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A video recap to Magnus Carlsen's double victory at the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2019.

With 11 World Championship titles (4 in classical chess, 4 in blitz, and 3 in rapid), is Magnus Carlsen the best sportsman of the past decade?
1.d4 player Ju Wenjun has switched to 1.e4 for the match, and we have... a Berlin - Nigel Short is trying to hide his joy! :)
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The second game for the Women's World Chess Championship between Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳 and Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺 ended in a draw after 40 moves.

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“We have a fight”, says Nigel Short about the current position on the board.

The FIDE Vice-President, who is an on-site commentator for the match, made the first ceremonial move in today’s game.
Viktor Korchnoi, pictured in Westzaan (Zaanstad, The Netherlands), on 12th August 1976, shortly after his defection from the Soviet Union.

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“Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.”

🔸 Nigel Short

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Havana, 1962. Smyslov, Najdorf and Pachman, at the first Capablanca memorial.

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Maia Chiburdanidze in 1978, at the start of her long reign as the women's world chess champion (courtesy of Sputnik archives).

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