Archive for Fabiano Caruana
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 18:31
The Stevie G. behind the scenes report, with Grischuk, Leko and Memedyarov. And: Lost on the cutting room floor, we wrap up the summer supertournament news. Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #24b and #25 are out!
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Monday, October 08, 2012 21:24
In today's 6th round of the Masters Final tournament leader Fabiano Caruana lost his first game. The Italian GM was ground down in an ending by Magnus Carlsen, who avoided theory and started his game with a Philidor set-up. The other two games, Karjakin-Aronian and Vallejo-Anand, ended in draws. Carlsen is now 2 points behind Caruana with four...
Friday, September 28, 2012 23:32
With yet another win Fabiano Caruana extended his lead at the Grand Slam Masters Final in Sao Paulo to four points. On Friday the Italian defeated Paco Vallejo with the white pieces, while both Carlsen-Aronian and Karjakin-Anand ended in draws. On Saturday the fifth and last round will be played in Sao Paulo; then the players will travel to Bilbao...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:45
The fifth Grand Slam Masters Final started with a bang. In Sao Paulo, Brazil world's number one Magnus Carlsen immediately suffered a loss against Fabiano Caruana. Levon Aronian won against Sergey Karjakin while Vishy Anand and Paco Vallejo drew their first game.
Caruana beats Carlsen in round 1 | Photos by Albert Silver courtesy of the official...
Monday, September 24, 2012 13:23
Today the fifth Grand Slam Masters Final starts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The first round, scheduled for 15:00 local time (20:00 CET) has the following pairings: Anand-Vallejo, Aronian-Karjakin and Caruana-Carlsen.
The players during the opening ceremony on Sunday | All photos courtesy of the official website
Event
5th Grand Slam Masters Final
Dates...
Thursday, September 13, 2012 16:37
This week the organizers of the Grand Slam Masters Final, which will be held September 24th-October 13th in Sao Paulo and Bilbao, confirmed that the participants will be Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin and Francisco Vallejo Pons.
In a press release sent on Tuesday, September 11th the organizers finally...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:48
For the second consecutive year Sao Paulo, Brazil will host the first half of the Grand Slam Masters Final. The dates for the first leg are September 24th-29th, 2012 while the second half will take place in Bilbao, Spain from October 8th till 13th. This was announced yesterday in a press release.
On Monday morning the City Halls of Bilbao and Sao...
Sunday, July 22, 2012 21:20
Fabiano Caruana won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund on Sunday. The Italian grandmaster edged out Sergey Karjakin on tiebreak after both players finished on 6/9. The first tiebreak rule, number of black games, was the same for the players but Caruana scored three victories and Karjakin only two.
Fabiano Caruana with flowers and the trophy...
Monday, June 18, 2012 18:38
Magnus Carlsen won yet another top tournament. On Monday he defeated Luke McShane with Black, and because Fabiano Caruana lost to Levon Aronian the Norwegian finished clear first at the Tal Memorial with 5.5/9. Caruana came second as he edged out Teimour Radjabov on the tie-break rule of higher number of black games.
Numbers 3, 1, 2 L-R: Radjabov...
Sunday, June 17, 2012 20:10
With one round to go, Fabiano Caruana is half a point ahead of the field at the Tal Memorial in Moscow. On Sunday the Italian beat Vladimir Kramnik. Luke McShane won again; the Englishman inflicted the third consecutive loss upon Alexander Morozevich. Alexander Grischuk won against Hikaru Nakamura.
Fabiano Caruana, close to achieving his career's...
