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2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz: Day 2 | #GrandChessTour

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CCSCSL Staff
on November 14, 2023 in

Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, the 7th Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz is the fourth of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Six of the Tour players are joined by four wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the middle three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Peter Svidler & Yasser Seirawan, IM Tania Sachdev, & WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.

2023.11.15
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RAPID ROUND 4 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
| GAME = 2 PTS
Liem Le (5) vs. Sam Sevian (3)

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2023 Sinquefield Cup | #GrandChessTour | PROMO

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CCSCSL Staff
on November 10, 2023 in

The 10th annual Sinquefield Cup is the fifth and final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. Eight Tour players (players below) are joined by two wildcards for a classical chess round robin, live from the World Chess Hall of Fame. Join a commentary team TBA from November 21 - December 1 at 1:20 P.M. CST.

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PLAYERS
Fabiano Caruana
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Richard Rapport
Alireza Firouzja
Wesley So
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Anish Giri
Levon Aronian
Leinier Dominguez

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Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack vs. The English | Prepare Like A Pro - GM Akshat Chandra

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CCSCSL Staff
on November 09, 2023 in

Grandmaster Akshat Chandra analyzes two games he played as Black against the English with the Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4).

2023.11.09
Andrew Zheng vs. Akshat Chandra, 2016: A22 English, Bremen, Smyslov system
Seth Homa vs Akshat Chandra, 27th Chicago Open (2018): A21 English, Kramnik-Shirov counterattack
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2570433

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2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | #GrandChessTour | PROMO

By
CCSCSL Staff
on November 09, 2023 in

Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, the 7th Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz is the fourth of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Six of the Tour players are joined by four wildcards (players below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Join GMs Peter Svidler, Yasser Seirawan, & IM Tania Sachdev from November 14-18 at 1:05 P.M. CST.

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