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| Carlsen is cool but not complacent — 06-Feb-12, dispatch.com, play chess online Top chess players certainly aren’t clones. Magnus Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess grandmaster, is intense at the chessboard but seems to instinctively sidestep the storm and stress that buffeted chess champions such as Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. When asked whether he or Levon Aronian, the world’s second-ranked grandmaster, was the better chess player, Carlsen said he didn’t know but pointed out — for what it was worth — that his rating was a few points better than Aronian’s. Carlsen doesn’t obsess about such things; he simply goes about playing chess. With strong support from a family that often accompanies him when he plays, an income of more than $1 million a year, and ... |
| Hou Yifan Defeats Judit Polgar at Gibraltar Chess Festival — 05-Feb-12, nytimes.com, play chess online There was a changing of the guard at the top of the world chess rankings a few years ago, led by Magnus Carlsen, the current No. 1. But Judit Polgar’s spot at the top of the women’s list has been secure. The best woman chess player in history, Polgar, 35, has been No. 1 for 20 years, and no one had ever come close to challenging her. Until last week, when Hou Yifan, the 17-year-old women’s world chess champion, turned in a spectacular performance at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which ended on Thursday. Hou’s results will put her on the cusp of the top 100 among all chess players, and it seems only a matter of time before she joins Polgar, now No. 32, to become just the second woman in that ... |
| Chess Champ Hou Yifan in the Limelight — 04-Feb-12, huffingtonpost.com, play chess online Levon Aronian's brilliant victory at the prestigious Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, would normally be the topic of our conversation. But it was a young Chinese girl, Hou Yifan, 17, who stole the limelight. The women's world chess champion shared first place at the powerful Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar, one of the world's strongest open chess tournaments. Hou was in the lead going into the last round, but was caught at the last moment by Nigel Short. They both scored 8 points in 10 games and the English grandmaster grabbed the title in a blitz playoff. But Hou faced much tougher opponents. Facing six grandmasters rated above 2700 points - a barrier reserved for the best 40 chess players ... |
| Levon Aronian shrugs off losses to triumph at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee — 03-Feb-12, guardian.co.uk, play chess online Levon Aronian shrugged off an early loss to the chess world No1 Magnus Carlsen and a late defeat by a tail-ender to win first prize at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee this week with impressive authority. The Armenian world No2's 9/13 total was a point clear of Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, and the Italian 19-year-old Fabiano Caruana who shared second prize. The elite chess events which make up the chess equivalent of a Grand Slam include Moscow's Tal Memorial and the London Classic as well as Wijk. Aronian was subdued in London, but he tied first with Carlsen in Moscow and his overall rating is closing in on the Norwegian's. Aged 29 and at the height of his powers, Aronian would have been a good bet to capture ... |
| Low-key Aronian soars high in Wijk aan Zee chess tournament — 01-Feb-12, washingtontimes.com, play chess online Armenian GM Levon Aronian has added another chapter to a chess career that has been both illustrious and somewhat under the radar, capturing the 74th Tata Steel Grandmaster “A” Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, Sunday by a full point over Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov. Despite a loss to Carlsen during the Category 21 event, Aronian won going away, notching a quick last-round draw to finish at a very impressive 9-4. The genial 29-year-old Aronian, ranked second in the world behind Carlsen, led his small country to gold in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads and to a World Team Chess title last year. He also has racked up a slew of firsts in elite chess events over ... |
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