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    • Great Wonders Tournaments (3)

      Great Wonders: Easter Island's Moai  1800 - 1999 (full and started Feb 3) Easter Island's Moai The monolithic, stylized statues of Easter Island are considered a major feat of engineering, and the details of how they were carved, tran... | Read More

    • The best games of the last rounds

      1. H. Nakamura 9 2. V. Anand 8½ 3. L. AronianM. Carlsen 8 5. V. KramnikM. Vachier-Lagrave 7½ 7. A. GiriR. Ponomariov 6½ 9. I. Nepomniachtchi Wang Hao 6 11. A. GrischukE. l'AmiJ. Smeets 4½ 14. A. Shirov 4 | Read More

    • The best games of rounds 6 - 10

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    • The best games of rounds 1 - 5

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    • A few games of the 8th round

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    • Some games of the 7th round

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    • Some decisive games of the 6th round

      http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/standings/group/1 http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/standings/group/2 http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/standings/group/3 | Read More

    • Erwin l'Ami

      Erwin l'Ami (born April 5, 1985 in Woerden) is a chess Grandmaster. He has emerged, along with Jan Smeets, Daniel Stellwagen and Jan Werle, as one of a new generation of talented young players from the Netherlands. At Gausdal in 2004, he won the... | Read More

    • Jan Smeets

      Jan Smeets (born April 5, 1985, Leiden) is a Dutch chess player with the title Grandmaster. He was the Netherlands' national champion in 2008. In 2009 he did not take part, but in 2010 he successfully reclaimed the championship. While he found m... | Read More

    • Dutch Defence

      The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves 1. d4 f5 Elias Stein (1748–1812), an Alsatian who settled in The Hague, recommended the defence as the best reply to 1.d4 in his 1789 book Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, ave... | Read More