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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#24

Yes, I agree with you. That's why I tried it almost every day to post some game or to share some thoughts here. Today's rapid tournament was very interesting. In the first round, Magnus used the Benko…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#22

Fabiano Caruana - Levon Aronian: 1:0 http://en.lichess.org/9aINxWI4 Very carefully played by Caruana yesterday, he showed he has the potential for the future. NF4 is excellent technique: playing for t…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#20

It seems that today's win is actually a new world record of Magnus Carlsen which is about 2900! He scored 7/8 points so far with the performance of at least about 3000! Kasparov, Fischer, Tal, Petrosy…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#19

I love chess, but chess is really a brutal game! Hikaru Nakamura - Magnus Carlsen: 0:1 http://en.lichess.org/analyse/8rzai7e4


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#13

Exciting tournament so far, with a lot of fight.. In the second round, Carlsen admitted he "tried to be smart in the opening. That didn't work." adding later that "Aronian is in top form. You can noti…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#9

I hope so. It would be great for the tournament. He didn't have the best of the opening against Fabiano Caruana but somehow eventually did get a small advantage into the ending. Although it was a very…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#7

http://new.livestream.com/chess24/events/2727830/videos/40906136 Very interesting opening choice by Magnus.. And in the end, very dangerous. He uses a kind of Reversed Budapest Gambit against Vishy An…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#5

Yes, of course you can. But rounds of classical chess starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 30, 15:00 Round 1). Blitz tournament was played today just to determine the colors for the Classical tourname…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#3

:) But Magnus did not play tournaments for a while, maybe it could be a problem.. Also, Aronian has just finished the tournament with a great performance.. I wonder what he can do. It will be very int…


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General Chess Discussion - «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» — The strongest tournament in chess history to date#1

On Wednesday, 29 of January 2014, the «Zurich Chess Challenge 2014» will commence at the Hotel Savoy. With six participants it is the first tournament in the history of chess to reach category 23 with…


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