Magnus Carlsen plays the 2021 World Cup
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will play the FIDE World Cup that starts in Sochi, Russia on July 12th, though as one of the Top 50 seeds he’ll join from Round 2 on July 15th. Magnus last played in the 2017 World Cup, when he overpressed and got knocked out by Bu Xiangzhi in Round 3. Although Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So have declined invitations the rest of the world Top 10, including world no. 2 Fabiano Caruana, defending champion Teimour Radjabov and losing finalist Ding Liren, are all set to play.
Can Magnus Carlsen win his 1st World Cup? | photo: David Llada, FIDE
/PRNewswire/ The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, announces two, all-new exhibitions – Pawns & Passports:.
NOTEBOOK - ONE GOOD READ: Chess grandmaster, gambits and chairs Wednesday, April 28, 2021 11:14 AM One of the best new miniseries released in recent months was Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, which follows the life of an orphan who learned to play chess from a janitor at the group home where she was placed and rose to the top of the chess world while battling numerous demons including drug addiction. The miniseries was good; the novel written by Walter Tevis is better. So it’s not surprising that an article by Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson published this week in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. Eight of the world s best chess players recently resumed the Candidates Tournament, interrupted a year ago by the pandemic. The tournament’s winner will challenge current World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen for the title. While waiting for the tournament to resume, the chess masters played chess on their computers and studied openings
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