Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
Indian chess stars criticise government's decision to stop cash rewards: 'Awards are lifeline for promising players'
The Indian government’s decision to stop cash rewards for players who achieve Grandmaster or International Master titles ...
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
Russian-born chess grandmaster ... for the players were such that you couldn’t compare it with the tournaments in the West,” Sosonko recalls. “They had carte blanche in all restaurants ...
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Team Liquid Signs Magnus Carlsen to Form Chess Esports Superteam
This move comes just 24 hours after Liquid signed America's youngest chess Grandmaster and the third-highest rated player of all-time ... This goes for both the players as well as spectators ...
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"Welcome the GOAT of Chess" - Magic Johnson thrilled as Magnus Carlsen joins $440 million esports powerhouse Team Liquid
Earlier in the same day, Team Liquid also onboarded the third-highest-rated chess player of all time, Fabiano Caruana ... an exclusive group of just eight players in NBA history to have achieved ...
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Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Everyone agrees it’s an exciting time for chess ... “We have all the microphones and the cameras and so on to look into the brains of the best chess players of the world.” ...