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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 ...
Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen: The Freestylist
Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new ...
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Exposed: The links between world chess and Russia's war machine
Kasparov, the six-time world champion and Russian dissident, highlighted how Dvorkovich has repeatedly used chess diplomacy ...
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 ...
Freestyle Chess takes centre-stage in quick time, gives FIDE plenty of reasons to ponder over future
With some of the world’s best players in action, Freestyle Chess has been dominating the conversation so far in 2025, having ...
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India's Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, becomes youngest-ever world chess champion
The 18-year-old from the southeast Indian city of Chennai's FIDE World Chess Championship win means he's surpassed Garry Kasparov's record set in in 1985, when the Russian grandmaster won the ...