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Drum Majors
2016 Millionaire Chess Open: Day Three
Things are tightening as we go into Millionaire Monday. The Open Section was a bloodletting with a number of decisive games. There is currently a seven-way tie for first with GMs Baskaran Adhiban (IND), Rauf Mamedov (AZE), Jeffery Xiong (USA), Gawain Jones (ENG), Emilio Cordova (PER), Dariusz Swiercz (POL) and…
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Drum Majors
2016 Millionaire Chess Open: Day Two
The good news is that Amy Lee had successful surgery and was released from the hospital. Her Facebook update showed that she received an outpouring of support and love and the tournament hall will be glad to see her at the beginning of the 5th round. Favorites are still holding…
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Drum Majors
2016 Millionaire Chess Open: Day One
MC3 is underway as 400 entrants began the festivities at Harrah’s Resort at Atlantic City. This edition of Millionaire Chess Open had all the familiar themes from the previous two editions… the purple accents, beautiful facility and people dressed to impressed. There was one thing missing from the hall ……
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Drum Majors
2016 Millionaire Chess Open (Atlantic City, NJ)
Millionaire Chess #3 is finally here. More than 400 players have registered for the latest edition in another premier tournament. As we move toward the end of 2016, the chess community has had a big year and looks to close on a high note. Maurice Ashley officially opens the latest…
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Africa
Queen of Katwe: A Chess Review
At the 42nd Olympiad last month 1,583 players from around the world assembled in Baku, Azerbaijan to compete in the marquee tournament of they year. Players donned their colors and beautiful cultural garments bringing with them the history and pride of their chess communities. At the Olympiad there are so…
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Tournaments
Post-Olympiad: Balance of Power shifts
The Olympiad ended less two weeks ago with the USA being crowned the champions for the next two years. The teams was among the favorites which included top seeded Russia, host Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, Netherlands and defending champion, China. With Armenia absent, this site predicted USA, China and Azerbaijan. However,…
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Media Stories
The End of Millionaire Chess?
GM Maurice Ashley has had an eventful year with the Grand Chess Tour (U.S., France, Belgium), the Millionaire Chess African tour (Kenya, Madagascar and South Africa) and the Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan. From his posts on Facebook it was clear that the Brooklyn-based Grandmaster had developed a new vision.…
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Azerbaijan
The Anatomy of USA Gold at ’16 Chess Olympiad
Heading into the Baku Olympiad, there was heightened anticipation of how the USA would do given the two new additions on the team. Out were Gata Kamsky and Alexander Onischuk and in were Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So. These were very favorable replacements of two players who had served the…
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Media Stories
2016 Chess Olympiad: Round #11
2016 Chess Olympiad: Round #11 Tuesday, 13 September 2016 Open Section USA 2½-1½ Canada Ukraine 3½-½ Ukraine Russia 3-1 Italy Turkmenistan 1-3 Azerbaijan 1 India 2-2 Norway Full Results Finally… the USA can call themselves Olympic champions in chess for the first time in 40 years! Led by Fabiano Caruana…
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Azerbaijan
2016 Chess Olympiad: Round #10
2016 Chess Olympiad: Round #10Monday, 12 September 2016 Open Section Georgia 1½-2½ USA Czech Republic 1-3 Ukraine India 2-2 Russia England 2½-1½ Azerbaijan 1 Latvia 1-3 Canada Full Results USA and Ukraine win… tied doing into last round.Tiebreak advantage to Americans. Sam Shankland’s gold medal performance in Tromso Olympiad was…
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