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Wesley So fought Armenian bet Levon Aronian to a 44-move draw of a Queen’s Gambit Accepted Tuesday to remain on top after five rounds of the Grand Chess Tour’s Sinquefield Cup 2022 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Wesley So
The Cavite-born So now has three points on a win, which came at the expens
In his “Game of the Week” show #532 Merijn van Delft looks at the controversial game between Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup 2022. Carlsen lost with White and then withdrew from the tournament. The tweet, with which Carlsen announced his withdrawal caused a fervent and on-going debate whether Niemann cheated when he won against Carlsen. But what about the game? | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target=" blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
Wesley So smashed fellow American Fabiano Caruana to zoom to solo second after three rounds of the Grand Chess Tour’s 2022 Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis, United States Sunday, Sept. 4.
Wesley So
So prevailed after 67 moves of a Petroff Defense to improve to two points, just half a point behin
Actually more players in the top 100: 13 US grandmasters vs 12 from Russia, down from 22 five years ago. But even the total is closing: In total Russia still has 246 grandmasters, compared to 101 from the US. Many Russian GMs from the older generation, like Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, have dropped out of the rating list, but the main reason for the decline is the reaction of players to Russia's war invasion of Ukraine. | Newsweek photo Getty