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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 3
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 3Friday, 13 September 2024 Nice aerial shot by Michal Walusza! Open Round 3 of the Budapest Olympiad saw some contested battles, but the buzz of the round was the world’s top player, Magnus Carlsen, arriving 11 minutes late for his first game. Team Captain Odin Blikra Vea explained…
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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 2
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 2Thursday, 12 September 2024 Open In Round 2 of the Chess Olympiad, we saw more drama as Levon Aronian managed tremendous risks in his game against Zhenyoung Wong of Singapore. Aronian escaped first-round disaster after losing a minor piece. In this game, he was down a…
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2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 1
2024 Chess Olympiad: Round 1Wednesday, 11 September 2024 The 2024 Chess Olympiad has begun! Typically, Round 1 pairings are top teams against those from developing federations. The most common story is about upsets. Every Olympiad, there is usually a case of a player with a 300-400 rating handicap winning or…
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2024 Chess Olympiad (Budapest, Hungary)
Budapest, Hungary is the site of the 2024 Chess Olympiad and the venue is said to be spectacular. The event began on September 11th and will last until the 23rd. This Olympiad marks the 100th year of FIDE’s founding. ChessBase India’s Sagar Shah gave a tour of the BOK Hall…
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Saad Elmi gets 2nd IM norm!
Saad Elmi of Norway earned his 2nd IM norm at the Zadar GM Norm Tournament in Croatia. He ended on an undefeated 6/9, drawing all three GMs in the field. Now at 18, Elmi has collected two IM norms and according to mentor GM Pontus Carlsson, “He just missed the…
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Carlsen wins 2023 FIDE World Cup!
Magnus Carlsen added another accolade to his already storied career by winning the World Cup. He overcame a wonderful performance by Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa. “Pragg” defeated both Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana to qualify for the final and became the youngest player to have made a World Cup final. The 18-year-old…
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2023 FIDE World Cup: Semifinals/Finals
Praggnanandhaa beats Caruana, will play Carlsen in the Final! This World Cup tournament has been one of big upsets, but Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana were headed on a collision course as the two highest seeds from each bracket. That is until one of the Indian prodigies had other ideas.…
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2023 FIDE World Cup: Quarterfinals
Semifinals set… Carlsen-Caruana favorites… Goryachkina faces phenom We are winding down the World Cup and it’s been an exciting ride. Only four players remain in the Open section and the top two players in the world are still in the hunt. In fact, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana and headed…
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2023 FIDE World Cup: Round 5
Carlsen, Caruana through… four Indians make the quarterfinals In the fifth round of the World Cup, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana the two top-rated players on the live list advanced to the quarterfinals. Both are in different brackets and could possibly meet in the final. However, a lot is being…
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2023 FIDE World Cup: Round 4
Favorites ousted (not Carlsen)… Indian prodigies soar There were some shocking outcomes at the 2023 World Cup with both Hikaru Nakamura and Ju Wenjun being eliminated from the competition. Wesley So was also upset by Alexander Sarana ending what seemed to be a tournament where the Filipino-American was off-form. While…
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