Looking to make some new moves in 2023, the newly resurrected UW-Whitewater Chess Club might be just the thing. In the past, UW-Whitewater has fielded a student org led Chess Club, and even sent a team to the National Collegate Championship Tournament. However, with the graduation of many of the key members in combination with …
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Iranian chess player Sara Khadem said she still hopes to represent Iran after competing without a headscarf in an international tournament. Iran has produced some of the world’s best chess players, but some have opted to play for other countries when national decisions began to affect their performance. Alireza Firouzja, 19, now plays for France …
An Iranian chess player who fled to Spain after she took part in an international tournament without the mandatory hijab said Sunday she is “not myself” when she wears the headscarf. In December Sara Khadem, 25, appeared without a hijab — which is compulsory for women under Iranian law — at the International Chess Federation …
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The doors open at 7 pm Monday and the room fills up pretty fast, with players taking up positions at any of the 48 tables each equipped with a chess board and pieces as well as a clock displaying the game time. There’s a lot of chit-chat as regulars catch up but by the time …
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Antoinette-Marie Williams gave Emmett Daniels a run for his money when they first met over a chess game two years ago. It has since led the two eagerly awaiting for the other’s presence, so they can be partners and play again. “The first day we played, we were kindred spirits,” she tells me as we …
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Lausanne, January 19, 2023 The FIDE World Championship 2023 is due to take place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from April 7th to May 1st. A new World Champion will be crowned, as Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren will battle to seize the throne left vacant by Magnus Carlsen’s withdrawal The General Partner of the event, which …
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A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were “not chess pieces, they were humans”. Responding to revelations in Harry’s new memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, Anas Haqqani, a senior aid to the interior minister, tweeted: “Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, …
Pragg and So join the chasing pack Out of the 14 games played on Saturday in the Masters and Challengers combined, 10 finished decisively, the highest number so far in this year’s edition of the Tata Steel Chess festival. Once all was said and done at the Dorpshuis de Moriaan Hall in Wijk aan Zee, …
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GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov was one of four winners in the seventh round of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament and moved to 5.5/7 after scoring his fourth win of the event over GM Arjun Erigaisi on Saturday. The 18-year-old was joined in the winner’s circle by GMs Magnus Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa R., and Wesley So, with …
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4th National Executive Chess Championship on February 4 By Marlon BernardinoPhilBoxing.comSun, Jan 22, 2023 MANILA—COUNTRY’s up and coming chess players will test each other’s mettle in the fourth leg of the National Executive Chess Championship-North Luzon Leg, which reels off on February 4 at the Activity Center, Marquee Mall in Angeles City, Pampanga. At stake …
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