NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Heres a story about a rising chess star in Queens. Shes only 12 years old, but is already excelling at the game. And as CBS2s Kiran Dhillon reported, the youngster says her love for the game has helped her through the coronavirus pandemic
Continue ReadingWritten by Nihal Koshie, Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: April 5, 2021 7:50:06 am Online chess has boomed during the pandemic and so has cheating by players who sit in remote locations. The latest scandal was at the international bodys (FIDE) online university tournament where the winner, a former Ukrainian womens champion, was disqualified and so were 19 others
Continue ReadingA total of 20 participants of the women's rapid tournament of the FIDE World University Online Chess Championship were disqualified by the tournament's Fair Play Panel, although it stated that there was no proof of actual cheating. One player was stripped of her world titlea decision that has been questioned on social media and countered by a separate investigation.
Continue ReadingAfter spending time with an old chess friend, she goes to Ohio and accomplishes partial success in the U.S. Championships and gets invited to New York with the other champion.
Continue ReadingOnline chessparticularly faster games including blitz and speed chesshas seen rapid growth in interest and participation because of the pandemic and the popularity of Netflixs The Queens Gambit series. According to Forbes, Chess.com had 1.5 million new subscribers in the spring of 2020, compared with just 670,000 in January 2020
Continue ReadingThis is the hathi, the elephant. My father held a strange wooden figurine between his earth-brown fingers as we sat cross-legged on the ground. He placed the hathi on the checkered board between us and slid it gently over the boards surface.
Continue ReadingThe winners from the SFDeizisau were not the only Germans playing in the final phase of the European Club Cup. Also playingwas the Hamburger SK,Karsten Mllers club.
Continue ReadingLast week started a look at the game of chess with Vlad Drkulec, President of the Chess Federation of Canada, which now continues. For context, I asked if Drkulec played other games Othello, Go, Hive, etc. with a passion equal to chess
Continue ReadingOne looks in vain for French players in the lineup of the French club Clichy Echecs 92.
Continue ReadingGuildford are unbeaten in Britains national league, the 4NCL, for over eight years, scoring 81 wins and two draws and dominating opponents.
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