Round 10 and a “Mega Game” Are Underway at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway

We’ve already reached Round 10 of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. There are some big matchups today including what Chessdom calls a “Mega game” between French GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime and Chinese GM Wang Yue. This game could help decide overall team performance as well as individual medals for the two players.

Open event:

Women’s event:

Previously in chess

• New chess rules went into effect recently
• Magnus Carlsen was the first man to win the chess Triple Crown, but not the first person
• People in 1859 thought that newfangled chess contraption was rotting their kids’ minds

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