• Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...
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    return to chess marked a rough stretch of form, with a set of poor performances at this years' Tata Steel Masters, Norway Chess, and the Grenke Chess Classic...
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    Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
    November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, the reigning five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, the reigning...
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    from Norway, who is also the top-ranked classical chess player, reigning World Rapid Chess Champion, as well as the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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    11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the...
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  • included Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. The Grand Chess Tour was announced on April 24, 2015, at the Saint Louis Chess Club...
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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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    Fabiano Caruana (redirect from CaruanaChess)
    undisputed World Chess Championship since Bobby Fischer in 1972. In the run-up to the championship match, he won the Grenke Chess Classic, Norway Chess, and shared...
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  • Norwegian Chess Championship (NM i sjakk) is an annual tournament held in Norway during the month of July, in order to determine the national chess champion...
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  • The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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    place at the 5th Grenke Chess Classic with a score of 5/9 (+2–1=6). 2018: Eighth place at the sixth edition of Norway Chess, with a score of 3/8 (+0–2=6)...
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    announcement in professional chess since 1988." It had three events – Norway Chess in June, Sinquefield Cup in August and London Chess Classic in December. Each...
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    the final stage in Paris, Wang finished tenth with 5/11. At the 2013 Norway Chess tournament, Wang Hao finished in seventh place with three wins, three...
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    Aryan Tari (category Norwegian chess players)
    Iranian parents) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Tari was Norwegian champion in 2015 and 2019 and won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017. As...
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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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    Levon Aronian (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at age 17...
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  • Symmetrical Defense (category Chess openings)
    champion Magnus Carlsen in the Champions Chess Tour 2023 finals and beat reining world champion Ding Liren in Norway Chess 2024. He employed a similar opening...
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    Simen Agdestein (category Norwegian chess players)
    15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team...
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  • The Norwegian Chess Federation (Norwegian: Norges Sjakkforbund, often abbreviated as NSF) is the national federation of chess in Norway. It was founded...
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    Retrieved 2 July 2019. — search returned 18 objects "Chess bishop probably made in Trondheim, Norway, AD 1150-1200". metmuseum.org. Art collection. New...
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    Sergey Karjakin (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Chess Championship and the Norway Chess tournament in 2013 and 2014. He competed at the Candidates Tournament 2014, placing second. He won the Chess World...
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    open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...
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  • Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site has a freemium model in...
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    Plata chess tournament Monte Carlo chess tournament Moscow City Chess Championship M-Tel Masters Netanya chess tournament North Sea Cup Norway Chess Paris...
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    Nodirbek Abdusattorov (category Chess players from Tashkent)
    Fazliddin oʻgʻli Abdusattorov; born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of...
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  • 2023 FIDE Circuit (category 2023 in chess)
    takes the lead". chessbase.com. 1 March 2023. "Hikaru Nakamura wins Norway Chess 2023". FIDE. 10 June 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023. Doggers (PeterDoggers)...
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    Wesley So (category Filipino chess players)
    American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion...
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    R Praggnanandhaa (category Indian chess players)
    round of the Norway Chess 2024 tournament, he defeated Magnus Carlsen for the first time in a classical 'over the board' match. At the 45th Chess Olympiad...
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    2015, the London Chess Classic was one of the three events that comprised the inaugural Grand Chess Tour, the other two being Norway Chess and the Sinquefield...
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