebreaks to become the 2012 US Women's Champion. (47 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Parimarjan Negi took first place on tie-break from Yu Yangyi after both scored 7/9. (314 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Irine Kharisma Sukandar took clear first with 7/9. (179 games, 41 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Caruana beat out Leko, Li Chao, Giri, Emanuel Berg, Hans Tikkanen, Jonny Hector and Nils Grandelius. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk beat out Dominguez Perez, Quesada Perez, Nepomniachtchi, and Potkin in this traditional celebration of Cuban chess. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov won a clock simul against some of Europe's top juniors, scoring +4 -2 =2. Topalov conceded defeat against 16 year old GM Richard Rapport, and 13 year old Martin Christian Huber. (8 games, 9 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The favorites are Obiettivo Risarcimento (Padova) with Caruana, Nakamura, and Georgiev. (201 games, 85 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Kramnik and Aronian played a 6 game classical match in Zurich, tied 3 to 3. (6 games, 2 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short scored a fantastic 8/9 which (including a quick draw in the final round against Nguyen Duc Hoa). (28 games, 19 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ni Hua won on tiebreaks after getting off to a fabulous start (4/4) at this very strong Swiss. (190 games, 90 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tomsk-400 cruised to the finish line with Sergey Karjakin on board one boasting a 2896 performance rating. (379 games, 135 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Ladya/Kazan won the women's event, with Nadezhda Kosintseva on board one. (84 games, 35 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ding Liren becomes the Chinese Champion for the third year in a row, finishing with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Huang Qian and Zhang Xiaowen both finish with 8/11, but Huang Qian took gold on tiebreak. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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100 players rated over 2600 at the biggest Swiss of the year! Dmitry Jakovenko trailed Fressinet by a half point going into the final round, then beat him to take the title with 8.5/11. (1,858 games, 345 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Tatiana Kosintseva won with 9/11 points, while Alexandra Kosteniuk took the silver medal and Elisabeth Paehtz took third. (222 games, 47 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Involving Nana Dzagnidze, Anna Muzychuk, Tatiana and Nadezhda Kosintseva, Kateryna Lahno, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and many more. In the end, Tatiana Kosintseva, Valentina Gunina, and Anna Muzychuk all tied for first with 8.5/11. (561 games, 103 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This 9 round swiss has attracted GMs such as Caruana, Navara, Hou Yifan, Sokolov, and many more. Caruana avoided Hou Yifan's traps in the final round to take fiirst place. (844 games, 197 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Almost 500 players, including 74 GMs, participated at the Palais des arts, in Cappelle-la-Grande. Pentala Harikrishna won with 7/9. (380 games, 206 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Café Batavia 1920 (Amsterdam) hosts this tournament including Sipke Ernst, Mark Hebden, and the surprise runaway winner Dr. Achim Illner (FM). (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Mateusz Bartel and Bartlomiej Macieja both finished on 7/9, but Bartel emerged victorious in the tiebreak to become the 2012 Polish Champion. WGM Iweta Rajlich won the women's section. (109 games, 24 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Pia Cramling and Nana Dzagnidze finished on 8/11, and Nana won the playoff. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This Irish weekender attracted Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Alex Baburin, Mark Hebden, Simon Williams, Gawain Jones, and others. Top seeds Nigel Short and Michael Adams both finished with 5/6, drawing their game together. Adams took first place on tiebreaks. (35 games, 27 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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On the 18th and 19th, four strong GMs (Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Mamedyarov, and Shirov) were seeded with four qualifiers in a two day round robin. Alexander Morozevich won the final phase 18th-19th February with a score of 5/7 half a point clear of Alexei Shirov and Igor Kovalenko. (34 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This 9 round open attracted many 2600+ and 2700+ players including Caruana, Jobava, Quang Liem Le, Sasikiran, and Vallejo Pons. In the end, three players tied at 6.5/9 but Mateusz Bartel of Poland edged out Korobov and Eljanov on tie-break. (368 games, 85 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This giant open tournament attracted luminaries such as Svidler, Mamedyarov, Adams, Short, Hou Yifan, Akobian, Korchnoi, Shirov and Judit Polgar. In the final round, Nigel Short caught up with the tournament leader Yifan Hou with a fine win against Sasikiran. Short went on to beat Hou in a 2 game blitz playoff to be crowned winner. (1,231 games, 256 players, 14 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 74th Wijk aan Zee Tournament (aka "Tata Steel") is the strongest one ever. Aronian beat out Nakamura (last year's winner) as well as Carlsen, Topalov, Ivanchuk, and others, finishing with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 88 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pentala Harikrishna won the B Group with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxim Turov won the C Group with 10.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Darryl K Johansen took first place on tie-break after defeating Gawain Jones in the final round. He, along with Li Chao B and Zhao Jun, finished on 7.5/9. (209 games, 96 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Leading players: Wang Yue, David Howell, Andrei Istratescu, Romain Edouard, Yuri Vovk. Wang Yue finished first with 7.5/9. (499 games, 117 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This knock-out starred Gashimov, Mamedyarov, Bacrot, Moiseenko, Naiditsch and others. The real twist was that matches consisted of two games of classical chess played simultaneously, an old idea by David Bronstein. In the end, Andrei Volokitin beat Viktor Laznicka 2-0 in the tiebreak. (102 games, 59 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 54th Reggio Emilia featured Ivankchuk, Morozevich, Nakamura, Vitugov, Giri, and Caruana. Anish Giri took clear first, after a surprising finish. (30 games, 6 players, 19 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alex Kovchan beat Robert Hess on tiebreaks, after both finished with 7/9. Also playing were Sergei Tiviakov, Evgeny Romanov, Sipke Ernst, and many others. (238 games, 55 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hrant Melkumyan won the blitz event beating Alexey Dreev in a final playoff. (116 games, 61 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Jobava Baadur won the rapid event with 11/13. (545 games, 268 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Players include Koneru, Mkrtchian, Dembo, Muzychuk, Yifan Hou, and the Kosintseva sisters. (179 games, 49 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Similar to the Amber tournament of the past, this tournament pits players in rapid, blitz, and blindfold events. Discussion forum now open. (56 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Similar to the Amber tournament of the past, this tournament pits players in rapid, blitz, and blindfold events. (56 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The blindfold event was tied between Vachier-Lagrave and Zoltan Almasi, both at 5/7. (54 games, 16 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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Yifan Hou is the blindfold lady of the event, winning by a full point at 5.5/7. (49 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vachier-Lagrave finished first with 6.5/8. Antoaneta Stefanova won the Women's Blitz event. (61 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Kramnik defeated a steller field of Carlsen, Anand, Nakamura, Aronian, Short, Adams, McShane, and Howell. (36 games, 9 players, 54 discussion pages.)
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A battle between "old hands" (Robert Huebner, Vlastimil Hort, Boris Gulko, Rafael Vaganian) and "snow drops" (Mariya Muzychuk, Natalia Pogonina, Eva Kulovana, Tania Sachdev). (32 games, 8 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Junior is the new computer champ, now that Rybka has been dishonorably disqualified. (36 games, 9 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A last round victory by Carlsen put him in the money alongside Aronian, both with 5.5 out of 9. Also playing: Anand, Kramnik, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Nakamura, Gelfand, Svidler, and Nepomniachtchi. (45 games, 10 players, 46 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yifan Hou retained her title against challenger Humpy Koneru in only 8 games. Congratulations to Hou, the Womens World Champion for 2011-2012. (8 games, 2 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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IM Vladimir Okhotnik defeated GM Bojan Kurajica in the last round and took a clear first place with 9/11. (424 games, 156 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The German team unexpectedly defeated Armenia to secure first. Azerbaijan finished second, and Hungary's amazing final round sweep over Bulgaria (4-0) secured the bronze. (684 games, 187 players, 16 discussion pages.)
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The Russian team took the gold for the third consecutive year. Poland took the silver medal; Georgia, bronze. (505 games, 137 players, 1 discussion page.)
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World Champion Anand beat Mamedyarov 2 to 0 in the final of the Corsica Masters knock-out. (43 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Sasikiran finished with 7.5/9, half a point ahead of 2nd place Gawain Jones. (89 games, 47 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Susan Polgar's annual tournament saw Le Quang Liem beating out Shulman, Robson, Dominguez-Perez, and others. Also see Group B and Group C. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Chinese League has rounds 13-15 in Qindao from Oct 26-28. Leading players are Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Le Quang Liem, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Ding Liren, Hou Yifan, and others. Discussion forum now open. (234 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Kramnik, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, and Judit Polgar competed in this double round-robin. Kramnik took sole first with 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergei Tiviakov took first place on tie-breaks from Van Kampen and Sipke Ernst who all scored 7/9. (234 games, 88 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 3rd Women's Grand Prix of the 2011-12 series saw an incredible 9.5/11 performance from Zhao Xue beating out contemporaries like Stefanova, Kosteniuk, Lahno, and the Kosintseva sisters. Her nearly perfect streak was broken only by Ju Wenjun in the final round. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Line up: Ponomariov, Morozevich, Leko, Vitiugov, Moiseenko, Shirov, Tomashevsky, Andreikin, Eljanov, Ni Hua, Roiz, and Alekseev. Morozevich won with 8.5/11. (64 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This double round-robin was won jointly by Ivan Salgado Lopez and Yasser Seirawan both with 5.5/8. (36 games, 9 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2011-2012 Germany Bundesliga kicks off in Mülheim, including Svidler, Gashimov, Adams, Bacrot, Almasi, Vallejo, Najer, and many more. (953 games, 237 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Top stars include Kamsky, Jobava, Volokitin, Nisipeanu, Fedorov, and others. Discussion forum now open. (180 games, 74 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Top stars include Cramling, Muzychuk, Melia, and others. Discussion forum now open. (89 games, 36 players, 1 discussion page.)
