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State funding made chess a Cold War game. It could make a comeback.
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn the summer of 1972, Henry Kissinger made a clandestine phone call. President Richard M. Nixon's...
How Magnus Carlsen went from the world's best chess player to refusing to defend his title after...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMagnus Carlsen of Norway competes against Daniil Dubov of Russia on January 16, 2020 in Eindhoven,...
Chess's largest website says Hans Niemann cheated in more than 100 games after investigation
Yahoo Sports· 2 years agoIn the eyes of the world's top chess player, 19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is a...
A Cheating Scandal Has Rocked the Chess World. The 'Chess Detective' Is on the Case
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoProfessor Kenneth Regan inside a classroom at the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and...
She Might Have Inspired One of Netflix’s Biggest Shows. She Died Last Month. No One Wrote About It.
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn May 1961, Lisa Lane was a contestant on the long-running CBS game show What’s My Line? Wearing a...
Antiques: There's no chess without the pieces
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter all that turkey and eggnog these past few days, you might be like me: sitting around and barely able to move. The gifts have been opened, the...
Did the Hand of God that helped a chess grandmaster, or did artificial intelligence? | Michael Arace
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoClear some space on the list of “biggest scandals in sports history,” maybe somewhere between the 1919 Black Sox and Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup. The chess world ...
Waldwick national chess champ Joel Benjamin invited to St. Louis tournament, again
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWALDWICK — Joel Benjamin will again compete in the U.S. Chess Senior Championship, an invitation-only tournament he played four times and won once. He played and won virtually during the pandemic ...
Real-life 'The Queen's Gambit': Maine custodian leads school chess teams
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHAMPDEN, Maine (AP) — David Bishop spends the school day as a mild-mannered custodian, but before...
What’s holding Minnesota kids’ attention these days? Surprise, it’s chess.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe volunteers tried to shush the students huddled over chess boards recently in a Minneapolis...