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World Amateur Team Chess Championship 2016
The World Amateur Team Chess Championship 2016 will be held in Kaunas, the second largest city of Lithuania, from 20 November 2016 (the Opening ceremony & Round 1) to 28 November 2016 (the Final round & the Closing ceremony). Official...
2016 FIDE World Chess Championship has new sponsor
MOSCOW, August 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — On the eve of the World Chess Championship match scheduled for 11-30 November in New York City, PhosAgro (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, announces...
Big hope for Gold for Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan pins great hopes on its chess grandmasters By Amina Nazarli The Azerbaijani chess teams will show high scores at the 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku. Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov made the remark on August 31 at...
Special Baku Chess Olympiad Stamp
Baku, August 31, AZERTAC “Azermarka” LLC of the Ministry of Communication and High Technologies continues its tradition of releasing postage stamps dedicated to remarkable events. The press service of the Baku Chess Olympiad reports that the newly-released series of...
5th seed Indian Women’s Team feeling confident in Baku
Indian women’s chess team confident of Olympiad medal Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 16:38 [IST] Chennai, Aug 31: The fifth-seeded Indian women’s chess team, spearheaded by World No.5 Grandmaster (GM) Harika Dronavalli, is confident of putting up a good...
Kann man Kinder zu Genies erziehen?
English version: https://chessdailynews.com/bringing-up-genius Schlau Gemacht Kann man Kinder zu Genies erziehen? László Polgár hats versucht. Seine Töchter wurden die besten Schachspielerinnen der Welt. Von Paul Voosen Das Magazin N°34 – 27. August 2016 Noch bevor László Polgár seine spätere Frau...
The Waiter Who Turned Chess Champion
THE SERVANT WHO BEAT HIS MASTERS AT CHESS — THEN DISAPPEARED By Libby Coleman American chess giant Reuben Fine was excited to meet the man he considered “the great chess master,” Mir Sultan Khan, on his 1933 visit to...
Would you compete for $1 million?
Would you enter a chess tournament where 1st prize is $1 million, no entry fee, and any player can win? Yes, only if it is over the board Yes, only if it is online Yes, it doesn’t matter if...
TCEC rapid starting soon with 32 engines
The Top Chess Engines Championship, the strongest round robin event in chess history, is currently close to the end of the Candidates stage. The top two chess software programs are going to advance to the Superfinal, where they will...