Leaders after 8 rounds Rk. SNo Name Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 1 14 GM Bukavshin Ivan 2647 Самарская область 6.0 36.0 32.5 4.0 0.0 2 8 GM Artemiev Vladislav 2660 Омская область 6.0 35.5 32.0 4.0...
IM Guseva leads Russian Women’s Higher League after 8
Leaders after 8 rounds Rk. SNo Name Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 1 5 IM Guseva Marina 2410 Ставропольский край 6.5 35.5 33.0 5.0 0.0 2 4 IM Savina Anastasia 2422 Москва 6.0 42.5 38.0 5.0 0.0...
Nisipeanu leads Dortmund after 3
Round 3 results GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dietervs GM Hou, Yifan [1/2-1/2] GM Kramnik, Vladimir vsGM Nepomniachtchi, Ian [1-0] GM So, Wesley vs GM Naiditsch, Arkadij [0-1] GM Meier, Georg vs GM Caruana, Fabiano [0-1]
Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth
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Rating Crash for Magnus
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Serving chess as a Brain Booster
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Children’s Day held at Russian Higher League
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FIDE Chess For Girls Vienna – World Strongest All-Girl’s Invitational
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GM Krasimir Rusev winner of Visma GM Tournament 2015
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Hungarian Granny Breaks Chess Record
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