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Quan (Elo 1783) beat Shashikant (2,182) on Monday night on the 54th move. The Indian player dominated at the start, forcing his opponent to spend more time on counterattacks. But the native of Kien Giang province patiently waited for…

Magnus Carlsen, the world's highest ranked chess player, said Netflix pulled off "The Queen's Gambit," the limited series about a chess prodigy set in the 1950s and 1960s. In an interview this week, Carlsen told Insider the show…

Magnus Carlsen, the world's highest ranked chess player, said Netflix pulled off "The Queen's Gambit," the limited series about a chess prodigy set in the 1950s and 1960s.…

Playing quarterback is a bit like playing chess: reading the whole field (table), knowing the abilities of each player (piece) and seeing several movements in the future. As it turns out, Kyler Murray is good at both quarterback and…

Reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen was only ranked second behind Garry Kasparov, while Bobby Fischer is third in the full Hall of Fame revealed on chess24 today. The full list of the 50 greatest players of all time arrives as the…

CHENNAI: Young Indian international master Leon Luke Mendonca achieved his first grandmaster standard after winning the tournament title at the International Rigochess Festival in Hungary. The 14-year-old Mendonca won six games, drew and…

Young Indian international master Leon Luke Mendonca achieved his first grandmaster standard after winning the tournament title at the Rigochess International Festival in Hungary.The 14-year-old Mendonca won six games, drew and lost one…

-- How do you portray genius? Better and Lesser Efforts than the Seven-Part Netflix Miniseries "The Queen's Wager" have tried and failed at the task. Based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, "Queens" stars Anya Taylor-Joy ("The witch") as…

Those wondering where the matchmaking ranking, also known as MMR, comes from, the answer is Chess. And although the game is at least a thousand years old, it is coming back to modern eSports. Well-known organization Cloud9…

At the age of 16, Wolfgang contracted tuberculosis and was confined to a sanatorium for months. There he studied chess relentlessly and when he emerged, with Germany now divided between the Communist East and the Democratic West, he began…

Esports organization TSM has signed its first professional chess player, American grandmaster and five-time champion Hikaru Nakamura. The youngest American to ever achieve that coveted rank at age 15, Nakamura is considered one of the…

Tamara davis August 27, 2020 - 13:55 TSM esports organization has signed its first professional chess player, Hikaru Nakamura. He is an American grandmaster, five-time!-->!-->…

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The International Chess Federation-FIDE is the highest authority in chess. It is also known as the "World Chess Federation". FIDE was founded on July 20, 1924. It establishes chess rules for individual games and for the conduct of…

Update March 30, 2020: Due to the current COVID-19 situation in the United States, the Co-Chairs of the Scholastic Council have decided to extend the application deadline for the National Scholar Chess Player Award 2020 to May 15. Please…

Eric Labog Jr becomes fourth Filipino player suspended in online chess tournament MANILA, Philippines - An ASEAN age group champion has been disqualified by online chess portal chess.com for violating its fair…

Growing up I was very interested in both chess and the medical field. As a pre-med student, I wish I had been educated and trained enough to help during this very uncertain time. However, being a…

The chess playerThey left. They are all gone.The pigeon feeders are gone.The old men on the benches are gone.The ladies in the white gloves with the Great Danes are gone.The lovers who thought they were coming are gone.The man in the…

When chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen was 13, he faced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, one of the highest-rated players in the world. As Carlsen sat down to practice, he couldn't help but feel that he couldn't win against such a formidable…

The boys have been playing chess a lot lately. In fact, I was surprised at how well they got into it. The older two will play literally a dozen times a day and will always want me to play against them when I get home.I am a fan of chess…

MAHWAH - You are probably no match for 12-year-old Gary Leschinsky. His openness is quite strong, as are the rest of his movements. We can say that he is the king of his castle. As you might have guessed from cheap word games, Gary is a…

Quique Setien is the new man in the hot seat at Camp Nou and has certainly had an interesting career in his rise to the top of football. The Catalan giants were quick to name the former Real Betis coach after sacking Ernesto…

Magnus Carlsen - a 29-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster who has now spent six years as undisputed world champion - is a modern-day renaissance man. As detailed by The Guardian, Carlsen climbed to sixth in the Fantasy Premier League…

Jamaican basketball player Lawrence Foreman has taken a monumental step in his promising career. The 18-year-old center is committed to NCAA Division One School Rider University in New Jersey for 2020. The former Jamaica…

MOSCOW, October 31. / TASS /. Russian chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi dropped two places to 7th in the International Chess Federation's (FIDE) ranking recently released on Thursday. Russian chess player Nepomniachtchi now has 2,773…

For a decidedly bourgeois and diligent couple from Padi, a suburb of Chennai, Rameshbabu and Nagalakshmi faced a challenge that perhaps all parents face: how to distract their child's attention from television. One idea that won over…

In the USCF rankings in September, young American prodigy Scott Matthew Escalera placed 22nd in the Under-7 group. OAK PARK, Illinois - A six-year-old Filipino American chess player is now the highest-rated player at his age in the…

Even for someone who is super smart, becoming a skilled chess player takes a lot, a lot of practice. Likewise, practice is not everything. New research in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that…

When 12-year-old Mountain View resident Ruiyang Yan narrowly qualified for the US Junior Girls Chess Championship, she set her expectations cautiously low.However, as the grueling 10-day competition, hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club in…

When 12-year-old Mountain View resident Ruiyang Yan narrowly qualified for the United States Junior Women's Chess Championship, she set her expectations cautiously.However, as the grueling 10-day competition, hosted by the Saint Louis Chess…

