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Chess
Chess: Half a century on, Fischer v Spassky at Reykjavik still echoes
...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
March 11, 2024
Chess
World No 1 v world champion: Carlsen and Ding to meet this weekend
...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
February 5, 2024
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FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
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Saturday, 10 May 2025The REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Chess
World champion crushed in freestyle chess
...It was originally called Fischer Random after its inventor, then Chess 960 or Chess 9LX after the number of possible starting positions....
February 15, 2024
Chess
Carlsen and Buettner announce Freestyle Chess Tour for top players
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
March 18, 2024
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...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...
March 27, 2024
Chess
India’s Gukesh, 17, is youngest ever Candidates winner
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Chess
Hans Niemann playing in London this week amid new controversy
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
December 4, 2023
Chess
Magnus Carlsen wins another two world championships
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
January 2, 2024
Chess
Chess: Magnus Carlsen is level against Indian teenager in World Cup final
...He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer....
August 22, 2023
Chess
Michael Adams wins eighth British title at 51 as young guns fall short
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
July 31, 2023
Chess
Carlsen loses with the Polish Defence to a Pole in Warsaw
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
May 22, 2023
Chess
John Nunn wins World 65-plus Championship in golden year for England seniors
...2022 has proved a vintage year for English senior chess, half a century after the Fischer v Spassky match which triggered a global boom and, for a while, made England the world No2 chess nation behind the...
November 28, 2022
Chess
Carlsen will not defend world championship in 2023
...Bobby Fischer in 1975 renounced his Fide championship title, and then retired apart from a brief comeback in 1992....
July 20, 2022
Chess
England over-50s win European gold
...The period between the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 and the fall of the Berlin Wall was uniquely productive for English chess....
November 9, 2022
Chess
Carlsen resigns after just one move in Niemann rematch
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
September 20, 2022
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The Impact Of Gen AI On The Legal Sector
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Tuesday, 11 JuneDigital Conference
Chess
Chess: Firouzja wins in St Louis while Niemann ‘cheating’ saga rumbles on
...Puzzle 2486 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. The position appears completely blocked, but there is a hidden route through Black’s defences....
September 13, 2022
Chess
Niemann likely cheated more than 100 times online, says report
...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....
October 5, 2022
Chess
Chess arrives free in Trafalgar Square next Sunday
...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...
July 11, 2022
Chess
France’s Firouzja leads four teens with eyes on Carlsen’s crown
...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....
April 19, 2022
Chess
Chess: Firouzja, 18, becomes third youngest world title candidate after Carlsen and Fischer
...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....
November 8, 2021
Chess
Magnus Carlsen plays 1 f3 in tournament game
...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...
April 27, 2022
Chess
Chess: high stakes in next week’s Carlsen v Nepo world title match
...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...
November 15, 2021
Chess
Chess: Carlsen plans early strike as world championship starts this weekend
...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....
November 22, 2021
Chess
Carlsen grinds to victory in Norway while Firouzja, 18, surges into world top 10
...A Carlsen v Firouzja series for the global crown in around 2025 is already a plausible forecast....
September 20, 2021
Chess
Chess: India’s ‘new Vishy Anand’, 15, qualifies to take on world champion Carlsen
...Puzzle 2415 Volodar Murzin v Nurgyul Salimova, Julius Baer Tour 2021. What was Black's winning move? Click here for solution...
April 12, 2021

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