The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool...
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Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess...
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Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura tied for second place. Norway Chess 2015 took place in mid-June 2015 and was a part of the inaugural Grand Chess Tour...
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a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen, after surprisingly losing in their...
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The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...
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Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess))
Since April 2020, Nakamura participated in the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour with a prize pool of $1 million. He won the group stage of Magnus Carlsen Invitational...
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Play Magnus Group is a Norwegian chess company co-founded by chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in 2013. The company released the mobile app Play Magnus in...
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Gukesh Dommaraju (category 21st-century Indian chess players)
tournament in October 2022, Gukesh became the youngest to beat Magnus Carlsen, the reigning World Chess Champion at that time. In August 2023, Gukesh became the...
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Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2020 was an online chess tournament that ran from 18 April to 3 May 2020 as the first round of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour...
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Ding Liren (category Chess Grandmasters)
the longest in top-level chess history, until Magnus Carlsen surpassed it in 2019. Ding ended up being the runner-up of Chess World Cups in 2017 and 2019...
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Nigel Short. The tour was designed to promote competitive chess by including all of the top players and then-World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a single circuit...
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Champions Chess Tour (CCT) is a fast online chess tournament circuit organized by Chess.com. Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020 Champions Chess Tour 2021 Champions...
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The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine...
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Ian Nepomniachtchi (category Chess Grandmasters)
Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is the reigning (shared with Magnus Carlsen) World Blitz Chess Champion. He is also a 2 time Russian Chess Champion...
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Hans Niemann (redirect from Chess speaks for itself)
defeating reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. As a result, Carlsen withdrew from the tournament...
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Alireza Firouzja (category Chess Grandmasters)
French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more...
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Sergey Karjakin (category Chess Grandmasters)
right to challenge for the World Chess Championship. In November 2016, he lost the championship match to Magnus Carlsen in the rapid tiebreaks after drawing...
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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
in 2012. In 2013, he lost the title to challenger Magnus Carlsen, and he lost a rematch to Carlsen in 2014 after winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament...
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Fabiano Caruana (redirect from CaruanaChess)
shared first in the Sinquefield Cup. Caruana lost the World Chess Championship to Magnus Carlsen in the rapid tiebreaks after drawing all twelve of the classical...
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Wesley So (category Filipino chess players)
Chess Champion after defeating Magnus Carlsen to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. A former chess prodigy, So became the youngest...
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Nodirbek Abdusattorov (category Chess players from Tashkent)
open world chess champion in any time format, breaking the record held by Magnus Carlsen, who was 18 years old when he won the World Blitz Chess Championship...
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Anish Giri (category Chess Grandmasters)
seven points. At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023, Giri beat World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in classical chess for the first time in 12 years...
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won by Magnus Carlsen with a perfect score of 9/9. Parham Maghsoodloo finished second on tiebreaks and qualified for the Las Vegas Freestyle Chess Grand...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
"Freestyle chess" has also been used by the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge and the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour promoted by Magnus Carlsen and Jan...
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Play Magnus Group owns brands and businesses including the chess server chess24, the mobile app Play Magnus, the Champions Chess Tour, and the chess improvement...
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Sinquefield Cup (category Invitational chess tournaments)
the fifth leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour. It was won by Ding Liren on tiebreaks, 3–1. Ding Liren and Magnus Carlsen were tied with 6½ points out of...
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champion for the title. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the 2013 Candidates and then convincingly defeated Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013. Beginning...
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List of sports rivalries (section Chess)
Guardian's coverage of an epic world chess championship match". The Guardian. 22 September 2009. "Kasparov and Karpov in chess duel". BBC News. 22 September...
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and 1/½/0 points system for a win/draw/loss in blitz. World Champion Magnus Carlsen won the overall event through a dominant performance in the rapid portion...
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