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England's Matthew Sadler has returned to the chess scene with a bang, scoring a phenomenal 8/9 at the Oslo Open. He was a point-and-a-half better than second place GM Sipke Ernst. (252 games, 58 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Bacrot and Karjakin tied with 5.5 out of 9. Not exactly a crowd-pleaser, over 75% of the games were draws. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This year's Bilbao Masters spanned the globe from Brazil to Spain. Magnus Carlsen trailed Ivanchuk for most of the tournament, but beat "Chuky" in the penultimate round, taking the match into blitz tiebreaks, in which Carlsen was victorious. Also played: Vallejo, Anand, Aronian, and Nakamura. (30 games, 6 players, 47 discussion pages.)
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Following his blitz match against Vachier in Clichy, Kasparov now plays an 8-game blitz match against Nigel Short in Belgium. Kasparov took the deciding 8th game to win 4.5 to 3.5. (8 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov played the entire Irish Men's Team (GM Alex Baburin, IM Sam Collins, IM Alex Lopez and IM Mark Quinn) at the same time. He tied the exhibition 2 to 2. (4 games, 5 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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St. Petersburg Chess Federation (Svidler, Vitiugov, Movsesian, Efimenko, et al) took first after defeating Mika Rtg-O (Sargissian, Petrosian, Andriasian, et al) 3.5 to 2.5. (1,201 games, 424 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The women's finals saw Russian AVS (Stefanova, Lahno, Pogonina, et al) triumph over Romanian AEM LUXTEN (Dzagnidze, Zatonskih, Javakhishvili, et al). Dzagnidze missed a win against Hou Yifan's ferocious attack. (140 games, 50 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Kasparov held a one day chess exhibition in Clichy to promote his Chess in Schools campaign, which included these two games against GM Vachier-Lagrave. (2 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2011 World Cup took place again in Khanty-Mansiysk at the Ugorian Chess Academy. Peter Svidler beat 7 players in a row to become the 2011 World Cup Winner, defeating 2nd place Grischuk in the finals. Ivanchuk beat Ponomariov to take 3rd place. (391 games, 126 players, 95 discussion pages.)
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The second Women's Grand Prix of the 2011-2012 series was pushed back to give Hou Yifan a chance to participate after her elimination in the 2011 World Cup. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This "Battle of the Sexes" featured both rapid and Fischerandom. The Kings won 31.5 to 18.5, with Nakamura being the MVP with an incredible 9.5 out of 10 points. (25 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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"The Lightning Kid" emerged victorious over Carlsen, Aronian, and Kramnik. The event had a big twist: games were stopped midway so that the players could chat about their games with the viewers. (12 games, 4 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Valentina Gunina convincingly beat out Charochkina, Galliamova, Pogonina, Kosteniuk, and others. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Korchnoi won the 2011 Botvinnik Memorial by a whole point. Time control was 25 minutes + 10s/move. Yuri Averbakh (now 89) presided as arbiter. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Vachier-Lagrave was able to contain Bacrot's sacrificial attack in the final round to become the 2011 French Champion. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Svidler captured his 6th title with a round to spare. Players: Kramnik, Morozevich, Karjakin, Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi, Svidler, Timofeev, and Galkin. (28 games, 8 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Female World Champion Yifan Hou won clear first with 8/11. Also playing were Kateryna Lahno, Koneru Humpy, and the Kosintseva sisters. (66 games, 12 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dariusz Swiercz edged out Robert Hovhannisyan on tiebreaks, both with 10.5/13. (788 games, 124 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Deysi Estela Cori Tello is the 2011 Girls' Junior World Chess Champion, finishing with an incredible 11/13. (382 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Sergei Zhigalko was the winner with 7/9 ahead of Andreikin, Sutovsky, Mamedyarov, Vallejo Pons, and others. It took place at the AF Hotel on the Caspian Sea, with a prize fund of €50K. (115 games, 47 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 98th British Championships ended with Adams beating out Short in the tiebreaks. (454 games, 89 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Lenderman is the official winner on tiebreaks, after a massive 7-way tie including Nakamura, Gelashvili, Gareyev, Alejandro Ramirez, and Kacheishvili. (306 games, 197 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Láznička beat Navara in a six game match 4.5 to 1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ju Wenjun won by a clear point and achieved her first GM norm. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 39th Dortmund Chess Meeting featured Kramnik, Nakamura, Ponomariov, Giri, Quang Liem Le, and Georg Meier. Kramnik won hands-down with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 44th Biel Chess Festival involved Carlsen, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Caruana, Morozevich, and Pelletier. Special scoring was used (wins are worth 3 points, draws are worth 1) and Magnus amassed 19 placing him in clear first. (30 games, 6 players, 18 discussion pages.)
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Armenia (with Aronian, Movsesian, Akopian, and Sargissian) beat out 9 other nations: the USA (with Kamsky and Shulman), Russia (with Karjakin, Svidler, and Grischuk), Hungary (with Judit Polgar and Leko), China (with Wang Hao and Wang Yue), Azerbaijan (with Gashimov, Mamedyarov, and Radjabov), Ukraine (with Ivanchuk), India, Israel, and Egypt. (178 games, 50 players, 18 discussion pages.)
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Maxim Turov edged out Yuri Vovk and Vladimir Georgiev on tie-break, both with 7/9. (279 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2011 Dutch Championship was won by Anish Giri with a two point lead (7.5/9) over second place Sokolov. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Peng Zhaoqin won the Women's Dutch Championship with a three point lead (9/10) over second place Anne Haast. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Gata Kamsky and Michael Adams tied for first with 7/9 points, and Kamsky claimed the 2011 World Open Champion title by winning an Armageddon game. (186 games, 80 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Fabiano Caruana beat Wesley So, Negi, Laznicka, Sasikiran, and Hou Yifan play in this double round robin. (30 games, 6 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek has a clinch on first place with one round to go. Also see the women's event, won by Alina Kashlinskaya. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Gawain Jones edged out Nigel Short on tiebreaks, both with 9.5/11. This strong open featured 388 players. (557 games, 260 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Gregory Young beat out Naroditsky, Harper, Getz, Bryant, Shen, Holt, Troff, Ding, and Sturt. He wins the cash prize but also for an automatic bid in both the World Junior Championship and the US Championship. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This double round robin featured Magnus Carlsen (in his first tournament since January's Tata Steel) who beat Sergey Karjakin using the 3rd tiebreak criterion (the Berger score) although both scored 6.5 out of 10. Also present were Radjabov, Nakamura, Ivanchuk, and Nisipeanu. (30 games, 6 players, 27 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A very strong lineup includes Vitiugov, Jakovenko, Tomashevsky, Morozevich, and others. (Also see women's section.) (337 games, 62 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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With Ivanchuk busy in the Bazna Kings Tournament, Ponomariov ran away with the show, winning 8.5 out of 11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Featuring Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Jonny Hector, Nils Grandelius and Hans Tikkanen. Wesley So, Anish Giri, and Hans Tikkanen tied with 3/5. (15 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yangyi Yu finished with 7/9 and a 2914 performance rating. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Marseille Echecs (Naiditsch, Bacrot, Istratescu, Delchev, Miton, et al) beat Clichy (Jakovenko, Fressinet, Nisipeanu, et al) to take the title. (523 games, 137 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 2011 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de León featured Anand and Shirov in a 6 game match of quick games (45m + 30s/move). Vishy demonstrated why he's World Champion, winning 4.5 to 1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 16 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 82nd German Chess Championships took place in Bonn. Igor Khenkin took first place on tie-break from Jan Gustafsson. Sarah Hoolt won the women's event convincingly. (147 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Eight players face off for the right to challenge Anand for the world title. Gelfand and Grischuk advanced into the final 6-game match, and Gelfand emerged triumphant. (54 games, 8 players, 332 discussion pages.)
