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GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player to book his ticket to join GM Magnus Carlsen in the Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2023 finals, winning the Chessable Masters Division I finals over GM Fabiano Caruana.   Here are the up-to-date Champions Chess Tour standings #ChessChamps pic.twitter.com/a0i0Vx0ztL

Editor's Note: You can download the bulletin version of this article, with annotations by GM Elshan Moradiabadi, here.  

Editor's note: We are pleased to present the first of our daily bulletins in pdf for your print-at-home pleasure. You can also read the story and annotations here, or follow along on our interactive study embedded below. For today's installment, we highly recommend following along with the incredibly detailed lines courtesy of GM Awonder Liang.

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Shopping For a Sicilian As I mentioned in a prior column, I tend to respond symmetrically as Black except against 1.e4. I have several approaches I use against 1.e4 from time to time (the French, the Caro-Kann, and even the Scandinavian), but I have always enjoyed the counter-attacking nature of the Sicilian Defense. The problem I face is in which line to choose.

Editor's note (April 3, 2023): This article will be updated with more photos as they arrive, please continue to check back.    

Editor's note (April 3, 2023): This article will be updated with more photos as they arrive, please continue to check back.    

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