China spring historic surprise with gold medals at Tromso OlympiadLeonard BardenThe Guardian, Friday 15 August 2014 11.17 EDT China’s gold medals at the 174-nation Tromso Olympiad were a historic moment. Its team halved with the top seeds Russia and Ukraine but beat their other main rivals in an emphatic triumph. Yu Yangyi, 20, was their […]
Gold medal for Truong Son of Vietnam

Sports — Vietnamese chess grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son made an exceptional finish to the 41st World Chess Olympiad in Norway on Thursday as he claimed the gold medal on Board 2 with an 11-game unbeaten run. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese men’s team, with 14 points following five wins, four draws and two losses, ranked 27th […]
Microcosm of life

Chess / By Shelby Lymanon August 16, 2014 – 12:01 AM Chess is a microcosm of life. The centrality of the decision-making process has resulted in the game being described as “the gymnasium of the mind” by observers as disparate as Blaise Pascal and Vladimir Lenin, and as the “touchstone of the intellect” by Johann […]
Room for improvement

RI women in 61st place at Chess OlympiadThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sports | Sat, August 16 2014, 11:55 AM The Indonesian women’s chess team, which had initially excelled in the games, ended up ignominiously in 61st place among 136 participating countries at the Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway, while their countrymen finished in 43rd […]
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Checkmate Tactic

White to move and checkmate in ….. Can you solve it in less than 30 seconds? 7q/1Pp5/K1k5/8/2BPN3/8/7p/n6n w – – 0 2 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
No more tears

No more tears for youngest masterYoung chess master keeps her cool Last updated 09:43 16/08/2014 Wellington chess player Layla Timergazi used to cry when she lost – now she rarely loses at all. The 13-year-old has just picked up the Women’s World Chess Federation master title after winning six and drawing two of her 10 […]
The physically taxing sport of chess

Two Dead at Chess Olympiad in NorwayI know what you’re thinking, but yes, you read that right. 2014 has been a strange year for chess-related deathsAuthor: Brian FeldmanPosted: 08/15/14 11:40 EDT The claim that chess is a physically taxing sport gained a lot more credence this week when two people straight-up, for-real died during the […]
Sinquefield Cup 2014 – Strongest Chess Tournament in History

The 2014 Sinquefield Cup will be the highest-rated tournament in the history of chess, bringing six of the world’s top-nine Grandmasters together at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Last year, the inaugural super-tournament thrilled spectators as the strongest chess competition ever held on U.S. soil. For its 2014 encore, beginning August […]
Padmini Rout wins Gold in Tromso

Chennai: China annexed the Chess Olympiad gold medal in Norway while India captured the bronze crushing Uzbekistan 3.5-0.5 on Thursday. It was the first time India has won a medal in the Chess Olympiad. Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout won the gold medal while Grandmaster K. Sasikiran took home the silver medal. China defeated Poland 3-1 […]