2018 Grenke Chess Classic | Round 3 Standings

🔹 GRENKE Chess Classic 2018- Round 3
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🔹 Magnus Carlsen
🔹 Norwegian Chess Grandmaster

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#Magnus_Carlsen

🔹 Magnus Carlsen
🔹 Norwegian Chess Grandmaster

♦️ Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Carlsen earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years and 148 days.

Full name: Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
Country: Norway
Born: 30 November 1990 (age 28)
Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway
Title: Grandmaster (2004)
World Champion: 2013–present
FIDE rating: 2843 (April 2018)
Peak rating: 2882 (May 2014)
Ranking: No. 1 (March 2018)
Peak ranking: No. 1 (January 2010)

♦️ Carlsen is the 16th undisputed World Champion. He won the crown from Viswanathan Anand in November 2013 and successfully defended it in a return contest with the former title holder in November 2014. In November 2016, he retained his crown when he defeated the Challenger, Sergey Karjakin, in the rapid game tiebreaker after the 12-game classical match was tied.
♦️Carlsen has been the world's top ranked player since January 2010, apart from six months between November 2010 and June 2011 when he was #2, and possesses the highest standard FIDE rating ever posted, as well as the highest ever live rating. In January 2016, he became the first person to be the world #1 in standard, rapid and blitz chess.

♦️ Last game of Carlsen in Grenke Classic 2018 , Round 2 against Yifan Hou👇🏼
🔹 Magnus Carlsen vs Yifan Hou
🔹 GRENKE Chess Classic (2018), Karlsruhe GER, rd 2, Apr-01
🔹 Bishop's Opening (C24)

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🔹 Magnus Carlsen - Yifan Hou , GRENKE Chess Classic (2018)
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🔹 A informative endgame by Capablanca
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🔸 Capablanca - Tartakower, New York 1924 round6
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♦️ Unity Chess Open Grand Prix Tournament
♦️ Saturday, May 19th

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▪️ Gerald Abrahams
▪️ Chess Master and Author

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▪️ Gerald Abrahams
▪️ Chess Master and Author

♦️ Gerald Abrahams was British lawyer (barrister), chess master and chess author.
He also was a very strong amateur who in the 1930's was playing master-class chess.

🔹 Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
🔹 Died: March 15, 1980

♦️ Abrahams at the Nottingham Major Open 1936 finished 3rd= with Karel Opocensky .
His eight chess books include Teach Yourself Chess (1948), The Chess Mind (1952), Handbook of Chess (1960), Technique in Chess (1961), Test Your Chess (1963), Pan Book of Chess (1966), Not Only Chess (1974), and Brilliancies in Chess (1977).
The Pan Book of Chess is a revised edition of his Handbook of Chess. It was still in print into the early 1980"s.
He introduced the Abrahams variation (also called the Noteboom variation) of the Queen’s Gambit Declined Semi-Slav Defense:
(1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bb4 6.e3 b5 7.Bd2 a5),
in 1925 known as the Abrahams-Noteboom variation.
He played in the Oxford vs Cambridge University match in 1926, 1927, and 1928.
In 1933 he finished in 3rd place in the British Championship.
In 1946, he defeated Viaschelav Ragozin (who later became the second World Correspondence Champion) in the Anglo-Soviet radio match (board 10), winning one game and drawing one game.

♦️ A memorable game by Abrahams👇🏼
🔸 Arnold Denker vs Gerald Abrahams
🔸 London B (1946), London ENG, rd 11, Jan-25
🔸 Queen Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation (D02)

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🔹 Arnold Denker - Gerald Abrahams, London B (1946)
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Caruana Wins, Now 3-Way Tie Atop Grenke.

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Video Impressions | Round 4 | GRENKE Chess Classic.

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