CHESS CORNER: What could possibly go wrong?
The self-destruction of the Austrian army in 1788 caused Austria to lose the Battle of Karansebes to the Turks. Karansebes is in modern day Romania. Austrian soldiers mistook each other for the enemy, ...
The greatest match that never was — when Fischer and Karpov didn’t meet
The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.
India’s Pranav fits the mold as new world junior chess champ
In a rare double unlikely to be replicated, the new world chess champion is an 18-year-old grandmaster from the Indian city ...
Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 152 years
In 1929 and 1930, the Cambridge top board lost his queen very early, once to a knight fork and then to a bishop pin. Matches ...
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Prague Chess Masters: Aravindh routs Giri to grab sole lead
Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram crashed through the defenses of super-solid Anish Giri to jump in to sole lead after the end of the seventh round of Prague Masters.
India's Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh Chithambaram continue to share top spot at Prague Masters
R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram drew their respective games in the sixth round of the Prague Masters Chess ...
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Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh in joint lead in Prague Masters
Indian chess grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram continued to remain in joint lead after drawing their sixth-round games in the Prague Masters Chess tournament.
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Boris Spassky, endlessly witty and a free soul, was more than just Fischer’s victim or a Soviet Union foot soldier
By the 15th move, Larsen has an additional rook and a knight on the board. And yet ... the man who dared George Bush to put him and Bobby Fischer in same cell, ‘and give us a chess set’ The rest of ...
Embracing the underdog role, Booker High School girls basketball team in Class 4A state semis
In his five years as Booker head coach, Ty Bryant has compiled a record of 92-42; his Tornadoes lost last season to Lakewood in the regional finals.