In 1972, Fischer and Spassky played the match that captivated the entire world, even people who knew nothing about chess. This was not only viewed as the most anticipated world chess championship event of all time, but it had great geo-political ramifications as well. The US and Soviet Unio...
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...
Read all about it in Jeff Sonas' World Championship Statistics. Putting his money where his stats are 11.11.2003 We hope you've been keeping up with statistician Jeff Sonas' fascinating series of articles on man-machine chess. After looking at computer ratings, human playing styles, openings,...
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...
Just like last year, there is a large gap between the two players who have participated in the World Chess Championship match (Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand), and everyone else. The total estimated prize winnings of the world’s top-ten chess players has increased from $5,360,000 to...
‘Graded drivers’ – in essence and summary, drivers who had scored points twice in the Top Six of a Grand Prix in the previous two years, and the World, F2, Indy, and Can Am Champs of the previous year – were ineligible for Euro F2 championship points. In 1970 Rindt won at Thruxt...
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 ...
By the age of seventeen, Ivey was already a frequent and well-known guest at Atlantic City casinos. When he was of the right age, he started moving in the direction of being a professional. And he moved fast. Until today, Ivey has won 10 WSOP bracelets and one World Poker Tour title...
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...
“As for the 2017 Women's World Chess Championship in Iran, I decided not to take part in it, since Iran is obviously not a suitable country for such a prestigious competition. It is so wrong that those chess players, who refuse to go to Iran and to wear the hijab, simply lose the...