In the 1850s, the London-made Staunton chess set became the most popular style of chessboard and was adopted for the first official World Chess Championship (the first international chess tournament) in 1886, between Wilhelm Steinitz of Austria and Johannes Zukertort of Poland. There had been un...
Rasmussen played under the screen name"THAY3R"onPokerStarsand other online poker sites beginning in the mid-2000s and through the 2010s. Among the Floridian's online accomplishments was winning aWorld Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP)title in 2015 bytaking downa $530 buy-in 6-Max Shootou...
In the early hours on the very first day of 2020, the world had already said a final farewell to two celebrities — a troubled soul known for dark times, his demons and his connection with the death of a beloved late celebrity's child, and a promising hip-hop ingenue gone too soon. ...
Up front it was Fiat as well, Paolo Niccolini won the event in a Fiat 120 HP. This amazing hillclimb event centred on the village of Consuma, 35km east of Florence, was first held in 1902 and has existed with a few hiccoughs along the way to the present, as an historic meeting ...
Gaprindashvili herself was quite content to play out all her matches, even when she had already won the tournament. As a matter of principle. When she won her first world championship, she was immediately invited to an international chess tournament in Hastings, England, after which invitations...
The cut-throat world of championship chess was firmly in the spotlight in Columbo Season 2 spectacular The Most Dangerous Match, which featured Laurence Harvey as borderline insane Grand Master Emmett Clayton. Here are my top 5 episode highlights… The Columbo stars we lost in 2018 29 Guest ...
#8. The Queen's Gambit (2020) - IMDb user rating: 8.7 - Votes: 161,949 Anya Taylor-Joy (“Peaky Blinders” and “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”) stars as orphan Beth Harmon, who emerges as a chess prodigy at 9 years old. Once adopted, she enters the chess championship circu...
Recently, he even won the Colorado Scholastic Championship! What an inspirational young man! (1) The underlined word "one" refers to "___" in the first paragraph. A . a chess match B . Griffin McConnell C . a brain operation D . Griffin's child (2) Griffin McConnell has been pla...
Another Bay Area tennis notable, Rosie Casals, went to San Francisco’s Washington High School, honing her skills on the recently demolished Golden Gate Park tennis courts. She was a multiple Grand Slam doubles title holder during the ’60s and ’70s, primarily won with doubles part...
The super-grandmaster Ian Nepomniatchi sat down with Chess.com ahead of his appearance in the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship, where he will go head-to-head with Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and the world champion Magnus Carlsen. Nepomnia