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London Chess Classic: Round 2

cynosure Chess

Action and highlights from round 2 of the LCC. Including Anand v MVL, Kramnik v Aronian and all the other top games.

Another dramatic day from the London Chess Classic today, with incredibly unfortunate losses from Topalov and Adams – both from blunders again – and make it really difficult for them to have any reasonable chance of them being serious contenders in this tournament.

The day wasn’t all blunder-ridden though, with Viswanathan Anand discovering a beautiful tactic against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in what was possibly the most interesting game of the day.

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London Chess Classic: Round 1

Ophi Seurat Chess

Highlights from Round 1 of the London Chess Classic 2016, the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour.

It is a testament to the increasing popularity of lichess that, having covered the World Chess Championship 2016 (Carlsen vs Karjakin if you were living under a rock), lichess was equally invited to cover the London Chess Classic, the last leg of the Grand Chess Tour. I was fortunate enough to sit in an air conditioned VIP analysis room alongside journalists, older or less active grandmasters, the coaches, business men and those who run and organise national and international chess federations.

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2016 WCC, Game 10: The Beautiful Struggle

Tyler Schwartz Chess

Carlsen needs a win badly

How did Carlsen and Karjakin get here?

Trying to predict how Carlsen will handle this must-win situation is difficult because he’s never been in this situation before. Carlsen never trailed in either World Championship Match with Anand, and this is Karjakin’s first World Championship match, so it’s difficult to say how the pressure, and high steaks are affecting him.

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Puzzles Update

James 'Clarkey' Clarke Announcements

You've waited patiently and now it's here

Updating the tactics trainer has been under development for some time now and we're finally ready to reveal what's new. It was teased in the last developer update that change was in air starting with 40k new puzzles, but under the hood there's been some fundamental changes aswell.

So what's new? Let's find out.

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