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Nakamura defeated Ponomariov 3.5 to 2.5 in the classical match, followed by a 2.5-0.3 victory in a four game rapid match. (6 games, 2 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Robson gained some match experience beating Finegold 4 to 2, including an epic 137 move game in the 5th round. Their four game rapid match was tied 2 to 2. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk and Le Quang Liem tied for 1st with 6.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pentala Harikrishna, Yu Yangyi and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son finished on 6.5/9. (223 games, 50 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 2011 US Championship saw two groups pare down two finalists, who then played one another in an exciting knock-out final. In the final two-game match, Gata Kamsky beat Shulman for the title. (28 games, 8 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Group B includes Christiansen, Shabalov, Seirawan, Kaidanov, Shankland, Hess, Finegold, and Onischuk. In the end was a playoff between Onischuk and Shankland in which Shankland overtook the former champ. (28 games, 8 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anna Zatonskih defeated Tatev Abrahamyan in the knock-out to become the US Women's Champion for her fourth time. (28 games, 8 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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ShSM-64 (Gelfand, Caruana, Najer, et al) took the title from Tomsk-400 (Ponomariov, Motylev, et al) by a mere half point. (394 games, 90 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 7 round women's event was won by SHSM-RSCU headed by Alexandra Kosteniuk. (112 games, 38 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 13th Dubai Open featured 40 GMs and 9 WGMs. Abhijeet Gupta won with 7.5/9. (446 games, 135 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Wang Yue is the top seed. Hou Yifan participates in the men's division. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The women compete for the highest chess title in China. (64 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A record entry of over 200 players competed. Nigel Short, Jan Gustafsson, and Francisco Vallejo-Pons tied with 7.5/9. (193 games, 114 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Mihai Suba won on 7.5/9; Nona Gaprindashvili took the women's title. (445 games, 101 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladimir Potkin edged out Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Judit Polgar and Alexander Moiseenko on tie-break after all finished on 8.5/11. (1,272 games, 357 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 20th and final Amber tournament took place in Monte Carlo. Aronian won the overall tournament, while Carlsen placed 1st in the rapid section with 9.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 33 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Aronian beat some of the strongest players in the world, with his eyes closed. He scored 8.5/11, a full point and a half ahead of 2nd place Anand. (66 games, 12 players, 33 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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6 players finished on 7/9, they were (in order of tie-break) Kuzubov, Sokolov, Baklan, Miton, Ludvig Hammer and young talent Nyzhnyk. (739 games, 166 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The event was won by Grzegorz Gajewski who finished on 7.5/9 alone after a final round win against Alojzije Jankovic. (687 games, 300 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Koneru and Danielian tied for first in this all female tournament, both with 8/11. Koneru's Grand Prix standings now qualify her to play Hou Yifan in a Women's World Chess Championship match later this year. (66 games, 12 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The biggest open of the year saw defending champion Le Quang Liem retaining his title with 6.5 out of 9 points. (384 games, 86 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Over 200 players competed in this elite Swiss open, and Vassily Ivanchuk won with an outstanding 9/10. (1,098 games, 232 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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The event was won by Loek van Wely with 8/10. Samuel Shankland (US Junior Champ) made a GM norm. (265 games, 58 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Hikaru Nakamura placed first with 9/13 in this incredibly strong field (average Elo of 2740). (91 games, 14 players, 121 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Luke McShane and David Navara tied with 8.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Daniele Vocaturo took first place with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Shirov took clear first place with 6/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 118th New Zealand Chess Championship will be an 11-round Swiss system tournament open to all NZ players with a current NZCF standard rating of 2000 or higher. Our very own Richard Taylor is among the participants. (130 games, 26 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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6 players tied with 10.5 out of 13; a blitz tiebreak session saw Zoltan Almasi defeat Vugar Gashimov for the title. (631 games, 283 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the race to the finish. (161 games, 47 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Short, Vallejo-Pons, Ivanchuk, Movsesian, Caruana, Onischuk, Gashimov, and Godena played. Both Vugar Gashimov and Francisco Vallejo Pons scored 6/9 but the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreak system favoured Gashimov due to his victory over Vallejo. (45 games, 10 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 2010 Classic was the strongest yet, featuring Anand, Kramnik, Carlsen, Nakamura, and the top English players Adams, Short, McShane, and Howell. Magnus Carlsen's last round victory secured him first place in the special 3-point-for-a-win scoring system. (28 games, 8 players, 81 discussion pages.)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi won his first Russian title by defeating Sergey Karjakin in the tiebreaks. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The German Schachbundesliga starts its 8th season at the venues Baden-Baden, Bremen, Wattenscheid and Aue. We will be adding games to this tournament page throughout the year. (843 games, 235 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Top seed is India's Humpy Koneru. Other players include Pogonina, Paehtz, Kosteniuk, Cramling, Yifan Hou, and both Kosintsevas. Discussion forum now open. (175 games, 62 players, 22 discussion pages.)
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A rapid knock-out involving Judit Polgar, Topalov, Ivanchuk, and Manuel Leon Hoyos. Judit Polgar won the whole event including a King's Gambit in the final round. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This year's lineup includes Alexandra Kosteniuk, Nazi Paikidze, Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk, Tatiana Kosintseva, and Natalia Pogonina. There was a three-way tie for first among Galliamova-Ivanchuk, Kosintseva, and Pogonina, all with 7 out of 11. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the rapid event; the team events are now under way. (206 games, 76 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Hou Yifan won the rapid event; the team events are now under way. Discussion forum now open. (146 games, 53 players, 1 discussion page.)
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All of the players in the Tal Memorial plus a dozen more strong GMs (Carlsen, Svidler, Movsesian, et al) played to determine the world's best blitz chess player: Aronian. (377 games, 20 players, 53 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Aronian, Mamedyarov, and Karjakin tied for 1st with 5.5 out of 9. Also playing were Kramnik, Grischuk, Gelfand, Shirov, Eljanov, Nakamura, and Wang Hao. (45 games, 10 players, 43 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 2010 SPICE Cup (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) involved Zoltan Almasi, Alexander Onischuk Wesley So, Georg Meier, Ray Robson and Eugene Perelshteyn. Onischuk won under the special scoring (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.) (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Group B winner was GM Gergely Antal. (39 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took first ahead of Shirov, Giri, and Tiviakov. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This 10 round double round-robin featured Carlsen, Topalov, Anand, Gashimov, Bacrot, and Wang Yue. GM Carlsen won the event with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 59 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk beat Nakamura in the final to win the event. Group A was composed of Judit Polgar, Anatoly Karpov, Hikaru Nakamura, Bu Xiangzhi, Ngoc Truongson Nguyen, Romain Edouard, Nadezhda Kosintseva, and Sophie Milliet. (28 games, 8 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk, Pelletier, Le Quang Liem, and others compete in the B group. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A total of 135 GMs, 57 IMs, 47 FMs, and 243 titled players have signed up for the strongest club event of the year. Discussion forum now open. (999 games, 333 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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53 all-female teams have registered for the most prestigious club event of the year. Discussion forum now open. (194 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Kramnik beat out Anand, Carlsen, and Shirov in this four player double round-robin. (12 games, 4 players, 69 discussion pages.)
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The Ukraine took the Gold Medal, Russia team 1 took the silver, and Israel took the bronze on tie-break from Hungary. (2,863 games, 723 players, 87 discussion pages.)
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Russia team 1 took the gold in the women's with a round to spare; China took the silver, and Georgia took the bronze. (2,482 games, 560 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Alexei Shirov took clear first place in this quad against Aronian, Kramnik, and Wang Hao. (12 games, 4 players, 28 discussion pages.)
