The 2019 Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz the first Grand Chess Tour event ever to be held in Asia. November 22 – 26, 2019 at the National Library of India, Kolkata, India. 10 Player Round Robin with a prize fund of 150,000.. Magnus Carlsen on top of the… Continue reading
GCT Cote d’Ivoire Rapids /Rd 4-6 Day 2 of Rapids Carlsen leads by 2 points with 10/12. Back to back victories.. In the 4th round he defeated Karjakin, then MVL in the 5th.. Round 6 draws with Veselin Topalov .. Rd5 Carslen -Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3… Continue reading
Levon Aronian Aronian won two rapids games off the cuff from Ling and nets the World Cup 2017 Championship. [Event “FIDE World Cup 2017 / Finals / Playoff”] [Site “?”] [Date “2017.09.27”] [Round “1”] [White “Aronian, Levon”] [Black “Ding, Liren”] [Result “1-0”] [PlyCount “59”] [EventDate “2017.09.03”]… Continue reading
All Games Drawn. It is now into tiebreaks. [Event “FIDE World Cup 2017 / Finals”] [Site “?”] [Date “2017.09.26”] [Round “4”] [White “Ding, Liren “] [Black “Aronian, Levon”] [Result “1/2-1/2”] [PlyCount “103”] [EventDate “2017.09.03”] [SourceDate “2017.09.26”] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3… Continue reading
Game 3 Another Draw [Event “FIDE World Cup 2017 / Finals”] [Site “?”] [Date “2017.09.25”] [Round “3”] [White “Aronian, Levon”] [Black “Ding, Liren”] [Result “1/2-1/2”] [PlyCount “61”] [EventDate “2017.09.03”] [SourceDate “2017.09.25”] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6. Qxc4… Continue reading
Only One Game With The Two Finalists Levon Aronian (White) on the Right and Liren Ding (Black) on the Left Game Drawn [Event “FIDE World Cup 2017 / Finals”] [Site “?”] [Date “2017.09.23”] [Round “1”] [White “Aronian, Levon”] [Black “Ding, Liren”] [Result “1/2-1/2”] [PlyCount “70”] [EventDate “2017.09.03”] [SourceDate… Continue reading
