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Caruana keeps main rival at bay in FIDE Candidates Tournament
In the other match today, Caruana's fellow American Wesley So drew with Ding Liren of China. The event, due to last until March 28, is being contested as a double round-robin with each player playing 14 games, seven with white pieces and seven with black. A top prize of ?95,000 ($117,000/?85,000) ...
Candidates chess: Caruana misses win, stays in lead
Caruana's 67-move deadlock raised his tally to six points and kept him half-point ahead of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who drew with Levon Aronian. Five rounds remain. Action will resume on Thursday after a day's rest. Kramnik, having scored 2.5 points from the first three rounds, has managed just one ...
Caruana misses chances to beat Ding and extend his Candidates lead
Fabiano Caruana remains in the lead of the FIDE Candidates tournament in Berlin after 9 of the 14 rounds. Caruana pressed for a very long time against Ding Liren in a very tricky endgame, there were wins for him but it was all very difficult for humans and in the end Ding kept his unbeaten (and un ...
Fabiano Caruana vs Ding Liren, Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament Round 9
Sergey Karjakin vs Vladimir Kramnik, Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament Round 9 (Analysis: GM Peter Svidler (English) & GM Jan Gustafsson (German) ? Videos)Levon Aronian vs Fabiano Caruana, Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament Round 7 (Analysis: GM Peter Svidler (English) & GM Jan ...
Caruana retains leadership in Candidates Tournament
Alexander Grischuk beat Vladimir Kramnik, while the other pairs - Ding Liren- Levon Aronian, Wesley So- Fabiano Caruana, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov -Sergey Karjakin - drew their respective games. Caruana has collected 5.5 points and retains leadership in the tournament. Aronian with 3 points is ...
2018 Candidates, Round 7: Caruana Back in Clear First at the Halfway Point
The most important win belonged to Fabiano Caruana, who withstood a kitchen sink attack from Levon Aronian. Aronian came up with a fascinating idea on the white side of a Vienna Variation, throwing caution and pawns to the winds. Caruana was up to the challenge though, and while Caruana made ...
Caruana retains a half point lead over Mamedyarov after Candidates Round 8
Wesley So played the Qe2 variation vs Fabiano Caruana's Petroff and found himself in trouble. However with a fine and accuate set of calculations he managed to hold the draw. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov didn't manage to set Sergey Karjakin any serious problems in the Catalan and the game was drawn ...
Levon Aronian vs Fabiano Caruana, Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament Round 7
Levon Aronian vs Fabiano Caruana, Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament Round 7 (Analysis: GM Peter Svidler (English) & GM Jan Gustafsson (German) ? Videos). March 19, 2018 March 19, 2018 by Infinite. ? ...
Caruana leads halfway through the Candidates Tournament 2018
Round 7 Standings: 1st Caruana 5pts, 2nd Mamedyarov 4.5pts, 3rd Kramnik 3.5pts, 4th Ding Liren 3.5pts, 5th Grischuk 3.5pts, 6th Karjakin 3pts, 7th Wesley So 2.5pts, 8th Aronian 2.5pts. Replay all the games in the Candidates Tournament 2018.
FIDE Candidates Tournament 2018 (Berlin GER) Sat 10th Mar 2018
Fed, Name, Rtg, Perf, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Pts, SB. 1, Caruana,Fabiano, 2784, 2935, ?, 1, ?, ?, 1, 3.5/5. 2, Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar, 2809, 2852, ?, ?, ?, 1, ?, 3.0/5, 6.5. 3, Kramnik,Vladimir, 2800, 2851, 0, 1, 1, ?, ?, 3.0/5, 6.5. 4, Ding,Liren, 2769, 2790, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, 2.5/5, 6.5. 5, Aronian,Levon, 2794 ...
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Caruana wins against Aronian to lead at the half way stage of the Berlin Candidates
Aronian found an interesting pawn sacrifice that hadn't been checked by Caruana in a position where he thought he'd looked at everything. Aronian got quite a lot of practical compensation but the computer assessments tellingly never were better for him and were occasionally dire. Aronian had a final ...
Candidates chess: Caruana stays in lead
Riding on a high a day after scoring over Vladimir Kramnik in an amazing battle, USA's Fabiano Caruana (3.5 points) easily drew with another Russian Sergey Karjakin in 31 moves and maintained his half-a-point lead following the fifth round of FIDE Candidates chess tournament here on Thursday.
Mamedyarov moves up to join Caruana in lead as FIDE Candidates Tournament nears halfway point
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Mamedyarov joins Caruana in the lead after beating Kramnik in Candidates Round 6
Fabiano Caruana played 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e3 an idea initially championed by his opponent Alexander Grischuk in 2013. Grischuk said he gave it up because of the setup he tried in the game, a setup Axel Smith called the "Poor Man's Benoni" in his book e3 Poison. Grischuk conceded he ...
Fabiano Caruana takes advantage after Vlad Kramnik blows candidates lead
Fabiano Caruana takes advantage after Vlad Kramnik blows candidates lead. The 25-year-old American shares the lead with Shak Mamedyarov after six of the 14 rounds at the candidates series with the winner set to face Magnus Carlsen for the world title ...
Kramnik Loses a Soul-Crusher to Caruana
Wow, what an amazing round! In a normal tournament, the game between Alexander Grischuk and Ding Liren would be talked about for days. It was a razor-sharp Anti-Moscow Gambit, and on top of that Grischuk trotted out the fascinating 12.Nxf7 piece sac Veselin Topalov used against Vladimir ...
FIDE Candidates Tournament 2018 ? Caruana beats Kramnik and grab the lead at Round 4
FIDE Candidates Tournament 2018 ? Caruana beats Kramnik and grab the lead at Round 4. FIDE's Candidates Tournament 2018 is an 8-player, 14-game, double round-robin tournament featuring the select top players of the world to compete against each other, the winner of which will claim the right to ...
Caruana retains top spot after draw with Karjakin at FIDE Candidates Tournament
American Fabiano Caruana retained top spot at the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Candidates Tournament 2018 after he drew with Russian Sergey ... Karjakin's team-mate Vladimir Kramnik was unable to join Caruana on 3.5 points as his match with Filipino-American Wesley So ended in stalemate.
Caruana takes the lead in the Candidates after beating Kramnik in an amazing battle in Round 4
Vladimir Kramnik played a fairly dull variation against Fabiano Caruana's Petroff defence and a draw seemed the very likely, but Kramnik became ambitious in Caruana's time trouble but what he did wasn't great and he was objectively lost, however with so little time Caruana couldn't convert and ...