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Magnus Carlsen agreed to play a game against "The World" via the internet. The world chose among candidate moves proposed by GMs in 60 seconds of web voting. Carlsen won the game in 44 moves. (1 games, 2 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer played in this two-stage rapid tournament. Carlsen beat Anand 1.5-0.5 in the final to win. (16 games, 4 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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Top seed Gata Kamsky won by a half point, 7.5 out of 9. (151 games, 96 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Boris Gelfand beat Peter Leko 4.5 to 3.5 in an 8 game rapid match. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The experienced Gelfand, Svidler, Nielsen, Van Wely and Ljubojevic take on the rising stars of Nakamura, Caruana, Wesley So, Giri and Howell. The Youth side defeated the Experience side by a narrow margin of 26-24. (50 games, 10 players, 28 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dmitry Andreikin took first place on tie-break from Sanan Sjugirov, both finishing with 10/13. (711 games, 120 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seed Anna Muzychuk won with 11/13. (489 games, 81 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Romain Edouard and Laurent Fressinet played off for the title on Saturday after topping the men's event with 8/11. Fressinet took the title by winning the second rapid game. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 8th Gyorgy Marx Memorial stars Almasi, Berkes, Laznicka, Acs, Timman and Robson. Discussion forum now open. (31 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi, Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Zhou Jianchao and Ni Hua compete against Sergei Rublevsky, Vladimir Potkin, Nikita Vitiugov, Artyom Timofeev, and Vladimir Malakhov. Discussion forum now open. (25 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ju Wenjun, Wang Yu, Ding Yixin, Huang Qian, Tan Zhongyi and Huang Qian compete against Natalia Pogonina, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Alina Kashlinskaya, Nadezhda Kosintseva, and Valentina Gunina. Discussion forum now open. (25 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 5th FIDE Women Grand Prix features Koneru, Yifan, Stefanova, Sebag, Chiburdanidze, and others. Discussion forum now open. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seed Michael Adams won with a round to spare, 8.5/11 undefeated. (385 games, 78 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A three way tie between Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana forces them to play tiebreaks on Thursday. (45 games, 10 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ruslan Ponomariov won the tournament by a point against Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Naiditsch, Leko, and Le Quang Liem (winner of the Aeroflot open). (30 games, 6 players, 42 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A tight three-way race saw Sam Shankland beat Zhao and then Robson to take the title of USA Junior Championship. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Krush won this year's USA Women Championship with an incredible 8/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The 45th Capablanca Memorial's elite group included Ivanchuk (who won with 7/10) as well as Nepomniachtchi, Dominguez-Perez, Bruzon, Alekseev, and Short. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Viktor Laznicka took clear first place on 7.5/9 after navigating the tactical fireworks of Loek van Wely. (162 games, 88 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Nana Dzagnidze took clear first place with 9/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen finished with a two point lead over Gelfand, Radjabov, Ponomariov, Nisipeanu, and Wang Yue. (30 games, 6 players, 30 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This tournament incorporates the 5th Open and 19th Adolf Anderssen Memorial. Discussion forum now open. (310 games, 76 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Top seed Jan Smeets secured victory with a three move draw in the final round, a half point ahead of Anish Giri. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Peng Zhaoqin won by a full two points. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The Dutch Computer Chess Federation let the programmers unleash their monsters. Rybka again took clear first with 8/9. (63 games, 14 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi took first place on tie-break from Li Chao. Bu drew his final game and Li beat Yu Yangyi in the final round. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The XXIII Ciudad De Leon saw Boris Gelfand beating Aronian 4-2 after back-to-back blitz victories in the finals. (16 games, 4 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The field has been expanded to 12 players. Discussion forum open now. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Time control is 20m/game + 5s/move. If the match is drawn there are two blitz games of 3 minutes with an increment of 2 seconds per move. If this tie-break ends in a draw (1-1) a final decisive Armageddon blitz game. (47 games, 16 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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The 18th Annual Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament takes place at the classical Hipp Theater in central Malmo. Players: Anish Giri, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Jonny Hector, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Pia Cramling and Nils Grandelius. (15 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Men's and women's events take place alongside each other. Discussion forum now open. (65 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Men's and women's events take place alongside each other. Discussion forum now open. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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With only seconds left on the clock, Kamsky defeated Shulman in the Armageddon-inspired rapid tiebreaks. (111 games, 24 players, 55 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Grand Prix is part of the next World Chess Championship qualification cycle. Discussion forum now open. (91 games, 14 players, 22 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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World champion Viswanathan Anand won the match 6.5 to 5.5, winning with the Black pieces in the final round. (12 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 17th Russian Team Championships saw ShSM-64 of Moscow (Gelfand, Karjakin, Wang Hao, Caruana etc) as clear winners with 16/18 possible match points. (269 games, 76 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The women's event of the Russian Team Championships saw Spb Chess (Cmilyte, Socko, Arakhamia-Grant, Atalik, Bodnaruk, Demina) as winners. (84 games, 38 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A massive 8-way tie at 7/9 saw Eduardo Iturrizaga taking first place on tie-break. (307 games, 113 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Gata Kamsky finished first, beating out Ray Robson, Alexander Stripunsky, Alexander Shabalov, and others. (77 games, 61 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 19th Amber Tournament took place at the Palais de la Mediterranne in France. Ivanchuk and Carlsen shared top honors in the rapid section, a full 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the pack. (66 games, 12 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A blunder in the last round cost Carlsen his queen and his lead, leaving Grischuk as clear first place. (66 games, 12 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi took clear first with 9/11, half a point clear of Baadur Jobava and Artyom Timofeev. Baadur Jobava took the silver medal after a playoff against Artyom Timofeev who took bronze. (2,166 games, 406 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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14 players qualified for the Women's World Championship: Cramling, Cmilyte, Socko, T. Kosintseva, Sebag, Zhukova, Dembo, Stefanova, A. Muzychuk, N. Kosinsteva, M. Muzycduk Kovalevskaya, Ziazulkina, Rajlich. (864 games, 158 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The Schachbundesliga in Germany is the strongest chess league in the world. The first two rounds of the 2009-2010 season is just beginning. Anand, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Shirov, Movsesian, and Vachier are playing. (953 games, 228 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Ivan Sokolov edged out Yury Kozubov, Abhijeet Gupta and Hannes Stefansson on tie-break after all scored 7/9. (465 games, 104 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Veselin Topalov defeated Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Boris Gelfand and Vugar Gashimov with a score of 6.5/9. (30 games, 6 players, 36 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Judit Polgar plays Gregory Kaidanov in a 4 game match in South Carolina. They played the following Sicilians, in order: Sveshnikov, Dragon, Najdorf, and Scheveningen. The loser was the Sicilian Defense itself, as White was victorious in all four rounds, leaving the match tied 2:2. A blitz playoff will determine the winner. (4 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivan Sokolov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Sergey Fedorchuk, Jon Ludwig Hammer, Yuri Drozdovskij, and Eduardas Rozentalis are the star players. (179 games, 113 players, 1 discussion page.)
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This year's Aeroflot open features dozens of grandmasters. Discussion forum now open. (357 games, 80 players, 13 discussion pages.)
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Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev, Le Quang Liem and Ernesto Inarkiev all tied with 7/9; Chernyshov won the tie-break (due to the most wins). (267 games, 148 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Michael Adams won the title after beating Francisco Vallejo Pons in the final of the playoff. (1,060 games, 225 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Magnus Carlsen emerged victorious with 8.5/13 over Anand, Kramnik, Nakamura, Short, Ivanchuk and others. (91 games, 14 players, 131 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Group B includes Wesley So, Anish Giri, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Ni Hua, and others. (91 games, 14 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Group C includes Peng Zhaoqin, Ray Robson, Robin Van Kampen, and others. (91 games, 14 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mateusz Bartel won the event with 7/9 half a point clear of Radoslaw Wojtaszek. (126 games, 28 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ended in a four-way tie between Howell, Hebden, Eduard, and Istratescu all with 7 out of 9. (456 games, 108 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Teams: Russia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Armenia, Israel, USA, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Greece. Russia won the gold, USA won the silver, and India the bronze. (180 games, 59 players, 25 discussion pages.)
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Gata Kamsky defeated Zoltan Almasi on tie-break. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Top seeds include Wojtaszek, McShane, Lysyj, Rozentalis, Popov and Jon Ludvig Hammer. Discussion forum now open. (299 games, 68 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The Central Chess Club in Moscow will be the site for the 2009 Russian Superfinals. Grischuk beat out Svidler, Jakovenko, Alekseev, Tomashevsky, Vitiugov, Riasantsev, Timofeev, Khismatullin, and Sjugirov. (45 games, 10 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk beat out Bodnaruk, Gunina, Zaiatz, Manakova, Romanko, Stepovaia-Dianchenko, and the Kosintseva sisters. Natalia Pogonina withdrew due to medical reasons. (43 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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13 year old Ukrainian Illya Nyzhnyk dominated the Open section with a solid 7.5/9. (271 games, 64 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Jan Timman beat Robin van Kampen in a four game match 2.5-1.5. (4 games, 2 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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These two chess veterans drew an 8-game match during the month of December. (8 games, 2 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A round robin wih Nigel Short, Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Ni Hua, and Vladimir Kramnik. Carlsen edged out Kramnik by 1 point under the special "3 points for a win" scoring system. (28 games, 8 players, 71 discussion pages.)
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This was won handily by the teenage IM Baskaran Adhiban with 10/13. (273 games, 42 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This knockout format features 128 of the world's strongest players and is part of the World Championship Cycle. (490 games, 127 players, 128 discussion pages.)
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Some of the best blitz chess players in the world faced off in Norway. Hikaru Nakamura defeated Magnus Carlsen in the finals. (29 games, 12 players, 13 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen is the world Blitz Chess Champion after defeating Anand and 20 other GMs. (460 games, 22 players, 52 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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One of the strongest tournaments ever, this event included ex-World Champion Kramnik, World Champion Anand, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, and many other eminent GMs. After 9 rounds, Kramnik won with 6 points (+3 -0 =6). (45 games, 10 players, 101 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Maxime Vachier Lagrave is the new World Junior Chess Champion, beating out Sergei Zhigalko on tiebreaks. Both finished with 10.5/13. (412 games, 82 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Swaminathan Soumya is the new World Female Junior Chess Champion, beating out Betul Yildiz and Deysi Cori Tello on tiebreaks. (221 games, 45 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The open tournament was won by Sergey Volkov on tie-break from Zhou Weiqi, Rychagov, Deviatkin and Melkumyan, all finished on 7/9. Most games of the leaders are available now. (554 games, 249 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The young Azerbaijan team (including Radjabov, Gashimov, Mamedyarov, et al.) took the gold. Russia took the silver medal; Ukraine, the bronze. (682 games, 183 players, 34 discussion pages.)
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The Russian women took the gold, Georgia took the silver, and the Ukraine ladies took the bronze. (494 games, 137 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Anna Zatonskih clinches her second consecutive US Women's Championship with a staggering 8.5 of 9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Tiviakov won the main group with 3.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This large Swiss open was won by Stewart Haslinger with 7.5/9. (275 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Roy Robson won with 7 consecutive victories, followed by a draw in the final round. This gives Ray his third GM norm, just in time for his 15th birthday later in the month. (152 games, 34 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen finished with an incredible 8/10 points, thereby pushing his "live rating" over 2800. Carlsen, Topalov, Radjabov, Leko, Jakovenko, and Wang Yue competed. (30 games, 6 players, 75 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alongside the Pearl Spring tournament is this high level women's event. Yuhua Xu won the event with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Economist-SGSEU-1 of Saratov took first place (Alekseev, Eljanov et al.) (1,099 games, 368 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Zoltan Almasi took clear first with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Texas Tech is host to this very strong tournament with an average rating of 2631. Kuzubov won in the playoffs beating Mamedov and Andreikin all at 5.5/10. The B Group saw a three way tie among Finegold, Bhat, and Perelshteyn. Benjamin Finegold finally got his GM title. Daniel Rensch got his IM title. (30 games, 6 players, 24 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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10 players compete in Belgium in this high-calibre contest. Emil Sutovsky won with 7 out of 9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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25 years after their infamous aborted match, Kasparov and Karpov play each other in a set of four rapid games, followed by 8 blitz games. Kasparov won the rapid games 3 to 1. (4 games, 2 players, 37 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kasparov won the blitz games 6 to 2. (8 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A first-class matches to be organized by Universal Event Promotion. Discussion forum now open. One game will be played each day, except for September 23rd, which is a rest day. (6 games, 2 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anish Giri took clear first place with 6/8. There was controversy which resulted in Tiviakov leaving after three rounds. (39 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The winners of the Nanching Pearl Spring, Corus-Wijk aan Zee, Ciudad de Linares and Mtel Masters-Sofia tournaments were due to compete, but last minute replacement for Topalov, Levon Aronian, took first place. (12 games, 4 players, 21 discussion pages.)
