After five games of the 14-round Candidates Chess Tournament, the 25-year-old Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin had accumulated a total of 3½ points (a win = 1 point, a draw = ½ point; a loss = 0).
The electronic chess competition which will determine a challenger for world champion Magnus Carlsen began on Friday in Moscow.
The 2016 World Chess Championship title match would be held in New York.
“The way chess is played is often a reflection of society and current cultural trends.
Playing chess is like having psychic powers. We look deep into the game and figure out what our opponents are going to do, before they actually do it.
Following a lacklustre 2015, chess is off to a great start this year.
The World Chess Federation has begun its 2016 calendar of events with an impressive programme.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is called the ‘Wimbledon of Chess’, and is currently happening in Wijk aan Zee in Holland.
In chess we play the same game over and over again.
A beleaguered local chess federation, failing in its ability to organize a national junior chess championship and its senior counterpart, in addition to two national school chess championships over the past two years, seems to be stirring some reaction among our youthful precocious chess minds.
“Good morning and Happy New Year to all!” Good morning to the Guyana Chess Federation and friends of chess.
“Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.” – The first line of a speech delivered by US President Lyndon B Johnson in Washington, DC, on March 31, 1968.
School of the Nations University student Jessica Clementson, 20, harboured a significant thought ever since she learnt to play chess as a modest teenage girl.
President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has transferred the powers of his office to Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos following the announcement that the US Treasury had placed him on a blacklist.
The United States has imposed sanctions against President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and former Russian regional governor Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, owing to his alleged assistance to the government of Syria.
The European Team Chess Championships remain the world’s third most pre-eminent team tournament.
There is no exaggeration in stating that the ever-evolving chess nation, India, came away from the 2015 World Youth and Cadets Chess Championships in Porto Carras, Greece, the absolute victors of the rigorous youth chess festival.
The exclusive World Youth and Cadet Chess Championships in Greece, came to a conclusion on Friday.
“Once every four years the world goes to war. They call it the games.”
“My citizenship is within me. I drank it with my mother’s milk.
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