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2024 World Chess Championship: Game 3
2024 World Chess Championship: Game 3Wednesday, 26 November 2024 Gukesh breaks through… evens the score! Dommaraju Gukesh won Game 3 of the World Championship match with an impressive win over Ding Liren. This game rode on a razor’s edge when Ding was close to stealing the initiative. The game went…
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2024 World Chess Championship: Game 2
2024 World Chess Championship: Game 2Tuesday, 26 November 2024 Tense draw… excitement ratcheting up Game 2 of the World Chess Championship ended peacefully after a rousing start of the match. After Ding Liren won the first game of the match, many wondered if they had been “snookered.” Ding kept sounding…
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2024 World Chess Championship: Game 1
2024 World Chess Championship: Game 1Monday, 25 November 2024 Ding Liren wins the first game, quiets naysayers The World Chess Championship match has begun! Prior to the match, most everyone, including top Grandmasters, picked Dommaraju Gukesh as the favorite over Ding Liren despite his lack of match experience. They predicated…
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2024 World Chess Championship (Singapore City)
2024 World Chess Championship Singapore (November 25th – December 13th) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 pts. Ding Liren 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 6½ Gukesh 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½…
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Drum beats in Singapore-Philippines!
There are interesting stories to be found all over the chess world. For two weeks, I was part of CIBER Faculty Development Tour of southeast Asia designed for faculty from the U.S. to understand the intricacies of the political, economic and social environment of the region. It is funded by…
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