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Evgeny Tomashevsky took clear first with 8/11. (308 games, 57 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 2009 Women's World Team Championship took place in China. "China Team One" overtook Poland after beating them in Round 8. (178 games, 50 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Nigel Short are headliners at this open tournament in Calcutta. New games will be uploaded as they become available. (148 games, 69 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Naiditsch wins with 7.5 point against 11 leading grandmasters. (66 games, 12 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This Scheveningen-style match pits 5 experienced GMs against 5 young "rising stars". For the first year, the "Experience Team" won, 27.5 to 22.5. (50 games, 10 players, 21 discussion pages.)
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Some of China's finest players face off against leading Russian grandmasters. Russia emerged victorious in the men's division, 13 to 12. (24 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The women's division of the China vs Russia match; here China won 13.5 to 11.5. (23 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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This rapid event featured eight world champions: Anand, Hug, Karpov, Khalifman, Kramnik, Polgar, Ponomariov and Topalov. Kramnik edged out the competition with 5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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"Vassily Ivanchuk continues to amaze his followers" beating Kasimdzhanov, Akopian, Aronian, Leko, and a bevy of other world-class players. (91 games, 14 players, 77 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The round robin saw Jan Timman take first, by winning 6 out of 9 games. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This Scheveningen-style match between the top UK players and the top Dutch players saw Nigel Short score an enormous 8 out of 10 points, carrying the British team to victory. (50 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won this year's giant ORDIX rapid open. (110 games, 86 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Areshchenko took the title on a tiebreak. We are still trying to gather more games from this event; thank you for your patience. (213 games, 124 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 96th British Championship will be held in Torquay, Devon. (418 games, 76 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship saw Levon Aronian beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the finals. Other events include the Chess960 world championship, the ORDIX rapid open, FiNet Chess960 Open, U14 tournaments, and Levon Aronian's 40 game simul. (12 games, 4 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Erwin L'Ami took first place with 7.5/9 at the "Open Netherlands Championship." (237 games, 86 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Vachier-Lagrave beat out Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Morozevich, Alekseev, and Caruana. (30 games, 6 players, 35 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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New games will be uploaded daily. Discussion forum now open. (832 games, 291 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Radoslaw Wojtaszek achieved first with 6/9. (54 games, 20 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura won this category 18 event after defeating Ponomariov in the tiebreaks. Also playing were Karpov, Granda-Zuniga, Kasimdzhanov, Movsesian, Svidler, and more. (45 games, 10 players, 44 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik wins by a full point, over Leko, Carlsen, Jakovenko, Bacrot, and Naiditsch. (30 games, 6 players, 77 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Evgeny Najer beat Jaan Ehlvest to secure a 1st place tie with Hikaru Nakamura, who had taken two half-point byes on the final day as he jetted off to another tournament. (158 games, 84 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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The 1st annual Big Slick Chess Tournament took place at the Big Slick Poker Club, Purley (London), England. Keith Arkell tied Alexander Cherniaev with 6.5/9. (42 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Rybka, as usual, dominated the field. It finished with +7 -0 =2, a full point and a half ahead of 2nd place Deep Sjeng. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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"Chucky" beats out Radjabov, Shirov, Gelfand, Kamsky, and Nisipeanu compete in this double round robin. (30 games, 6 players, 29 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Leinier Dominguez-Perez wins the "elite group", beating Meier, Khenkin, Savchenko, Bruzon Batista, and Timofeev. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Alexander Motylev won the event with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A rapid knockout tournament, featuring Carlsen, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, and Wang Yue. Magnus Carlsen beat Vassily Ivanchuk 4-3 after the blitz playoff in the final. (17 games, 4 players, 9 discussion pages.)
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Six leading player play 5 rounds for this quick round robin. Nigel Short won with 4.5/5: a 2990 performance rating. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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World Champion Anand defeats Peter Leko 5-3 in this rapid match. (8 games, 2 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ding Liren won the tournament after receiving a forfeit point in the final round, due to the new "no tolerance" policy of arriving late at the board. (66 games, 12 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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12 of the strongest female Chinese players vie for the women's title. Discussion forum now open. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk defeated Navara 5.5 to 2.5 in this rapid match. (8 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Boris Gelfand took clear first place with a 3-1 victory over Peter Svidler in the finals. (44 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Alexey Shirov places first with 6.5/10, beating Topalov, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Wang Yue, and Dominguez-Perez. The event was a double round robin played in a glass pavilion on the square in front of the National Theatre Ivan Vazov. (30 games, 6 players, 46 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Surya Sekhar Ganguly beat out Zhou Weiqi on tiebreaks, both finishing with 8/11 points. Players from 15 countries competed, including 40 GMs, 15 IMs, and 8 FMs. Zhang Xiaowen won the women's event with 9/11. (692 games, 130 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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With 7 out of 9 points, Nakamura is the 2009 US Champion. (107 games, 25 players, 40 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pavel Eljanov won this 6 player double round robin, beating out Movsesian, Sokolov, Wang Hao, Harikrishna, and Predojevic. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The Azerbaijan team (Radjabov, Gashimov, Mamedyarov, and Guseinov) was defeated by "The World" (Anand, Kramnik, Shirov, and Karjakin) at rapid chess (25m) 21.5 to 10.5. (32 games, 9 players, 12 discussion pages.)
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The fourth FIDE Grand Prix Series Tournament is took place in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. Aronian won on 8.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 51 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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There were 6 rapid games over three days, then 10 blitz games on the final day. Akobian edged out Shulman in the rapid games 3.5 to 2.5, but dominated in the blitz event 6 to 2. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tomsk-400 (Jakovenko, Timofeev, Inarkiev, Tiviakov, et al) captured first place in the Premier League. (168 games, 57 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Spartak (Stefanova, the Kosintseva sisters, Lahno, et al) won the women's division. (112 games, 40 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Polytechnik (Kokarev, Maletin, et al) won the second tier. (245 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Darmen Sadvakasov defeated Yury Shulman by drawing with the black pieces in the Armageddon blitz tiebreaker. (179 games, 105 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Tournament was cancelled in what some call a scandal; read kibitzing for more info. (6 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Four way tie among Hedinn Steingrimsson, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Hannes Stefansson, and Mihail Marin, all finishing on 7/9. (488 games, 110 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The 2008/2009 season of Schachbundesliga is now over, and OSC Baden-Baden retained the title. (947 games, 239 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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In the blindfold event, there was a three-way tie for first among Kramnik, Aronian, and Carlsen. The overall winner (rapid and blindfold combined) was Aronian who scored 7/11 in both events. (66 games, 12 players, 79 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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In the rapid section, Anand, Aronian, and Kamsky tied for first place, all with 7/11. (66 games, 12 players, 60 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Evgeny Tomashevsky won the title after winning an enormous playoff of 11 players who all finished on 8/11. (1,653 games, 305 players, 12 discussion pages.)
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Koneru Humpy wins in the final round, breaking a three-way tie and winning the event 8.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yuri Vovk won this large Swiss style open with 7.5/9. We are still missing some games and will upload them when they become available. (338 games, 224 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Veselin Topalov defeated Gata Kamsky 4.5 to 2.5 in an 8 game match to determine the right to play World Champion Anand later in the year. (7 games, 2 players, 99 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bacrot beat Moiseenko on tiebreaks, both with 6.5/9. (338 games, 78 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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David Smerdon took first place with 8/10. (0 games, 0 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Peter Svidler took first after defeating Vadim Milov 2-0 in the rapid tiebreaks. (886 games, 192 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Islamic revolution there was a match between Anatoly Karpov and Ehsan Ghaem Maghami. After a tie in the rapids, Maghami won the event after edging out Karpov in the blitz event. (4 games, 2 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergey Karjakin defeated Leinier Dominguez in the final round to achieve victory with 8/13. (91 games, 14 players, 120 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Fabiano Caruana beat Nigel Short in the final round to win the B group with 8.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 14 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Wesley So placed first with a point to spare, 9.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen, Peter Svidler, Hikaru Nakamura, and Kjetil Lie play in a super rapid tournament. Peter Svidler emerged victorious in the blitz playoffs to emerge triumphant in the final rounds. (18 games, 4 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk defeated Leko 3.5 to 2.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The legendary Hastings tournament finished. Igor Kurnosov finished first with 7.5/9. (443 games, 105 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ni Hua wins by an entire point and half, with 7.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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This invitational GM tournament features Sasikiran, Malakhov, Delchev, Caruana, Vallejo-Pons, Roiz, Nepomniachtchi, and Salgado Lopez. Krishnan Sasikiran won with 5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Radjabov, Javkovenko and Grischuk finished on 8/13. (91 games, 14 players, 26 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Topalov had a commanding performance, winning with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 31 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A swiss open tournament will determine the champion. Boris Avrukh won the title on tiebreaks. (49 games, 26 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Some of America's strongest players compete online, organized geographically. Team "Dallas Destiny" (Zivanic, Kuljasevic, Boskovic, et al) beat "Boston Blitz" (Christiansen, Perelshteyn, Sammour-Hasbun, et al) in the tiebreaks. By individual scores, IM Alex Lenderman from Queens amassed 22.5 points, edging out Miami's Julio Becerra with 20. (251 games, 120 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Loek Van Wely and Bartlomiej Macieja tie for first, beating Yusupov, Tiviakov, Agdestein, and Van Den Doel. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Armenia repeats their success and wins the gold medal. Israel wins the silver medal, and the USA takes the bronze. (3,071 games, 708 players, 197 discussion pages.)
