Chess with Errol

72nd Cannes Film Festival - Photocall for the manga "Blitz" - Cannes, France, May 18, 2019. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov poses. (Reuters photo)
72nd Cannes Film Festival – Photocall for the manga “Blitz” – Cannes, France, May 18, 2019. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov poses. (Reuters photo)

Ex-world chess No.1 Kasparov added to Russian ‘terrorists and extremists’ list

LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.

Shazeeda Rahim (right) opposing Nellisha Johnson at the Grand Prix
Shazeeda Rahim (right) opposing Nellisha Johnson at the Grand Prix

Sandiford and Rahim to the max

National junior chess champion Keron Sandiford made a bold statement two Thursday nights ago when he won the first Century 21 Grand Prix tournament of 2024.

Loris Nathoo playing in the 2023 Guyana National Chess Championship

A Benko Gambit gamble

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

Chess sets donated

As the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) continues to roll out its school chess manoeuvres, overseas-based Guyanese Raymond Singh, a former 1980s GCF champion, has donated 2,000 chess sets to Guyana to use in the school system.

The Kasparov vs Karpov saga

In the 1980s, Garry Kasparov was taking the world by storm which reminds me of a time in the 1920s when Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba was beating everyone in chess.

The London duel

Last week I mentioned the fact that two world chess championships were held in September 1993 which was unusual and unprecedented.

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