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Rematch: release date, cast, plot and everything we know about the chess drama
Rematch is a Disney Plus drama series to rival The Queen's Gambit as Christian Cooke plays chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
Chess legend Magnus Carlsen recreates 26-piece position after looking at board for just two seconds
Not only did Magnus Carlsen recreate the 26-piece position perfectly after looking at the board from a game that was played ...
Ten teens who are taking over the world (of sport)
After Lamine Yamal starred in the Champions League semi-final, we look at other teenagers who are close to the pinnacle of ...
Meet Eugene Torre, the pioneering Asian GM who beat Karpov and befriended Fischer
A trailblazer for chess in the continent, Torre changed perceptions by proving he could compete against the world’s best in ...
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Checkmate Against Tyranny: Kasparov’s Battle Beyond the Chessboard
Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, once the dominant force of ... youngest ever Soviet National Champion in 1978 and the World Chess Champion in 1985 at just 22 years old. His hyper-aggressive yet ...
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Ukraine needs a circuit-breaker
Donald Trump’s rare rebuke of Vladimir Putin after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome on Saturday is hopefully a sign the US President finally is beginning to see where culpability clearly lies for ...
What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?
One of the earliest and most influential examples of artificial intelligence was Christopher Strachey's draughts (checkers) ...
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In era of teen prodigies, Vasly Ivanchuk, 56-year-old winner of Menorca Open, still has endless passion for chess
In an era where the world is smitten with teenage chess prodigies, spare a thought for Vasyl Ivanchuk ... Anand confronted many mercurial opponents like the glowering Garry Kasparov or the antsy ...