After 13 rounds: 1-2 Karjakin, Caruana 7.5 /13 3. Anand 7.0 4-7. Giri, Nakamura, Aronian, Svidler 6.5 8. Topalov 4.0 1-2. Caruana, Fabiano gm USA 2794 * * ½ . ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1...
Anand loses, Karjakin wins to get back to the top
Nakamura 1-0 Anand 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bb4 5. Nd5 e4 6. Nh4 O-O 7. Bg2 d6 8. a3 Bc5 9. O-O Re8 10. e3 g5 11. b4 Bb6 12. Bb2 Nxd5...
The Tiger Roared Again in Moscow
After beating Aronian in the 9th round, Anand is back in a tie for the lead with just 5 games left! Standings after 9 rounds 1-2. Karjakin, Sergey gm RUS 2760 M * 1 . ½ . ½ ....
Anand defeated Aronian, back in the lead with Karjakin
Anand – Aronian (1-0) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O d6 5. d3 Nf6 6. c3 a6 7. a4 Ba7 8. Na3 Ne7 9. Nc2 Ng6 10. Be3 O-O 11. Bxa7 Rxa7 12. Ne3...
Aronian beats Nakamura, leads Candidates Tournament with Karjakin
Round 1 (March 11, 2016) Anand – Topalov 1-0 Giri – Aronian ½-½ Karjakin- Svidler ½-½ Nakamura – Caruana ½-½ Round 2 (March 12, 2016) Aronian – Anand ½-½ Caruana – Giri ½-½ Karjakin – Nakamura 1-0 Svidler – Topalov...
Sergey Karjakin – Tata Steel 2016 Player Preview
Tata Steel 2016 is one of the strongest tournaments in 2016. The Masters bracket of the tournament features 14 of the most renowned chess players today. Each day before the tournament, Chessdom brings you a pre-tournament summary for one...
Karjakin leads World Rapid Championship after day 1
Full standings: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr190460.aspx Standings after 5 rounds Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 5 GM Karjakin Sergey RUS 2805 4,5 2676 13,5 0,0 2 108 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2534 4,0 2772 15,0 0,0 3...
Heartbreaking loss for Eljanov with victory in sight
Sergey Karjakin and Pavel Eljanov returned today to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to decide the FIDE World Cup finalist and Candidates Tournament qualifier. After the games with the classical time control the result...
And then there are just 2 in Baku
Name G1 G2 R1 R2 R1 R2 B1 B2 SD Total Peter Svidler (RUS) 1 1/2 1.5 Anish Giri (NED) 0 1/2 0.5 Pavel Eljanov (UKR) 1/2 1/2 1 0 0 1/2 2.5 Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 1/2 1/2 0...
Sergey Karjakin opens chess school in Moscow
A chess school by one of the world’s leading Grandmasters, Sergey Karjakin, was inaugurated at the ceremony in the conference hall of the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). The ceremony was attended by the officials,...