What was expected all along the past fortnight, eventually happened in the most unexpected way. World number one Norway's Magnus Carlsen earned the... ...

The Candidates tournament has had a sober start, but it has crested in intensity at pretty much the right time, as the home stretch approaches. The... ...

Round eleven was another day when Magnus Carlsen's dominance at the Candidate's tournament was challenged but order was more or less restored by... ...

Magnus Carlsen drew his round eleven game against Alexander Grischuk, but Levon Aronian could not take advantage as he fell to his second loss of... ...

World No.1 Magnus Carlsen's 37-move defeat of Russian Alexander Grischuk took him to the top of the leaderboard along with Levon Aronian at the end... ...

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2. vassily ivanchuk
3. magnus carlsen
4. levon aronian
5. boris gelfand
6. sergey karjakin
7. ukraine
8. vugar gashimov
9. veselin topalov
10. hikaru nakamura
11. vladimir kramnik
12. israel
13. monaco
14. ruslan ponomariov
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18. armenia
19. ruy lopez
20. peter svidler
21. bulgaria
22. anand
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25. azerbaijan
26. emil sutovsky
27. shakhriyar mamedyarov
28. india
29. viswanathan anand
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