For the second year in a row, 16-year-old Carissa Yip recently won the U.S. Junior Girls Chess Championship title.The competition is the most prestigious national chess championship for junior players under the age of 21. The Chelmsford…

Chess grandmaster Igors Rausis was reportedly caught looking at his phone during a bathroom break at a major tournament in France last weekend. The Latvian-Czech chess star has been charged with cheating and suspended as a result.The…

Sneaking into the bathroom with your smartphone to check out the best way to beat your opponent is probably the worst move you can make in a game of chess, but that's the charge against Grandmaster Igors Rausis afterwards. that he…

A star chess player was allegedly 'caught in the act' of cheating while using a phone in the bathroom during a tournament.A phone was reportedly found in a toilet that had just been used by Grandmaster Igors…

STRASBOURG, France — The International Chess Federation said it suspended a player at a tournament in France after the man was "caught in the act of using his phone during a game."The organization said on Twitter on Friday that all evidence…

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A competitive chess player from Austin is competing in a national tournament this week with the goal of winning another championship. Emily Nguyen, 16, has been playing competitively since she was 6, learning the…

Skills to enhance your business According to TARGET-jobs, one of the UK's most used graduate agencies, problem solving, organization and the ability to work under pressure are among the top 10 soft skills for a…

If you're a club player rated around 2000 USCF, then you're probably kidding the question in the title. You are probably thinking, "Yes, I would like to be world number one, but what are my chances of pushing my rating…

Nicolas Checa is among the top 10 junior chess players in the country and will take part in the invitation-only national championships next month. Photo by Natalie Chun By Natalie Chun Nicolas Checa, a 17-year-old grandmaster chess…

Jamarius Daniels was staring intently at the chessboard in front of him. The seventh grade student rested his elbow on the table, his hand still in the air as he pondered the battle plans and the risks. After a moment of silence, he…

April 30, 2019 Dota Auto Chess has taken another step forward. The Dota fan-made phenomenon continues to grow. Dota Auto Chess now boasts over eight million subscribers, in addition to a concurrent player count that would make it…

By Brandon Black Donor In the intellectually grueling competitive game of chess, 16-year-old Annie Wang, the top American player in her age group, has a style of play that is both aggressive and tactical. She sets the tone for a match…

Express press service KOZHIKODE: The first thing you notice about Mohammed Salih PK, a visually impaired chess player, is his passion for board games and his determination to excel in indoor sports. The 34-year-old…

Darpan Inani is the highest rated blind chess player in India and the youngest to win the National Blind Chess Championships. Darpan at the Chess Championship for the BlindDarpan Inani sits facing his opponent with his wooden…

The question asked is not a trick, but it is difficult. About a decade before Bobby Fisher made the cover, the inaugural chess player on the cover of Sports Illustrated was the American chess star of the 1960s Lisa Lane. Lisa…

The last weeks article about Puzzle Rush provided excellent feedback, so I want to thank you for your comments. When I see that people from different countries, different political views and different playing forces share a…

Niklesh Jain and Franco Angela make history together with players from 185 countries in Georgia. Niklesh Kumar Jain did not need Google Translate to pronounce these four words. 33 year old man international chess player de Katni in Madhya…

Chess enthusiasts love to debate the best chess player of all time. As I mentioned in my old post, is the question that has no answer. Indeed, it is very difficult to guess who would have won the Fischer-Karpov…

The Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, Missouri, held August 16-29, brought together some of the world's best chess players – including Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Viswanathan Anand – in games that captivated audiences . However, in…

Darpan Inani sits in front of his opponent and a personalized chessboard separates them. While he is waiting for his opponent to announce his move, he has already visualized the chessboard and pieces in his mind, and once his opponent…

Jeevan Karamsetty wants to teach you chess.Yes you.Oh, you don't know the difference between the room that looks like a castle and how to castle? Karamsetty doesn't care.Not sure what it means to put your opponent…

UNITED NATIONS - I almost deleted the email. I'm not used to receiving authentic correspondence from an adviser in Norway's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, so I almost put it away with the other press releases of the day,…

“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life”. - Betty Smith, A tree grows in BrooklynDennis Ivor Patterson, 73, died on…

The Chronicle Sports journalistPHAKAMANI Sithole of the Nkulumane Chess Club won the 2017 Bulawayo Candidates Tournament at Founders High School to book a ticket to the Bulawayo Championship next month. The Bulawayo Chess Association…

Dear Amy: I am a man who loves to play chess.A few days ago I was playing chess against a woman who got me in trouble from the start.In order to avoid the pain and embarrassment of being checkmated, I tried to quit.People quit at chess in…

Sunday marked the end of the most important chess tournament of the year, the London Chess Classic. The tournament was the third and final stop on the Grand Chess Tour, a newly formed circuit of three…

GOSHENThe earliest memory of John Cole's failures dates back to when he was around 7 years old.He and his…

Has nature called?This is what the 25-year-old Georgian grandmaster tried to make everyone believe. But Gaioz Nigalidze was actually using his toilet breaks at the Dubai Open chess tournament on Saturday to check out playing tactics on a…

A few weeks ago, social media catapulted 17-year-old volleyball player Sabina Altynbekova from Kazakhstan as a celebrity, now internet-loving, craving a new sportswoman they consider to be the most beautiful chess…

Maximillian "Max" Lu, of Greenwich, is an 8-year-old sophomore at Whitby School, and pretty much a typical kid. He plays basketball, tennis, soccer and baseball, and he skis and fencing. But a few years ago he embarked on a new activity…

This weekend at the Super Nationals in Nashville, Tenn., The biggest event of the year for school chess competitors, parents will be treated to something that has never been discussed at the event before: how to be…