As 2019 comes to a close, SLM and Design STL are reflecting on the reporting that went into some of our favorite stories

Jorge Cori & Illia Nyzhnyk tied for 1st. Cori won the Armageddon game to win the trophy!

The world's top blitz player, made short work of Levon Aronian as he crushed the Armenian 3-1

Trent: "...what I think he did today is not in the spirit of the competition, to be brutally honest."

The second round exploded as Carlsen lost spectacularly to the young Russian Daniil Dubov

Average FIDE Rating Standard of 2703 (FIDE Category 19)

Carlsen, the classical World Champion and world number 1, had an extremely disappointing day scoring just 1.5/4

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