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Daaim ShabazzJanuary 16, 2015
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2015 Tata Steel Masters: Round #5

Round #5 – Thursday, 15 January 2015 Masters Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Loek van Wely, ½-½ Radaslaw Wojtaszek – Fabiano Caruana, 1-0 Ding Liren – Vassily Ivanchuk, ½-½ Wesley So – Hou Yifan, ½-½ Anish Giri – Baddur Jobova, 1-0 Magnus Carlsen – Levon Aronian, 1-0 Ivan Saric – Teimour Radjabov,…
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Daaim ShabazzJanuary 12, 2015
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2015 Tata Steel Masters: Round #3

Round #3 – Monday, 12 January 2015 Masters Ding Liren – Baddur Jobova, 1-0 Vassily Ivanchuk – Loek van Wely, 1-0 Anish Giri – Fabiano Caruana, ½-½ Radaslaw Wojtaszek – Magnus Carlsen, 1-0 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Teimour Radjabov, ½-½ Wesley So – Levon Aronian, 1-0 Ivan Saric – Hou Yifan,…
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Daaim ShabazzJanuary 12, 2015
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2015 Tata Steel Masters: Round #2

Round #2 – Sunday, 11 January 2015 Masters Loek van Wely – Radaslaw Wojtaszek, ½-½ Magnus Carlsen – Wesley So, ½-½ Levon Aronian – Anish Giri, ½-½ Fabiano Caruana – Ivan Saric, 1-0 Hou Yifan – Ding Liren, 0-1 Baddur Jobova – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, ½-½ Teimour Radjabov – Vassily Ivanchuk,…
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Daaim ShabazzJanuary 11, 2015
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2015 Tata Steel Masters: Round #1

Round #1 – Saturday, 10 January 2015 Masters Anish Giri – Magnus Carlsen, ½-½ Ivan Saric – Levon Aronian, ½-½ Teimour Radjabov – Loek van Wely, ½-½ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Hou Yifan, 1-0 Vassily Ivanchuk – Baddur Jobova, 1-0 Ding Liren – Fabiano Caruana, 0-1 Wesley So – Radaslaw Wojtaszek,…
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Daaim ShabazzNovember 19, 2014
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Lupita Nyong’o to star in ‘Queen of Katwe’ film

Mira Nair, a highly-acclaimed, Indian-born director, will be producing a film adaptation of Tim Crothers’ book “The Queen of Katwe“. This book was a gripping story about Phiona Mutesi who hails from one of the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The very vivid account shows how the Ugandan girl from…
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Daaim ShabazzNovember 10, 2014
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WCC2014-2: Anand slips, Carlsen ahead

There was a lot begin made of today’s 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s demise. When game #2 started 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 all the puns started about the Berlin Wall started, but Carlsen played 4.d3 avoiding a wall that has not been dismantled in top level play.…
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Daaim ShabazzNovember 8, 2014
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WCC2014-1: Wild Ride… Soft Landing

The first round of the 2014 World Chess Championship was definitely a bitter fight. Anand must’ve followed the advice of many and tried to steal a point early. In a unexpected Grunfeld, Anand tried to apply central pressure which caused Carlsen to eat up time on the clock. The body…
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Daaim ShabazzOctober 16, 2014
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Wesley So wins 1st Millionaire Open!!

Wesley So wins 1st Millionaire Open and $100,000!! Amy Lee and Maurice Ashley present a triumphant Wesley So with the winner’s check.Photo by Paul Truong. GM Wesley So told The Chess Drum that he was skeptical about the tournament a month ago, but decided to play at the urging of…
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Daaim ShabazzOctober 12, 2014
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Millionaire Chess Open: Day Three

Six-way tie for first in Open… perfect score in under-2000! Everyone wants to be an millionaire… and even a few thousand dollars richer. Aderemi Adekola of Chicago was happy to win his game over Jones Murphy on the top board of the under-2000 section putting him on 6/6. There are…
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Daaim ShabazzOctober 10, 2014
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Millionaire Chess Open: Day One

As the players were milling about in the dining area for breakfast you could tell there was something different about this event. Everyone present seemed to be in a good mood as players from around the U.S. and 41 other countries assembled in Las Vegas for The Millionaire Chess Open.…
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