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Chess | 'My B-game is usually enough' - Magnus Carlsen takes a swipe at competitors after winning SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz
Magnus Carlsen, fresh off his SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia victory, stirred controversy with comments downplaying his ...
Kasparov feels Gukesh not yet ready to conquer Blitz after sudden loss of form in Croatia: 'Something is wrong...'
D Gukesh endured a miserable run in the Blitz leg of SuperUnited Croatia after shining in the Rapid games to surrender the ...
Magnus Carlsen and Gukesh’s Zagreb event in numbers: World champion started with 0.3% chance of winning; world no 1 lost just twice in 27 games
Before the tournament began, the Grand Chess Tour carried out 15,000 tournament simulations to predict who would win the ...
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Wesley So finishes runner-up to Carlsen in Croatia, bags P1.7 million
Wesley So sweeps dethroned titlist Fabiano Caruana in the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia to finish behind Magnus Carlsen ...
Carlsen downplays victory at SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia: 'I had one good day... that turned out to be enough'
Magnus Carlsen overcame a slow start at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, the third event of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour, ...
Magnus Carlsen posts after Zagreb win: ‘When nobody else has a great performance, my B-game is usually enough’
Playing what Carlsen himself described as “survival” chess using an “old man’s chess” approach, he did considerably well to ...
Pro-Nazi Gestures Caught On Cam: Croatian Singer Sparks Outrage At Massive Concert
Disturbing scenes from Zagreb have gone viral, showing thousands of fans at a Marko Perković concert raising fascist salutes ...
Chess: World No 1 Carlsen dominates in Zagreb despite another loss to Gukesh
India’s world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, 19, had created a bang, literally, last month at Stavanger when he defeated Magnus Carlsen on the 35-year-old’s home turf. Images of the Norwegian’s angry ...
Gukesh Settles for Strategic Third; Carlsen Triumphs with playful Display in Zagreb
The highly anticipated individual showdown between World Champion Gukesh and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen at the SuperUnited ...
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‘My B-game is usually enough,’ says Carlsen after winning Grand Chess Tour Croatia
Magnus Carlsen is unstoppable when he is in full flow. It appears he is still the superior player on the planet, especially ...
Chess | ‘Magnus Carlsen’s respect for D Gukesh is only going to grow’ – What does it even mean?
It’s like writing an article: if you have more time, then you do better work,” Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan explains the basic difference between classical chess and the faster formats like rapid and ...