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Perennial powerhouse Georgia broke China's hegemony of the women's division. Ukraine secured the silver medal, and the USA won the bronze. (2,357 games, 537 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Leinier Dominguez-Perez wins with 11.5/15. All games are now online, but some of the game scores are incomplete. (120 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dreev wins clear first with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Viswanathan Anand defends his title with a final score of 6.5 to 4.5. (11 games, 2 players, 443 discussion pages.)
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Club Argentino de Ajedrez sponsored this 10 way round robin invitational. Andres Rodriguez won with 7.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivan Sokolov beat out Smeets, Adly, and Sebag with 5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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URAL Sverdlovskaya (Radjabov, Kamsky, Shirov, Grischuk, Malakhov, Motylev and Dreev) won the event. (1,332 games, 444 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo won the European Club Cup for Women. (251 games, 82 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Nigel Short wins with 9.5 out of 11. (1,139 games, 261 players, 1 discussion page.)
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A three way tie on 7/9 among Svidler, Jakovenko, and Alekseev led to a playoff, in which Svidler emerged victorious with 3/4. (66 games, 12 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The highest rated 10-player international round-robin chess tournament in US history. Four-way tie for 1st place (5.5/10) among Akobian, Onischuk, Harikrishna, and Kritz. Pentala Harikrishna placed highest in the tiebreak protocol. (41 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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Russia's strongest grandmasters face off against China's biggest stars. China won the main event narrowly, 26 to 24. (50 games, 20 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Topalov wins this category 22 monster tournament with 17 points, under the special scoring system where wins are worth 3 points and draws are worth 1. (30 games, 6 players, 106 discussion pages.)
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Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Hou Yifan in the finals to become the 2008 Women's World Chess Champion. (144 games, 53 players, 41 discussion pages.)
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Jan Werle won first place with 8/10. (678 games, 141 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Some very strong players compete in a large swiss style tournament. We will upload new games as they become available. (306 games, 56 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Also known as Youth vs Experience, the youth beat the experience 33.5 to 16.5. Especially notable was Wang Yue finished on 8.5/10. (50 games, 10 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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Ivanchuk wins the blitz tournament (after winning the main event). (297 games, 18 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk wins by a full point finishing on 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 103 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yury Shulman wins with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi wins with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Etienne Bacrot took the title after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the rapid tiebreaker. Sophie Milliet won the French Women's Championship. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Topalov took clear first with 8/9. (36 games, 28 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Sasikiran won with 6.5/9, a clear point ahead of the field. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Levon Aronian places first by half a point, finishing with 8.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 108 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Michael Adams wins with 8/11. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand beats Carlsen in the finals 3-1 to win this four way rapid event. (20 games, 4 players, 17 discussion pages.)
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Nepomniachtchi beat Eljanov on tiebreaks in this rapid chess tournament. (109 games, 80 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Alekseev beat Dominguez-Perez in the playoff. (30 games, 6 players, 73 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Antoaneta Stefanova took clear first with 4.5 out of 7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A round robin among Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Gabriel Sargissian, Ferenc Berkes, Daniel Stellwagen, Alexander Beliavsky and Peter Acs. New games will be uploaded as they become avialable. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Stuart Conquest defeated Keith Arkell in the rapid-chess tiebreaks to become the 2008 British Chess Champion. (124 games, 48 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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A four way tie for first place among Shirov, Rublevsky, Jakovenko, and Gashimov, all finishing with 5.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Arman Pashikian won with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Four way tie for 1st place included Najer, Neji, Ftacnik, and Moiseenko. (210 games, 106 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Peter Leko wins this 8 player round-robin featuring Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Leko, Ivanchuk, Van Wely, Nepomniachtchi, Naiditsch, and Gustafsson. (28 games, 8 players, 52 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergey Karjakin beat Nigel Short 7.5 to 2.5 in a 10 game rapid match in Kiev. (10 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins with 8/11, a full point ahead of 2nd place Ivanchuk. (66 games, 12 players, 53 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Formerly "Yerevan Chess Giants", this rapid time control tournament featuring eight of the world's leading grandmasters. Levon Aronian wins with 8.5/14. (56 games, 8 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Morozevich dominated the field and finished with 7.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Dalibor Stojanovic wins the B-group with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nigel Short clinches first place with a round to spare. (55 games, 11 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk beats Anand, Vallejo Pons, and Shirov. (14 games, 4 players, 3 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen wins the match 5-3. (8 games, 2 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pavel Tregubov wins on tiebreaks over Yuri Drozdovskij, Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov, all with 9/14. (56 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ruben Felgaer beat Fernando Peralta and Diego Valerga on tiebreaks. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Yury Shulman is the new American Chess Champion. (108 games, 24 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anna Zatonskih beats Irina Krush in the tiebreaks to become the new American Women's Champion (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk wins with 8/10 after a bold start of 5 consecutive wins. (30 games, 6 players, 104 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik beats Navara 5.5 to 2.5 in a rapid match. (8 games, 2 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A large swiss tournament dedicated to the memory of Haydar Aliyev. Evgeniy Najer takes clear first with 7.5/9. (213 games, 113 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Magnus Carlsen shared first place on 8/11. (91 games, 14 players, 141 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergei Tiviakov wins with 8.5/11. (1,745 games, 323 players, 8 discussion pages.)
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Kateryna Lahno won the women's event on 8.5/11. (853 games, 157 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Li Ruofan won the this round robin featuring 6 of the world's strongest females. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Topalov won the final beating Francisco Vallejo Pons. (12 games, 4 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ural-Ekaterininburg (Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk, Malakhov, Akopian, Dreev, Motylev) wins with 37.5 points. (396 games, 95 players, 27 discussion pages.)
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Kaidanov wins with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Prodigy Wesley So won the cup with 7/9 points. (249 games, 100 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Michael Adams wins with 5.5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jan Smeets is the new Dutch Champion, by defeating Stellwagen in the last round and finishing with 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Balogh, Naiditsch, Nisipeanu, and Almasi tied with 5.5/10, and Csaba Balogh wins first place on a tiebreak. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Yury Shulman defeats Alexander Ivanov in an Armageddon playoff for the title. (140 games, 85 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Aronian wins handily with 8/11, a point and a half against 2nd place Ivanchuk. (66 games, 12 players, 77 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Four way tie for first, including Kramnik, Topalov, Aronian, and Morozevich. (66 games, 12 players, 52 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sanan Sjugirov and Nikolai Chadaev tie at 8/11 and are now qualified in the World Under 20 Championship. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Yifan Hou wins by a full point. (45 games, 10 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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A three-way tie for first place among Wang Hao, Hannes Stefansson, and Wang Yue, all with 7/9. Rounds 1-5 uploaded now; more to come. (378 games, 91 players, 1 discussion page.)
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand wins with 8.5/14. (56 games, 8 players, 203 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi takes clear first place with 7/9. (290 games, 66 players, 10 discussion pages.)
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Timofeev took sole first place. (164 games, 128 players, 12 discussion pages.)
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Hrvoje Stevic won the event with 8/12. (78 games, 13 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Nakamura defeats Bu Xiangzhi in the tiebreaks to take first place. (972 games, 204 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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A category 20 tournament featuring 14 of the strongest players in the world. Aronian and Carlsen tie for first with 8/13. (91 games, 14 players, 307 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Movsesian wins with 9.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Fabiano Caruana wins with 10/13. (91 games, 14 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Four legendary players compete: Korchnoi, Timman, Ljubojevic, and Portisch. Ljubojevic wins with 4/6. (12 games, 4 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Murray Chandler wins with 9/11. (120 games, 22 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Karen Asrian beats out Minasian Artashes (both with 8/13) on Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaks. (57 games, 13 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Malakhatko and Mamedov tied for first with 7.5/10. (499 games, 103 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Zoltan Almasi cleared first place by a half-point, finishing with 6/10. (45 games, 10 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Morozevich is the new Russian Champion. (66 games, 12 players, 46 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Tatiana Kosintseva beat out Ovod, Korbut, and Tairova on tiebreaks. (66 games, 12 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Francisco Vallejo-Pons beats out 7 other grandmasters in Spain. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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A seven round knockout event featuring 128 of the strongest players in the world. Kamsky defeated Shirov in the finals to claim the cup. (371 games, 127 players, 206 discussion pages.)
