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The Candidates Tournament played in Berlin to decide the next world title challenger is over and it will be remembered as one of the most spectacular tournaments in the history of chess. With plenty of fighting chess, us, the fans, got a daily share of entertainment that is hard to compare to anything we can […]

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Sergey Karjakin needs no introduction. He is a Russian chess prodigy who holds a record for obtaining the GM title when he was 12 years and 7 months old. He passed the 2700 ELO mark just before his 17th birthday and joined the elite grandmasters’ club. He has won some very strong tournaments like Corus […]

For this week’s edition of 3 best games we have selected three games played in the recently finished Candidates Tournament won by the Russian GM Karjakin. Nakamura was unlucky in the tournament of not getting a better result.