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It seems like the viking monarch of chess is back, looks like he has regained the strength of former glorious times, and those recently bad tournaments are a thing of the past. This time the victim of the Norwegian ogre was elite chinese player GM Li Chao (2750), there was expectation about how Magnus would do to a GM nearing the elite, no one got dissapointed, in a Grunfeld defense both sides castled opposite sides and a bloody struggle began, however it seems that Carlsen saw it all in an incredibly long forced variation that the computer analyzed accurately in advance, Magnus followed the complicated line move by move confirming the incredible calculation skills of the woold champ, when he is on the zone is an monster, just like Kasparov in the day.

In chess, sometimes stubbornness pays highly, you resist in a lost position, you hang in where others resign, you keep fighting until the last drop of blood and somehow you bring the point home. This happened to IM Vinesh (2422) against elite player and chinese wizard GM Wei Yi (2730), in a spanish opening Wei kept winnings chances all the game but, as said, Vinesh never gave up until the chinese player, perhaps tired by the hard defense put by his opponent, exchanged queens in a dead draw position getting a lost one and resigning in the act. This is a hard defeat but by no means a decline in the strength of Wei Yi, in fact, he was playing bright chess until the final error, let´s no forget he is only 16. On the other hand Vinesh has played a nice tournament and surely will gain a handful of ELO points in this great tournament.

1. A little bit of history.  In case you, dear chess friend, have been living under a rock for the last 3 or 4 years, maybe you haven´t notice the great changes in the chess gaming scene. Let me start by writing some history, probably the first servers (around 1993) where based in the now ancient FICS (free internet chess server), it forked in a number of engines, most famous being the worldwide famous "ICC" (Internet chess club) that was the place everyone wanted to be in, almost every GM from the chess elite played there, even Kasparov, and famous legends arouse, perhaps the biggest is that history about none other than Bobby Fischer playing anonymously and crushing everyone playing the likes of 1. f3 and defeating venerable GM's to shame. Ok. that was between late nineties and late 2000's. Well, now the scene has been changing quickly with the advent of Chess.com, Chess24, Playchess from Chessbase etc. what have all these sites in common? they are all great if yo