The St Louis time control, with 30 seconds delay per move rather than increment, imposes odd constraints
The St Louis Grand Chess Tour concluded with Levon Aronian winning with 22/28, ahead of Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier Lagrave
Suryasekhar Ganguly won the prestigious One Belt One Road Open in Hunan, China, with 7 points from 9 games to bag $50,000
The big news of the week for Indian fans was the fantastic performance of two teenaged siblings at the Xtracon Open in Denmark
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Rausis was a mid-level GM (Elo 2500-2550) for years. From 2013, he has ramped up his rating (perfectly legally) by playing much weaker players. Elo calculation requires convenient differential cut-off
The world champion won his eighth successive tournament, taking the Zagreb leg of the Grand Chess Tour
The Asian continental saw Indians take four out of five spots for the World Cup 2019
Goryachkina and Carlsen won the Women's Candidates and the Altibox Super GM, respectively, with a round to spare, with both losing their last game
The Diagram, White to play (White: Sasikiran Vs Black: Artemiev, Karpov Poikovsky 2019) is a classic attack
Regardless of what happens, this event introduces decent prize money to the women's title cycle, with Euro 200,000 as the prize fund
Aravindh Chithambaram achieved the distinction of holding all senior national titles
The French Top 12 Club championship holds some special interest for India since a lot of Indians play for the French clubs
Carlsen ended with a record score of 26.5 despite two losses to Maxime Vachier Lagrave
Magnus Carlsen heads the 10-player field, with a prize fund of $150,000
Magnus Carlsen won his fourth classical super GM tournament in a row with a round to spare
The Grenke Chess Classic is interestingly poised
The Shenzhen GM has just got underway and the Grenke Chess Classic starts this weekend
Magnus Carlsen won the Gashimov Memorial at Shamkir with an amazing 2988 performance
In the women's championship, Jennifer Yu scored an amazing 10/11 dropping just two draws for a 2678 performance