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  2. Grand Chess Tour 2021 - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Chess Tour 2021 was a series of chess tournaments, which was sixth edition of Grand Chess Tour. It consisted five tournaments, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls. [1] It was won by American grandmaster Wesley So. [2]

  3. Hans Niemann - Wikipedia

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    In February, he played in the Winter Chess Festival "Paraćin 2021" event in Paraćin, Serbia, winning both the classical and blitz sections with scores of 7/10 and 10½/11 respectively. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Then in April, Niemann was featured on the front cover of Chess Life magazine, with a cover story documenting his journey to becoming a ...

  4. Chess rating system - Wikipedia

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    A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the systems are used to ...

  5. Magnus Carlsen Invitational - Wikipedia

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    The tournament was structured as a series of mini-matches, consisting of four games of rapid chess, if needed followed by two rounds of blitz chess (semi-finals and final only), if needed followed by an Armageddon tie-break. The winner after rapid games received 3 points, the loser 0 points; if a tie-break was necessary, the winner received 2 ...

  6. Abhimanyu Mishra - Wikipedia

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    Mishra played in the 2021 Chess World Cup, losing 1½-½ to Baadur Jobava in the first round. [22] Mishra won the St. Louis 2022 Spring Chess Classic B with a score of 7/9 and a tournament performance rating of 2739. [23] Mishra placed second in the 2023 TePe Sigeman & Co with a score of 4.5/7 and a tournament performance rating of 2742. [24]

  7. Nikolas Theodorou - Wikipedia

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    Nikolas Theodorou (Greek: Νικόλας Θεοδώρου; born 17 September 2000) is a Greek chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster since 2021. He is a Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (in 2022 ).

  8. USCF Grand Prix - Wikipedia

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    USCF chess grand prix tournament. At the end of the year, prizes are awarded to players with the most points. The first prize is usually $10,000. [2] These prizes provide incentives to grandmasters to play in small regional tournaments which they would otherwise avoid. The Grand Prix of chess was started in the 1980s by Church's Chicken. As a ...

  9. 2021 in chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 6 Aug 206 (25) Jan-Krzysztof Duda: Sergey Karjakin: Magnus Carlsen: Women's Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 3 Aug 103 (-) Alexandra Kosteniuk: Aleksandra Goryachkina: Tan Zhongyi: World Chess Championship 2021: Best-of-14 match, with tie breaks 24 Nov ...