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2012 World Mind Games (Beijing, China)
The 2012 World Minds Sports Games in progress in Beijing, China. This unique tournament will feature five sports including bridge, go, draughts, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and international chess. This tournament features an number of top players in each of these mind sports competing in different categories. For chess, it will…
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Carlsen reaches new heights!
Magnus Carlsen broke the all-time ELO record. Photo by Ray Morris Hill. The latest story in chess comes out of London as Magnus Carlsen has officially broke the rating record that Garry Kasparov had held for some 13 years. There were immediately questions of whether Carlsen would break 2900, but…
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2012 London Chess Classic
Despite last year’s accomplishment of fielding four 2800-rated players the London Chess Classic begins and will boast its strongest tournament ever in its 2012 edition. Magnus Carlsen will headline the field and be accompanied by Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik and World Champion, Viswanathan Anand. It gets better. US Champion Hikaru…
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“Brooklyn Castle” showing October 19th!!
If you have followed the “Brooklyn Castle” story here, it was a two-year project in the making by a wife-and-husband team of Katie and Nelson Dellamaggiore. Here was their inspiration… WHY THIS STORY? In 2007, we came across an article in the New York Times about a super-talented chess player…
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Hip-Hop Chess documentary!
“I’m not a chess whiz. I’m not a chess master. I’m just a guy who loves chess. What I’m pulling off of it philosophically is my strength.” ~Adisa Banjoko, Hip Hop Chess Federation Adisa Banjoko with one of his students, Dyhemia Young. Young came from difficult circumstances and discovered chess…
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Kasparov beaten up… again!
Kasparov being roughed up by Russian Police. Former World Champion Garry Kasparov was manhandled by Russian police officers during a protest of the Pussy Riot trial. Kasparov was not officially taking part in the protest, but his fame preceded him in more ways that one. He has become notorious…
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Chicago’s Ron Washington, 1951-2012
Chicago has lost another chess personality. Ronald “Ron” Washington, 61, died on Friday, July 27th after being pulled from Lake Michigan fully clothed in an apparent drowning. Washington was apparently swept into the water and caught in a rip current. He was found a few hundred feet from the North…
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