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Eight players advance to Round 4 of FIDE World Cup. 8 matches to be decided on tie-break.

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http://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/eight_players_advance_to_round_4_of_fide_world_cup/

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Eight Players Advance to Round 4 of FIDE World Cup

The return games of the Third Round of FIDE World Cup were played on September 17. None of the players who had lost in the first game managed to level the score today. The tournament’s sensation Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) defeated the higher-rated Pentala…

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Eight players advanced to the Fourth Round of FIDE World Cup - FIDE World cup 2019

No one of the 7 players who needed a win today managed to strike back at #FIDEWorldCup.

Alekseenko 🇷🇺, Grischuk 🇷🇺, So 🇺🇸, Vitiugov 🇷🇺, Duda 🇵🇱, Mamedyarov 🇦🇿, Radjabov 🇦🇿, and Aronian 🇦🇲(who won today) advance to 1/8 final.

https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/news/340/

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Pairings - FIDE World cup 2019

Third round, tie-break

https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/results/pairings/

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Forwarded from never lose hope

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Interview with Levon Aronian | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R3, G2 |

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Forwarded from never lose hope

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Interview with Kirill Alekseenko | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R3, G2 |

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Forwarded from never lose hope

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Interview with Wesley So | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R3, G2 |

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FIDE World Cup: He who hits first, hits twice

Half the matches of the round of 32 at the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk already have a winner, while the remaining eight encounters will be decided on tiebreaks. None of the players that lost the first game of the round managed to bounce back, and only…

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A masterclass on controlling open files and dark squares from Alexander Grischuk 👨‍🎓

Grischuk, Alexander - Xu, Xiangyu

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FIDE World Cup 2019 round 3-2

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Olimpiu G. Urcan: As he has proven many times, Levon Aronian does not believe in the principle that the threat of wearing a bright-colored shirt is stronger than the execution.

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This piece of fine defense from Peter Svidler against Dieter Nisipeanu illustrates how difficult is to beat a world-class player.

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

The expression is used to convey the idea that someone’s work and achievements were only possible thanks to the predecessors they build upon, and this is unquestionably true of Fat Fritz. You may think you know when or where the tale starts, but what if we…

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"The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”

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The History Of Computer Chess: Bobby Fischer vs The Machine

How did Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest to ever play the game, handle a match against an early chess computer? IM Daniel Rensch shows you an important game in the history of computer chess.

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The good old friends Fischer and Evans playing chess in a pool.

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Nona Gaprindashvili(R) playing Chess with Mikhail Tal in train.

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Round 3 of FIDE World Cup finishes in Khanty-Mansiysk. 5 Russian players advanced to the next round.
A dramatic day of tiebreaks came to an end at #FIDEWorldCup in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Ding 🇨🇳, Domínguez 🇺🇸, Nepomniachtchi 🇷🇺, Yu 🇨🇳, Xiong 🇺🇸, Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷, Svidler 🇷🇺, Le 🇻🇳 advanced to the 1/8 final.

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