Let's go back to the beginning of chess history: Board games have been played in India for thousands of years. Near the turn of the first millennium, a popular dice game emerged in which multiple players raced their pieces around an 8 x 8 grid called an ashtapada board. Around the same...
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The medalists of the 44th Chess Olympiad (L to R) - Georgia (Silver), Ukraine (Gold) and India (Bronze) | Photo: FIDE/Lennart OotesBut this time, it was fortunate for us because I wouldn't say that we were leading the tournament and everything went smoothly. It was quite...
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So that’s what we want to do. What I want to talk about today is about governance. Over time, what occurs is people get used to corruption. You get used to evil and it’s very and it creeps on you in very powerful ways that a lot of people don’t even understand. Just set yo...
With such a high prize money is at stake, you are bound to get strong players participating in your event. The organizers decided to implement a rating cut off of 2400 and above (there were also B and C category tournaments) and drew 73 players from 15 countries to take part in the A...
Cross 2000 elo mark in the May 2017 FIDE rating list. Every night before bed time, I’d do the mental movie visualization. It was a trick I had learned from the book – The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy. ...
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Antonio Angel Gil Suarez, Sevilla, (Spain): Garry Kasparov. He keeps winning and bashing all the other players in fair head-to-head contest. Ah, and keeps saying aloud that FIDE is wrong! Anheru: 1. Pocket Fritz at last PDA users can play against a strong pocket player. ...
When he finished primary school, he spent the following year traveling across Europe to play chess, collecting multiple accolades and eventually earning the top spot in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rating list in 2010. “Growing up, I always had to play against stronger players than...