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2023 World Chess Championship: Game 3
2023 World Chess Championship Astana, Kazakhstan (April 7th-May 1st) Game 3: Ding regain composure with comfortable draw Match Score: 2-1 Official Site: https://worldchampionship.fide.com/ 2023 World Chess Championship: Game 3Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Ding appears more comfortable, seems upbeat after draw Ding Liren at the Press Conference after Game 3Photo…
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2023 World Chess Championship: Game 2
2023 World Chess Championship Astana, Kazakhstan (April 7th-May 1st) Game 2: Nepomniachtchi pulls ahead with convincing win Match Score: 1½-½ Official Site: https://worldchampionship.fide.com/ 2023 World Chess Championship: Game 2Monday, 10 April 2023 Ding gives lackluster performance, loses badly Game 2 of the World Chess Championship raised questions about the…
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2023 World Chess Championship: Game 1
2023 World Chess Championship Astana, Kazakhstan (April 7th-May 1st) Game 1: Tense battle ends quietly Match Score: ½-½ Official Site: https://worldchampionship.fide.com/ 2023 World Chess Championship: Game 1Sunday, 9 April 2023 Nepo presses, but Ding slips away Game 1 of the 2023 World Chess Championship starts off with a Delayed…
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2023 World Chess Championship (Astana, Kazakhstan)
2023 World Chess Championship Astana, Kazakhstan (April 7th-May 1st) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 pts. Ding Liren ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 7 Nepomniachtchi ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0…
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Chess Championship weeks away in Kazakhstan
In three weeks, the 2023 World Chess Championship will begin in Astana, Kazakhstan with Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi facing off against China Ding Liren. The match will be the beginning of a new era, one that saw Magnus Carlsen hold the title for ten years after wresting it away from (2013)…
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Kassa Korley featured in Amazon’s “Mind Games”
The Chess Drum had a conversation with IM Kassa Korley about his recent activities. He talked about his appearance in the recent premiere of “Mind Games,” a documentary peering into the minds of gamesmen in four disciplines: chess, mahjong, memory, and e-sports. Chess has often been the subject of many…
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Saad Elmi, Next Star in Norway?
Sixteen-year-old Saad Abobaker Elmi recently scored 7/11 in the World Youth Chess Championships in Romania after winning the Nordic Youth Championships. Of Somalian ancestry, his parents immigrated to Oslo, Norway where he took up chess at an early age. He recently came in second in the Norway Junior Championships and…
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Kassa Korley seeking 3rd GM Norm
IM Kassa Korley preparing for the Round 9 game against GM Tiger Hillarp Persson.Photo by Dansk Skak Union. Kassa Korley has been fiercely competing in norm tournaments in an attempt to earn his 3rd and final Grandmaster norm. The New York City (Harlem) native created a stir while earning his…
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Carlsson blitzes field in two tourneys!
Grandmaster Pontus Carlsson took his blitz skills to Czech Republic and Slovakia and won both events by prodigious scores. Not originally known as a “blitz specialist,” the Swedish national has competed at the highest levels at the World Rapid and Blitz. In 2018, he scored 8/15 (rapid) and 10.5/21 (blitz)…
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Nepomniachtchi wins Candidates… Carlsen undecided on rematch
Ian Nepomniachtchi won the Candidates Tournament yesterday ending on an undefeated 9.5/14. In fact, he avoided real trouble (for the most part) and his +5 showed a consistent level. Magnus Carlsen spent a few days in Madrid and met with FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich and Director-General GM Emil Sutovsky. They…
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