All posts tagged "classic"
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Chess News
Nakamura wins Grand Chess Tour Final with dramatic last-round blitz victory
American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura defeated Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the London Chess Classic and Grand Chess Tour Final by the super-slim margin...
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Vachier-Lagrave & Nakamura draw game 2, setting up Rapid and Blitz showdown
Accurate defensive play and good endgame technique once again featured in the second Classical Game of the London Chess Classic Final, with...
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Vachier-Lagrave & Nakamura tie game 1 of Final
• France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and American Hikaru Nakamura split the honours in a keenly contested Main Line Grunfeld in Game 1 of...
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Caruana narrowly misses #1 spot
• World Championship challenger Fabiano Caruana is held to a draw by Hikaru Nakamura in the first semi-final game of the London...
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London Chess Classic 2018
Fans eager for more fabulous top-class chess after the World Championship in London need look no further than the London Chess Classic,...
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Aleksey Dreev convincing in Saint Louis
The 2018 Fall Chess Classic was held from 10-18th October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. There were two 10-player round robins...
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Fabiano Caruana wins London Chess Classic
The overall winner of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour was none other than World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who won a clutch game...
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London Chess Classic – Round 8
Round eight of the London Chess Classic started slowly with three early draws but then took a dramatic turn of events that...
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London Chess Classic – Round 5
The day before the rest day saw a lot of action in London Chess Classic. Once again, only Fabiano Caruana emerged victorious...
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London Chess Classic – Round 4
After four rounds, there is finally a clear leader! Fabiano Caruana spilled first blood by defeating Sergey Karjakin in a complicated Sicilian....