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Ivanchuk wins with 25.5/38, beating second place Anand by a full point. (380 games, 20 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik secures his victory with a round to spare, finishing with 6.5/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 50 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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14 year old IM Sanan Sjugirov won this rapid event with 8/11, leading by an entire point. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Topalov wins by a whopping 1.5 point margin at 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The USSR team (Korchnoi, Taimanov, Zaitsev, et al) defeated their old Yugoslavian rivals. (20 games, 20 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Russia wins. (684 games, 191 players, 31 discussion pages.)
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Russia wins. (504 games, 141 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Nakamura beats Kasimdzhanov in the finals to win this annual rapid chess (10 min + 3s/move) knockout. (40 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ivanchuk wins the match in the tiebreaks. (14 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Linex Magic (Shirov, Adams, Sublevsky, Sargissian, Cheparinov, Perez-Candelario) claims the Spanish CECLUB title. (23 games, 25 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Hikaru Nakamura wins with 7/9, a clear point ahead of Dominguez-Perez. (45 games, 10 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi defeats Topalov, Carlsen, Polgar, Karjakin, and Harikrishna, with his eyes closed! (30 games, 6 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Mamedyarov won the event on 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Eltaj Safarli wins with 7/9. (337 games, 77 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ahmed Adly wins with 10/13. (389 games, 78 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Vera Nebolsina wins with 10/13. (258 games, 55 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Linux Magic won the cup. (1,167 games, 389 players, 12 discussion pages.)
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Cercle d'Echecs wins the women's cup. (252 games, 83 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Undefeated "Vishy" Anand finishes with 9/14 and claims the title of World Chess Champion. (56 games, 8 players, 477 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mateusz Bartel, Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia all tied at 6.5/9. (385 games, 86 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Zappa defeats Rybka 5.5 to 4.5. We will post the remaining games shortly. (10 games, 2 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Discuss forum now open. We will post more games as they become available. (357 games, 72 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Movsesian edges out Ponomariov on tiebreaks (both finished 4.5/7). (28 games, 8 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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China beat the UK 28 to 20. (48 games, 16 players, 16 discussion pages.)
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A massive 11-way tie for first place, but Nikita Vitiugov wins on tiebreak criteria. (361 games, 66 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Amon Simutowe won the event with 7.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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China won the match overall 52.5-47.5 coming back to win the men's half with three victories in the final round, and winning the women's event 27-23. (100 games, 20 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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"Rising Stars" beat "Experience" 26.5-23.5 and Karjakin won with 7/10 and earned an invitation to next year's Amber tournament. (50 games, 10 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Jaroslav Olsar wins with 8/9 points, a half point clear of Yuri Meshkov. (336 games, 76 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Anand defeated Aronian in the final. However, Aronian defeated Anand to become the victor of the Chess960 event. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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David Navara beat out Mchedlishvili and Sasikiran on tiebreaks, all with 9.5/11. (114 games, 83 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Vachier-Lagrave beats Tkachiev in the blitz tiebreaks for the title. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Michael Adams wins the tournament by a full point. (66 games, 12 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Moiseenko wins with 7.5/9. You can see his games here. (406 games, 99 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The 94th Championships of The British Isles Organised by the English Chess Federation was won by Jacob Aagaard. (374 games, 69 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Li Chao wins with a stunning 8.5/9 points. (228 games, 140 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Four way tie between FM Migchiel De Jong, IM Fabiano Caruana, IM Ralf Appel, and GM Sergei Tiviakov. (327 games, 177 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen and Onischuk tied for 1st place with 5.5/9, but Carlsen wins the top honors by beating Onischuk in the blitz tiebreakers. (45 games, 10 players, 48 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Five way tie for 1st among Emanuel Berg, Krasenkow, Sargissian, DeFirmian, and Malakhov. (543 games, 225 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Ilincic and Korchnoi tied for 1st with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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10 of the strongest women compete in Krasnoturinsk. Zhu Chen and Zhao Xue tie for 1st place with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This 8 player round robin features some of the strongest female players in the world. Pia Cramling wins with 5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Irina Krush defeated Abrahamyan in round 9 to win the title, finishing with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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10 super GMs compete in Quebec for a $22,000 purse. Ivanchuk wins with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Bu Xiangzhi placed first with 8/10. (361 games, 144 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Ivanchuk wins with 7/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand beats Topalov, Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov to win the annual speed-chess battle in Spain. (12 games, 4 players, 17 discussion pages.)
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Varuzhan Akobian won after beating Stripunsky in the Armageddon tiebreak game. (257 games, 105 players, 15 discussion pages.)
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Rybka won with 10/11. (63 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik wins with 5/7, a full point ahead of the rest. (28 games, 8 players, 62 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Khalifman wins the "King's Tournament" with 7/10. (55 games, 11 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergei Tiviakov wins the two game playoff against Daniel Stellwagen to take the title. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Zhaoqin Peng took the title with an astounding 8/9. (45 games, 10 players, no discussion, crosstable.)
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"Chucky" wins with 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 34 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Roiz wins after edging out Atalik on the tie-breaks. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hikaru Nakamura took clear first place with 5.5/6. Click here to see Nakamura's games. (127 games, 80 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Aronian wins the tiebreaks 4-2 after a double victory in the blitz phase. (80 games, 16 players, 312 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Grischuk wins the match 3.5 to 1.5. (0 games, 0 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kamsky wins the match 3.5 to 0.5. (0 games, 0 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Leko wins the match 3.5 to 0.5. (0 games, 0 players, 10 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Deep Junior defeats Deep Fritz with a final score of 3.5 to 1.5. (6 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk wins by two full points, finishing with 7.5/9. (44 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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With an emphatic 8 wins, 1 draw and no losses, China took the 15 kilogram golden trophy in the first-ever World Women's Team Chess Championship; Russia and Ukraine came in second and third respectively. (180 games, 49 players, 7 discussion pages.)
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Movsesian wins with 6.5/10, a full point ahead of the pack. Finishing +3 -0 =7, he was the only undefeated contestant. (30 games, 6 players, 21 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi beat Mamedov, Negi, and Andriasian on tiebreaks (all finished 7/11). (66 games, 12 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Shabalov wins with 7/9 points to become, once again, the U.S. Champion. (162 games, 36 players, 17 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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In the final round, Topalov defeated Sasikiran to take first place alone with 5.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 151 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Tomsk-400 wins with a perfect 9/9 score. (Team includes Morozevich, Jakovenko, Karjakin, and Kasimdzhanov.) (267 games, 80 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Arkadi Naiditsch takes clear first place with 7.5/9. (241 games, 112 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Radjabov defeats Carlsen in the "Armageddon" tiebreak in this match of speed chess (15 minutes + 3 seconds/move). (5 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Aronian beats Kramnik 4-2 in this match of six rapid games (25+10s/move) in Armenia. (6 games, 2 players, 40 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kramnik wins 4.5 to 3.5. (8 games, 2 players, 21 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Magnus Carlsen wins by a full point and a half. (45 games, 10 players, 12 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivan Cheparinov wins by a full point and a half. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Vladimir Belov beat Boris Grachev in the tiebreaks to place first. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vladislav Tkachiev won the tiebreaks beating out Cheparinov, Jakovenko, and Sutovsky in the final. (2,156 games, 400 players, 16 discussion pages.)
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Tatiana Kosintseva is the new European Women's Champion. (814 games, 150 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Shirov wins this rapid event (G/25) on tiebreaks, beating out Daniel Fridman, Ivan Sokolov and Boris Gelfand all of whom finished with 7.5/9. (84 games, 63 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Gata Kamsky is the winner on speed playoff, beating out Izoria, Ibragimov and Stripunsky (all finished with 7/9). (187 games, 106 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Defending champion Sune Berg Hansen wins the event. (83 games, 24 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Al-Rakib Abdulla with a convining result of 11/13, with only two draws. (91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Kramnik wins the overall prize, mostly due to his stunning 9/11 score in the blindfold event. (66 games, 12 players, 86 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The rapid event of the Amber tournament was won by Viswanathan Anand with 8.5/11, a full two points ahead of the pack. (66 games, 12 players, 92 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Gabriel Sargissian dominated the event, finishing with 6.5/7, a point-and-a-half above the rest. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Dmitry Jakovenko wins the event by a clear point. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Vishy wins with 8.5/14 points. (56 games, 8 players, 288 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Najer and Yemelin shared first place with 7.5/9 from a field of 250 players. (592 games, 231 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Evgeny Alekseev beats some of the world's strongest GMs to take clear first place. (391 games, 88 players, 16 discussion pages.)
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Vladimir Akopian emerges with 7.5/9 from a field of 176 players. (752 games, 176 players, 21 discussion pages.)
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Topalov, Radjabov, and Aronian all finish with 8.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 367 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pavel Eljanov wins with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Krasenkow wins with 10.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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After 6 rounds, Karen Asrian won the event by beating Tigran Kotanjian 2-0 in the playoffs. (68 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Viorel Iordachescu wins with 7/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Leko beats Ivanchuk in the final. (41 games, 16 players, 24 discussion pages.)
