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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...Playhouse, London More national soul-searching is on the agenda for Holly Race Roughan’s intense, stripped-down version of Henry V....
...Bobby Fischer in 1975 renounced his Fide championship title, and then retired apart from a brief comeback in 1992....
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...Puzzle 2489 Gata Kamsky v Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires 1994. The all-time No1 woman was doubly threatened with immediate checkmate by 1 d8=Q mate or 1 Qf8 mate....
...Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007. Black, the future double world title challenger, to move and force mate. Click here for solution...
...Serious Californian money is backing this boy, as American enthusiasts still remember the glory years of Bobby Fischer. 2466 Monika Socko v Marina Guseva, European women’s championship 2005....
...Puzzle 2467 Laszlo Szabo v Ludek Pachman, Marianske Lazne 1954. White to move and win. More than one move works, but White found the quickest route. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2445 Nigel Short v Nils Grandelius., Malmo 2017. What is White’s winning move? Short chose 1 Bb4? and only drew. Click here for solution...
...He becomes the third youngest Candidate ever, after Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen at 15 in 1958 and 2005, and a few weeks younger than Boris Spassky in 1955....
...The Yorkshireman, 34, won the board three silver medal with 5.5/7, repeating his result from the 2019 world teams. 2446 Hou Yifan v James Jackson, Isle of Man 2016. White to move and win....
...A Carlsen v Firouzja series for the global crown in around 2025 is already a plausible forecast....
...Puzzle 2415 Volodar Murzin v Nurgyul Salimova, Julius Baer Tour 2021. What was Black's winning move? Click here for solution...
...It was all sparked by the 1972 Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match, which even now in the age of Carlsen remains an enduring landmark. Puzzle 2393 Bu Xiangzhi v Gawain Jones, Hengshui 2019....
...The charity’s ambassadors include Bobby Seagull, the celebrity maths teacher who shot to fame battling Eric Monkman on television’s University Challenge....
...Last week’s $150,000 US Championship, played online and organised by America’s chess centre at St Louis, ended with its winner, Wesley So, harking back to Bobby Fischer’s brilliant performances in the 1960s...
...From Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky 1972 to The Queen's Gambit 2020, chess has had two impressive but contrasting booms half a century apart....
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