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Why Albert Belle is the best chess player Craig Carton has ever faced
Craig Carton explains to Evan Roberts why former Cleveland Indian power hitter Albert Belle is the best chess person he's ever played and how the two got to playing against each other. Watch more from Carton & Roberts:…
Koneru Humpy, the best Indian chess player of all time and the reigning women’s fast chess…
Bombay, July 1: The name of Koneru Humpy, India's top chess player and reigning women's fast chess world champion, has been nominated for the country's highest sporting honor. On Thursday, the All India Chess…
Venezuelan chess player wins FM title at 88
An 88-year-old Venezuelan chess player recently received a very nice surprise: his FM title. He was informed that FIDE had recognized the nomination for the title on the basis of the results he had achieved in the 1960s.
It's a record…
Diary of a terrible chess player
At exactly the 13th minute of the first episode of The Queen's Gambit, I realized that chess was my true calling. I remembered what Barbie and countless motivational influencers had taught me - “You can be anything you want to be” -…
Joseph Norman Cotter, educator and tournament chess player, dies at 91
Joseph Norman Cotter, 91, a high school principal and chess tournament player, died Sunday May 23 in the retirement community of Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford from advanced dementia.Whether it was foreign languages, demanding pursuits…
Chess player Desmoine Bennett wins Be Someone community tournament – On Common Ground News
Top in the photo: first place winner Desmoine Bennett, 14
Bas LR: Second place winner Marcus Harris, 9, and third winners Steve Sadiq, 9, and David "DJ" Dorsey, 14
STONE MOUNTAIN, GA- Desmoine…
Odisha’s U-18 chess caught cheating, national title stripped – the New Indian Express
Express news service
BHUBANEWAR: Just days ago, celebrities including billionaire entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath were caught cheating while playing five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand in a charity chess game…
Zhansaya Abdumalik becomes the first Central Asian chess player to receive the title of male…
NUR-SULTAN - Young Kazakh chess prodigy Zhansaya Abdumalik became the first player from Kazakhstan and Central Asia to receive the title of grandmaster on June 1, reports the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
Zhansaya Abdumalik at…
Russian chess player Nepomniachtchi retains 4th place in new FIDE Top 10 – Sport
MOSCOW, May 31. / TASS /. Russian chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi maintained his 4th place in the new World Chess Federation (FIDE) ranking list, released by the chess world's governing body press service on Monday.
According to the…
World’s Best Chess Player Visits Indianapolis
One of the world's greatest chess players faced 12 local players, at the same time. And, he didn't hold back.
INDIANAPOLIS - There are very few like him. Aleksandr Lenderman is not only a master at chess, but…