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2021 Grand Chess Tour Promo

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CCSCSL Staff
on June 02, 2021 in

The dates for the first two events are in June.

The 2021 Grand Chess Tour will feature two classical and three rapid & blitz events, picking up after the cancellation of the 2020 season. Tour participants will compete for a total prize fund of $1.275 million, including $325,000 per classical tournament and $150,000 in prizes for rapid & blitz events.

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Beating GM Perez at World Cup Qualifier | Insane in the Endgame - GM Varuzhan Akobian

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CCSCSL Staff
on June 02, 2021 in

Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian shows his quarterfinal World Cup Qualifier game against Cuban GM Luis Manuel Perez at the online hybrid knockout tournament. Akobian won his match against Perez, but ultimately failed to qualify for the Cup.

2021.06.01
Varuzhan Akobian vs. Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez, 2021: D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav defence, exchange variation
https://www.365chess.com/game.php?back=1&gid=4287864

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Holy Cow! I Won the Chicago Open! (U2300) | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby

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CCSCSL Staff
on June 01, 2021 in

National Master Caleb Denby shares lessons he learned during the 2021 Chicago Open, where he won clear first in the U2300 section.

2021.06.01
Caleb Denby vs. Evan Huang, 2021: E98 King's Indian, orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, 9.Ne1
Benjamin Tang vs. Denby, 2021: B18 Caro-Kann, classical variation
Denby vs. Sergei Muratov, 2021: D31 Queen's Gambit Declined, semi-Slav, Marshall gambit
Max Zinski vs. Denby, 2021: B10 Caro-Kann, two knights variation

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Holy Cow! I Won the Chicago Open! (U2300) | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby | lichess.org

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CCSCSL Staff
on June 01, 2021 in

National Master Caleb Denby shares lessons he learned during the 2021 Chicago Open, where he won clear first in the U2300 section.

2021.06.01
Caleb Denby vs. Evan Huang, 2021: E98 King's Indian, orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, 9.Ne1
Benjamin Tang vs. Denby, 2021: B18 Caro-Kann, classical variation
Denby vs. Sergei Muratov, 2021: D31 Queen's Gambit Declined, semi-Slav, Marshall gambit
Max Zinski vs. Denby, 2021: B10 Caro-Kann, two knights variation

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2021 Superbet Chess Classic: Round 1

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CCSCSL Staff
on May 31, 2021 in

The second Superbet Chess Classic is the first leg of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, live from the Sheraton Bucharest Hotel in Romania. Eight of the nine tour players are joined by two wildcards for nine rounds of classical chess. Join GMs Alejandro Ramirez, Yasser Seirawan, Cristian Chirila, Maurice Ashley, and IM Almira Skripchenko for the move-by-move.

This is a copy of the original stream, which had technical issues. The stream had 2660 concurrent viewers.

2021.06.05
GrandChessTour.org

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