Chess Blitz of the Day - LEVON ARONIAN vs HIKARU NAKAMURA | Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

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“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”
_{Nigel Short}

Chess Blitz of the Day

Tournament = Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

Levon Aronian

"I really like the Candidate Tournament. I understand, of course, that it is only a tournament and that people believe that anyone can win it. However, when he concludes, he is usually won by the best player. It does not happen that someone gets to lead with +5 and then finish in the last place. Usually the person who shows a good game from the beginning ends up winning. For example, in Jánty-Mansisk 2014, Vishy Anand won by a good margin, playing in a wonderful way. Or we can remember what they did Magnus Carlsen and Volodya Kramnik, who played very well in London 2013. It seems to me that throughout the history of the sport, we have never seen any player win this event."

Hikaru Nakamura

Without a doubt, his maximum chess achievement was to obtain the first place in the classic superstar of Wijk ann Zee (old Corus Tournament), obtaining nine possible thirteen points, and leaving ahead of the World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and the number one And two in the FIDE world ranking, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Armenian Levon Aronian. A real feat.