Carlsen, who has won the last two Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour events in Paris and Karlsruhe, has joined hands with former Chicago Bulls point guard Rose in a pro-am event titled \u201cChesstival\u201d that features several other ex-NBA stars alongside chess players.read more<\/p>\n
Chess joined hands with basketball in a unique moment in sport with NBA legend Derrick Rose collaborating with with Norwegian chess icon Magnus Carlsen for an event in Las Vegas, USA recently. The event, titled \u2018Chesstival\u2019, featured several other stars from the world\u2019s top basketball league and took place ahead of the STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADEx-NBA star Rose joins hands with chess icon Carlsen<\/p>\n Besides Rose, his former Chicago Bulls teammate Tony Snell and ex-Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo and ex New Orleans Pelicans power forward and center Jeremiah Robinson-Earl also participated in the pro-am chess event that featured NBA Blitz Chess Championship \u2013 which carried a $50,000 charity prize fund.<\/p>\n The Chicago Bulls even shared pictures of Rose competing alongside Carlsen against Robinson-Earl and Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi. \u201cFind D-Rose at the chessboard,\u201d read the caption of the post. \u201c@drose & @magnus_carlsen hosted NBA hoopers & world-class chess player at Chesstival here in Vegas!\u201d<\/p>\n Former point guard Rose, who was adjudged the NBA Most Valuable Player in 2011 and is also a three-time NBA All Star, has taken quite the interest in chess in the year that has passed since retiring from basketball last year.<\/p>\n \u201cChess has taught me patience, vision and how to stay calm under pressure. I want kids who grow up like I did to have access to that,\u201d Rose had told Essentially Sports.<\/p>\n Carlsen, meanwhile, enters the American leg of the Grand Slam Tour on the back of his victory in Paris, where he defeated Hikaru Nakamura convincingly in an \u2018El Chessico\u2019 final. It was quite the statement from the world No 1 after he had finished third in the opening event in Weissenhaus, Germany, losing to Vincent Keymer in the semi-finals. He would go on to win the subsequent event in Karlsruhe, Germany \u2013 part of the Grenke Chess Festival \u2013 STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n
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