The 2019 Cote d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz is the first leg on the largest Grand Chess Tour ever! Players compete in rapid and blitz chess for a total prize fund of $150,000. Today is three rounds of rapid chess. Join GMs Alejandro Ramirez, Yannick Pelletier, Maurice Ashley, and IM Tania Sachdev for the move-by-move.
2019.05.10
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley interviews Hôtel Pullman Abidjan Manager Francois Cernejeski during Day 3 of the first leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
2019.05.10
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley interviews ECOWAS Blitz Tournament Champion IM Oladapo Adu of Nigeria during Day 5 of the first leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
2019.05.12
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley asks the players how they feel about the 2019 Grand Chess Tour growing from 9 to 12 circuit competitors and from 5 to 8 events.
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley asks the players how excited they are to play in Côte d’Ivoire.
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley highlights the first nine blitz rounds of the first leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
2019.05.11
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley interviews Ivorian Chess Federation Event Organizer & President Dr. Essoh Essis during Day 3 of the first leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
2019.05.10
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Grandmaster Robert Hungaski is forced to relive his greatest defeats.
2019.05.14
One of Nigeria's top Chess Stars, IM Oladapo Adu, shares his story of coming back home to Nigeria to give back and inspire.
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley feels the Grand Chess Tour Players out on how they feel towards the expansion of the Grand Chess Tour circuit into new Countries beginning with the Côte d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz in Africa.
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