Chess US giants fail as Grenke Bank win first World Corporate Championship
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Russia’s No1 seeds, SBER, lose to last-minute blunder while Magnus Carlsen takes on amateurs in single combat
Germany’s Grenke Bank won last weekend’s inaugural World Corporate Championship when a last-minute back-rank mate from a lost position in the final defeated the top-seeded Russians, SBER, led by the world No 4, Ian Nepomniachtchi.
The entry of 288 teams was far above expectations, and included many famous names. To allow for time differences, there were six preliminary groups based on Europe and two based on the US. The last two were filled with global mega-companies, but the group winners were from Mexico and Indonesia. Continue reading...
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