The long road to ‘Gold’By Malinda SeneviratneSunday, 24 August 2014 00:00Tromso Chess Olympiad 2014 It’s a long way from Colombo to Tromso. Indeed, a few years ago none who undertook the journey to the distant fishing ‘village’ in the northern part of Norway would have heard the name. That is, not until FIDE, the world […]
Indian success in Abu Dhabi
Gujrathi holds Kryvoruchko; Karthikeyan beats AreshchenkoABU DHABI, AUG 24: Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi kept himself in joint lead following a come-from-behind draw with second seed Yuriy Kryvoruchko of Ukraine in the fourth round of Abu Dhabi Masters chess tournament now underway here. After settling for his first draw in four games, Gujrathi remained in shared […]
Chess: Exhilarating and Fun
Shelby Lyman on Chess: Exhilarating and Fun 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 Wolfgang Goethe. The game, […]
Mistaken identity?
Dear Editor, Taffin Khan being a member of the Guyana chess team slated to play in the Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway, applied to the Netherlands Embassy in Suriname for a Schengen visa. He was told that his name and date of birth were a match for one on an al Qaida terrorist watch list […]
Four players share first place at Split Chess Open 2014
The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation organized the fourth edition of Split Chess Open 2014 from 16th to 23rd August 2014 at Hotel Zagreb in Split, the second-largest city in Croatia, situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. The 9-round Swiss event with a prize fund of 8.500 […]
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