2018 Paris Grand Chess Tour: Your Next Move Recap
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley highlights the action going into the first day in Paris. See what happened on the first leg of the Tour in Leuven.
2018.06.20
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley highlights the action going into the first day in Paris. See what happened on the first leg of the Tour in Leuven.
2018.06.20
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International Arbiter Mike Kummer shows a bizarre checkmate.
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Coming into the first day of Blitz Games, GM Wesley So was the leader of the Paris Grand Chess Tour Tournament but that quickly changed when GM Sergey Karjakin quickly took the lead after 9 rounds of Blitz Games. GM Hikaru Nakamura was coming up quickly behind Karjakin and it looks like it will be Karjakin and Nakamura fighting for the Champion title of the Paris Grand Chess Tour.
Wesley So has managed to stay on top of the leader board after the end of rounds 7-9 of the Rapid Games and heads into 18 rounds of Blitz games with the Kings of Blitz, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura. The Competition will heat up.
GM Wesley So is commanding the show at the end of Day 2 Rapid Rounds 4-6 as he comes out on top once again for the second day at the Paris Grand Chess Tour with Levon Aronian and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave close on his heels.
GM Wesley So continues his winning streak into Paris and is on top of the leader board after 3 rounds of Rapid games.
GM Wesley So leaves Leuven, Your Next Move as the winner of the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour and heads on over to Paris. Who will come out the winner of the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour.
GM Maurice Ashley polls the Grand Chess Tour Players on the upcoming World Chess Championship. Who will win and what will it take.
The 2018 Paris GCT tournament is the second stop on the 2018 Grand Chess Tour. Today is the final day of blitz play. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez, Maurice Ashley, Romain Edouard, and IM Jovanka Houska for the move-by-move.
2018.06.24
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