标签: Chess
Chess: Fabiano Caruana trails at US championship and loses world No 2 spot
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After seven of the 11 rounds at the $194,000 (£141,522) US championship in St Louis, which finishes on Monday, Aleksandr Lenderman, Samuel Sevian and the defending champion Wesley So shared the lead on 4.5/7. This clo...
Fide sparks anger with ‘gross’ breast enlargement sponsor for women’s chess
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For a sport that has struggled to attract female players, the news that chess has just agreed the biggest ever sponsorship deal for the women’s game would usually be universally welcomed. But the decision of chess’s g...
Chess: Carlsen wins in Norway and grinds in 91 moves before $2m match
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As November’s 14-game, $2米 2021 world championship match in Dubai approaches, Norway’s title holder, Magnus Carlsen, is continuing his busy tournament and media schedule, while his Russian challenger, Ian Nepomniachtc...
Soviet chess champion sues Netflix over ‘sexist’ Queen’s Gambit
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The female Soviet chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for $5m for a line in its hit series The Queen’s Gambit that claimed she “never played men”, calling the assertion “grossly sexist and belittling”....
Chess: Russia capture Olympiad gold, edging weakened US team 7-5
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Russia’s highly rated squad won gold at last week’s 150-nation online Olympiad, yet the US silver medal team could argue that they were moral victors. Playing without all their top stars, the Americans were defeated b...
Chess: Firouzja checkmates Carlsen in mid-board at Aimchess US Rapid
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Alireza Firouzja, 在 18 the world’s best teenage chess player and in the eyes of many the heir apparent to Magnus Carlsen’s global crown, surged again this week as he reached the semi-final of the Aimchess US Rapid, c...
Chess: Vachier-Lagrave edges US rivals in St Louis amid glut of draws
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 30, France’s top player and the world No 10, edged out three US rivals by half a point on Thursday night to capture the $90,000 first prize at America’s most important international event, 这 ...
Chess: Nakamura swaps barbs with Carlsen after 27-game unbeaten run
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Hikaru Nakamura, the five-time US champion, has a flourishing online presence with more than a million followers to his Twitch stream, where he demonstrates his high-level skills while passing on expressively phrased ...
Chess: Keith Arkell captures online British title after rival is disqualified
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Keith Arkell became online British champion at age 60 in controversial circumstances last weekend when the popular grandmaster from Paignton, Devon, scored 7.5/9 in the nine-day contest to finish a full point clear of...
Chess: Carlsen knocked out of World Cup semi as Poland’s Duda emerges
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Magnus Carlsen has never won the biennial World Cup knockout, and the No 1 was eliminated in Tuesday’s semi-finals of its $190,000 2021 renewal in Sochi. Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda, 23, again proved himself a nemesis...
Chess: Carlsen eases into World Cup semi, but Esipenko is emerging star
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Magnus Carlsen has never won the $1.9m World Cup, and his early exit at his last attempt in 2017 still rankles. Despite a few early hiccups, it was soon clear that the 2021 version of the 206-player knockout was made ...
Lockdown reawakened my childhood love of chess. Now I can’t do anything else
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Lord help me, I am in the whirlwind throes of the beautiful game. Online chess. The ancient pastime enjoyed a boom late last year. And I got caught squarely in its blast. Chess.com, the internet’s leading chess platfo...
Chess: Garry Kasparov loses in seven moves as comeback proves a disaster
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Garry Kasparov, still the all-time No 1 in the eyes of many chess fans, suffered one of the worst moments of his career at the weekend when the former world champion, now aged 58, attempted a cameo comeback at the Zag...
Chess: Carlsen loses three in a row twice as champion heads for World Cup
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Magnus Carlsen suffered a rare double setback last weekend when the world champion twice lost three games in a row at the $100,000 Goldmoney Asian Rapid. The defeats occurred in his losing semi-final against the world...
Trump exposed as prosecutors make first move in high-stakes chess game
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Michael Cohen sounded giddy on the latest episode of his podcast, Mea Culpa. 艾伦·魏塞尔伯格, a key lieutenant to Donald Trump, Cohen’s former boss, was about to be charged alongside Trump’s company with tax fraud. ...
Chess: 12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra breaks youngest grandmaster record
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One of the most enduring chess records, Sergey Karjakin as the youngest grandmaster ever at 12 years seven months, was finally broken on Wednesday afternoon. Abhimanyu Mishra, from Englishtown, New Jersey, US, 谁是...