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Carlsen, Caruana and MVL maintain Sinquefield Cup lead after 3 rounds
Round 3 Anand, Viswanathan – Carlsen, Magnus ½-½ Caruana, Fabiano – Nepomniachtchi, Ian ½-½ Karjakin, Sergey – Aronian, Levon ½-½ So, Wesley – Nakamura, Hikaru ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime – Svidler, Peter ½-½ Standings after 3 rounds 1. Carlsen, Magnus...
GMs McShane and Emms lead British Championship after 7 rounds
Standings after 7 rounds (top 40) http://chess-results.com/tnr293939.aspx Rk. SNo Name Typ sex Rtg Club/City Pts. 1 3 GM Mcshane Luke J 2644 None 6,0 8 GM Emms John M S50 2468 Wood Green 6,0 3 2 GM Jones Gawain...
GMs Vladimir Onischuk & Ovsejevitsch lead Dresden Open after 7 rounds
Standings after 7 rounds (top 30) http://chess-results.com/tnr292949.aspx Rk. SNo Name sex FED RtgI RtgN Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 1 1 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2610 0 6,0 32,0 204,0 2 2 GM Ovsejevitsch Sergei UKR 2602 2582 SK Gau-Algesheim...
Bindrich & Buhmann maintains German Masters lead after 5 rounds
Round 5 results Bindrich, Falko Buhmann, Rainer ½-½ Huschenbeth, Niclas Bluebaum, Matthias 1-0 Meier, Georg Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 Svane, Rasmus Heimann, Andreas 1-0 Standings after 5 rounds Rk. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...
World Team Crushed Team USA 25.5 – 14.5 at Match of the Millennials
Under 17 Rk Team 1 2 Rd BP MP 1 The World x 19 8 19 11 2 USA 13 x 8 13 5 Under 14 Rk Team 1 2 Rd BP MP 1 The World x 11½ 4...
Hou Yifan wins Biel while Harikrishna collapsed in final round
Round 9 results Harikrishna, P. – Bacrot, Etienne 0-1 Hou, Yifan – Georgiadis, Nico 1-0 Leko, Peter – Morozevich, Alexander 1-0 Navara, David – Vaganian, Rafael A 1-0 Studer, Noel – Ponomariov, Ruslan 0-1 Final standings 1. Hou, Yifan...