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Rybka bested 9 other chess computers with a score of 6.5/7. (28 games, 10 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Morozevich wins with a stunning 6/7. (28 games, 8 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kateryna Lahno defeated Parimarjan Negi in an 18 game match dubbed "The Amity Grandmasters Challenge". (18 games, 2 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Evgeny Alekseev defeated Jakovenko in the rapid tiebreaks to become the 2006 Russian champion. (66 games, 12 players, 8 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Veselin Topalov defeated Judit Polgar in a six game match of blindfold chess with a score of 3.5 to 2.5. (6 games, 2 players, 7 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Loek Van Wely blows away the competition with four wins and one draw. (15 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Ivanchuk wins with 6.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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The World Champion tackled a popular commercial chess program in a 6 game match. The computer won, 4 to 2. (6 games, 2 players, 136 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The main event is a ten player round-robin featuring Aronian, Svidler, Leko, Shirov, Gelfand, Mamedyarov, Carlsen, Morozevich, Grischuk and Ponomariov. Leko, Ponomariov, and Aronian all finish on 5.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 134 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Team "Linex Magic" (Ponomariov, Shirov, etc.) wins. (142 games, 65 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Kasimdzhanov beat Anand in the finals to win the knockout event. (38 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Judit Polgar was edged-out by Mamedyarov on tiebreakers; both finished with 4.5/6 points. (12 games, 4 players, 98 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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16 players compete for 16,000 euros. Teimour Radjabov won the final against Sergey Karjakin. (75 games, 16 players, 40 discussion pages.)
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Kramnik wins the tiebreaks to become the unified World Chess Champion. (16 games, 2 players, 10 discussion pages.)
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Zaven Andriasian is the world U20 champion. (386 games, 78 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Yang Shen is the new U20 female champion. (254 games, 56 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Team Tomsk-400 won the men's event. Also see women's section. (1,071 games, 388 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Team Yerevan wins the women's event. (139 games, 52 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Magnus Carlsen has become the 2006 Norwegian champion after defeating Agdestein in the playoff match. (4 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Eight of the strongest young players in the world compete. Vachier-Lagrave takes top honors. (44 games, 8 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Nigel Short took clear first place with 7.5/10. (408 games, 84 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Ernesto Inarkiev is the 2006 Russian Champion with 6.5/9. (261 games, 58 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Alexander Grischuk defeated Svidler in the playoff to win the title. Not all games are available, sorry. (119 games, 16 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Daniel Gormally wins with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Leko wins the match 4.5 to 3.5. (8 games, 2 players, 5 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Igor Zugic won the event with 7/9. (135 games, 58 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Five old-timers (team "Experience") tackled five youth (team "Rising Stars") in Amsterdam. The "Rising Stars" beat the old guard, 28-22. (50 games, 10 players, 25 discussion pages.)
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Tkachiev defeated Fressinet in a rapid play off for the title. (68 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Kasparov, Karpov, Korchnoi and Judit Polgar participated in this blitz chess tournament. Kasparov and Karpov tie with 4.5/6. (12 games, 4 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sokolov wins the strongest lineup ever for this prestigious event with 9/11. (66 games, 12 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Anand beats Radjabov in the annual rapid match 5 to 3. (8 games, 2 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Rowson beats Parker in the final round to win the title. (341 games, 63 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pavel Eljanov wins the "A" group with 6.5/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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We will post more games as they become available. (284 games, 68 players, no discussion.)
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Svidler and Kramnik tie for first place with 4.5/7 points. (28 games, 8 players, 51 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Pentela Harikrishna is in the lead by a solid point, with 5.5/8. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Morozevich wins with 7.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Cramling wins with 7/10. (30 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Three way tie among Nigel Short, Vadim Malakhatko, Jonny Hector. Hundreds of games have been uploaded; more to come soon. (1,018 games, 256 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Kateryna Lahno won the event by a whole point with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Hellsten wins with an impressive +8 -0 =4. Hermansson withdrew due to illness. (78 games, 13 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Florian Jenni is the new Swiss champion, beating Korchnoi and others with 7/9 points. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Tiviakov, Erenburg, and Nijboer tied for first place with 7/9. (371 games, 86 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Wojtkiewicz took first place on tiebreaks ahead of Varuzhan Akobian, Nikola Mitkov, Merab Gagunashvili and Lubomir Ftacnik all of whom finished on 5/9. (120 games, 79 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Karjakin beat the strong GM field in this rapid tournament. (22 games, 6 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Carlsen blows the last round, which sets up a playoff between Carlsen and Agdestein for the 2nd year in a row. (99 games, 22 players, 9 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Kamsky wins in blitz tiebreaks against Milov. (404 games, 212 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Sergei Shipov wins with 7.5/9. (223 games, 62 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Tiviakov wins with 9/11 points, a point and a half above 2nd place Sokolov. (66 games, 12 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sergei Rublevsky wins the event with 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 26 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Rainer Buhmann wins with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Rapid chess knockout featuring Anand, Bruzon, Topalov, Vallejo. Anand beats Topalov in the finals 2.5-1.5. (16 games, 4 players, 5 discussion pages.)
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Armenia wins the gold medal; China wins silver; and the United States wins the bronze. (3,626 games, 858 players, 176 discussion pages.)
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Ukraine takes the gold; Russia takes the silver; China, bronze. (1,905 games, 399 players, 4 discussion pages.)
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Junior wins with 9/11 points. (93 games, 18 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Boris Spassky defeated Anatoly Karpov in a two game rapid match, 15 minutes + 3 seconds per move. The audience included 300 children. (2 games, 2 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Topalov wins with 6.5/10 followed by Kamsky with 6/10. (30 games, 6 players, 151 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Ivan Popov wins with 8.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Malakhov, Nisipeanu and Carlsen tied with 5.5/10. (30 games, 6 players, 15 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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This all-computer tournament was dominated by Rybka with a chilling 8.5/9 score. (57 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Jan Timman placed first with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 2 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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The top four teams now qualify for the European Club Cup: Ural (Sverdlovsk), TPS (Saransk), Tomsk-400 (Tomsk), Termosteps (Sarama). Also see the women's section. (361 games, 93 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Three way tie for first place among Fedorchuk, Sargissian, and Petrosian (7/9 points each). (311 games, 112 players, 1 discussion page.)
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The four game match was tied, but Carlsen emerged victorious after the blitz tiebreakers. (8 games, 2 players, 13 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Sune Berg Hansen is the 2006 Danish Champion with 6.5/9. Also see the Gladiator Games, which are 25+10s/move and 10+5s/move tiebreakers. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Zdenko Kozul is the new European Champion. (753 games, 138 players, 6 discussion pages.)
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Ekaterina Atalik is the new European Women's Champion. (520 games, 96 players, 2 discussion pages.)
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Topalov wins 3 to 1. (4 games, 2 players, 4 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Enamul Hossain dominated the field with an incredible 12/13 performance. (91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Morozevich dominated the blindfold section with 9.5/11, while Anand won the rapid section with 8/11. Both players tied for best overall standing. Also see the rapid games. (66 games, 12 players, 11 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Krishnan Sasikiran scored clear first with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Shirov wins with 6/9. (45 games, 10 players, 6 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Mikhail Gurevich became the Turkish Champion on his first attempt. (91 games, 14 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Artashes Minasian won by a full point with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Yuhua Xu defeated Galliamova to become the 2006 Women's World Chess Champion. (181 games, 63 players, 30 discussion pages.)
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Five players score 7/9, but the tiebreak system placed Gabriel Sargissian as the winner, ahead of Adly Ahmed, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pentala Harikrishna and Igor Nataf. (435 games, 103 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Alexander Onischuk is the new US Champion after defeating Shulman in the finals. Anna Zatonskih is the new US Women's Champion. (288 games, 64 players, 20 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Levon Aronian wins with 8.5/14 after defeating Peter Leko in the final round. (56 games, 8 players, 120 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Zoltan Almasi took the title by beating Adam Horvath in the final round. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Mateusz Bartel wins by a wide margin with 8.5/12. (78 games, 13 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Moiseenko takes 1st place with 7.5/9. (521 games, 282 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Baadur Jobava beats out Bologan, Sasikiran, and Mamedyarov on tiebreaks, all scoring 6.5/9. (259 games, 89 players, 15 discussion pages.)
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Murray Chandler wins first prize with 8.5/10. (319 games, 135 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Thomas Luther beat out Kunin and Yusupov on tiebreaks with 6.5/9. 46 players competed. (204 games, 46 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ponomariov and Vallejo Pons tied for first with 6.5/9. Ponomariov takes first on tiebreaks. (45 games, 10 players, 23 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Motylev and Carlsen finish with 9/13. (91 games, 14 players, 29 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Suat Atalik finishes on 10.5/13. (91 games, 14 players, 3 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Five players finished on 7/9, but Rozentalis won on tiebreaks. (223 games, 91 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Neverov won the event with 8/10. (339 games, 98 players, 1 discussion page.)
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Ponomariov took clear first with 5/7. (28 games, 8 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Rublevsky is the new Russian Champion. He was the only player to go undefeated, with 7.5/11. (66 games, 12 players, 104 discussion pages, crosstable.)
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Konstantin Landa wins by a clear point, with 7/9. (45 games, 10 players, 1 discussion page, crosstable.)
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Bruzon beats Krasenkow in the final after winning the third playoff game. (44 games, 16 players, 1 discussion page.)
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