The #iomchess r7 pairings are out and we'll see these top clashes on Thursday:

Grischuk (4½) vs. Caruana (5)
Aronian (4½) vs. Wang Hao (5)
Alekseenko (4½) vs. Carlsen (4½)
Anton (4½) vs. Vitiugov (4½)
Yu Yangyi (4) vs. Maghsoodloo (4½)

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-grand-swiss-2019/7/1/1

Tournament leader and world #2 Fabiano Caruana analyzes his fantastic win over Russian star Vladimir Fedoseev in round six.

Caruana is the sole leader with 5/6.

Overnight joint leader, Parham Maghsoodloo also joins in and shares his inputs.
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The World Champion Magnus Carlsen won a very fine game today against Alexei Shirov.

Yesterday, Magnus Carlsen said it's not too late to "catch fire" and today he delivered a masterful middlegame sequence starting with 22.Qf2 and which ended with him nonchalantly dismissing 28.Qh4 for the more prosaic 28.c3.

Magnus Carlsen explains Alexei Shirov's resignation.

🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Kevlishvili,Robby (2451)
⚫️Andriasian,Z (2603)
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32...Qc6+! [Black is a pawn up and his two connected passed pawn in the center are very strong, so he decides to exchange the queens.]

33.Kb1 Qe4+ 34.Rgd3 Qxe1! 35.Rxe1 Rc7 [35...Ra7!? 36.Rc1 Nd7 △Nc5 37.Bd5 Nc5 38.Rf3 b3 39.f6+ gxf6 40.Rcf1 Nd7–+ △R×a4]

36.Rg3 Nd7 [△Nc5]

37.g5 hxg5 38.Rxg5 Nc5! 39.Bd5 Kf6 40.Reg1 Rg8–+ [¹40...Nxa4! 41.Rxg7 Nb6 42.Bb3 Nc4 43.Bxc4 Rxc4 44.Rh7 e4–+]

12-year-old Vishy Anand makes his first appearance in the newspapers! Venkatachalam Kameswaran wrote this report titled 'A Lightning Kid'. The title became so famous that he is still known around the world by that moniker! Read more:

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

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Footage of the USSR team from the 1972 Skopje chess olympiad.

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