After Spanish, German, Vishwanathan Anand Has Now Cracked Hindi! NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Cool as a cucumber. That’s five-time World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. Cooped up in Germany due to the ...
Ding Liren was on top of the chess world; then, like some before him, he started to wilt.
Andrew Soltis, a fellow chess columnist whom we vastly admire, found himself writing a biography of Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-95). His wife wondered why he would choose "such a cold personality." He ...
The history of chess is filled with prodigies who seemed destined for greatness before they became adults. Interestingly, elite chess players spend thousands of hours training before they reach their ...
The attacking infantry advances steadily, their elephants already having broken the defensive line. The king tries to retreat, but enemy cavalry flanks him from the rear. Escape is impossible. But ...
In the championships of Russia’s national indoor game some 700,000 competed in 1936. The game: chess. This week, with short-wave radio bridging Moscow and Manhattan, the Russians tried their hand at ...
Every day for a month Muscovites young & old had jammed October Hall to the doors. They followed the play on giant dummy boards suspended over the flag-decked stage. Generals, admirals and diplomats ...
New Delhi: In a momentous interaction highlighting India's glorious chess legacy, young FIDE-rated chess champions Alokik Maheshwari, Aradhya Upadhyay, and Hardik Shah from Rajasthan, accompanied by ...
Ranking the best chess players is no easy task. As modern chess evolved, chess theory became more complex and more accessible to the wider population, which gave rise to some of the most remarkable ...
The games of yesteryear which are considered elegant masterpieces were contested without the assistance of computers. When we re-examine them with assistance of technology we realize they are ...
Editor’s Note: Starting today, we present On The Moves, a weekly column which will appear every Tuesday from Amit Kamath on chess where he will look at everything that happens on the battlefield of ...
India’s D Gukesh recently won the World Chess Championship that took place in Singapore. He defeated China’s Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in the title clash after 14 games. Gukesh also became the youngest and ...
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