The Chess Drum
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Carlsen and Caruana chase Fischer’s Ghost in London
The World Chess Championship will begin tomorrow in Holburn, London featuring World Champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Fabiano Caruana, the #1 and #2 players in the world, respectively. While Carlsen is the favorite and has been the champion for five years, many pundits have given Caruana a fighting chance to…
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2018 Women’s World Chess Championship (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia)
2018 Women’s World Chess Championship(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia) Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Photo by ugra2018.fide.com The Women’s World Chess Championship has begun with 64 players from 28 countries! It started only a week prior to the World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. One may ask why do…
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Carlsen-Caruana match only 11 days away!
Excitement will begin to build up for the World Chess Championship set to begin in Holborn, London on November 9th. While the media blitz has not yet begun, it will be interesting to see how the match is billed. Magnus Carlsen has been the World Champion for five years and…
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Tom Murphy wins Chicago’s 3rd Tate Memorial!
International Master Emory Tate is long gone, but certainly not forgotten. In one of his poems he mentioned the symbolism of the lion and the pride. While Tate’s sons Andrew and Tristan channeled their energy into kickboxing instead of chess, he left behind another pride of admirers. One of them…
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Carlsson blazes trail in New Orleans!
GM Pontus Carlsson has being making moves lately. The moves are not necessarily on the chess board although he recently played in Riga, Latvia. He scored a solid 6/9 including a nice win over Jan-Christian Schroder. Based in the Czech Republic, the Swedish national has been blazing a trail with…
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Congo’s Mashala Kabamwanishi shines at Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is chock full of inspirational stories that become part of the event’s history. The Olympiad in Batumi had more than 180 nations participating so there was no shortage of them. In fact, ChessBase India did the best job in capturing the essence of wide experiences among the…
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Lewis Ncube wins African Chess Presidency!
Lewis Ncube at African CongressPhoto by Africa Chess Media Lewis Ncube, the incumbent, declared to hold his position as President of the African Chess Conferation after two competitors emerged. It appeared that he would have quite a challenge after Tshepo Sitale and Dr. Essoh Essis released very impressive campaign statements.…
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2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #11
2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #11 Friday, 5 October 2018 Open Section Full Results Dint Liren and Ju Wenjun (CHINA) Photo: @davidllada #BatumiChess2018 pic.twitter.com/F32w5ek57f — Batumi Chess Olympiad 2018 (@BatumiChess2018) October 5, 2018 China has won Olympiad gold after beating medal contender Poland in a thrilling last-round…
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2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #10
2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #10Thursday, 4 October 2018 Open Section Full Results China ended a strong run by Poland despite their epic win over the USA the previous round. That result was sure to put the Poles into a position to medal, but their 3-1 drubbing at the hands of…
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2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #8
2018 Chess Olympiad: Round #8Tuesday, 2 October 2018 Open Section Full Results Clutch!! In USA-Azerbaijan, Fabiano Caruana won a thrilling game that appear to be equal, but the trump was that black’s king was more exposed than white’s. This came to bear when Shakhriyar Mamedyarov’s king was being checkmated on…
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