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Garry Kasparov, the 13th world chess champion, being interviewed by world-famous grandmaster commentator Maurice Ashley recently at the New York Athletic Club. Kasparov was hosting a gala reception to mark the 15th anniversary of the renowned Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF). The KCF curriculum programme provides public, private and home schoolers with instructional books to assist with mastering the game. The three-volume book set is in use by more than 3,500 schools across the 50 states in the US, as well as in a number of other countries. (Photo: Derrick Bryant)

Reason, intelligence and chess

Chess is associated with reason and intelligence. It is bonded to logic and order. When chess is described as a violent game, it is done so artistically. We

One of the world’s leading experts in Artificial Intelligence and the CEO of Deep Mind Demis Hassabis recently met students of the UCL Academy, Camden, a secondary school that is sponsored by the University College London. During his visit, Hassabis, a master chess player, contested six simultaneous games against students of the Academy (in photo) who engaged the Fritz computer programme for assistance. Deep Mind’s ground-breaking work included the development of AlphaGo which defeated the Go world champion in 2016. (Photo: John Saunders)

Chess and education are a match made in heaven

I share the belief that chess is becoming essentially popular among youths in developing nations. It

There are endless benefits to children learning chess

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic.”

World chess champion and Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 26, sits at the pinnacle of the chess world in Elo points. In the November 2017 FIDE Elo list which ranks chess players according to numbers, Carlsen has a total of 2837 points, 36 more than the number 2 ranked chess player in the world. Carlsen will defend his world title in November 2018. (Photo: Alina L’Ami)

World’s chess table tops line up for next year’s Candidates matches

Ever since the 1960s, the Candidates chess matches and subsequently the chess tournaments, have been recognized as definitive and contentious battles.

Targeting youth moves chess in right direction

The recent Berbice Inter-Schools Chess Championship coincided with the first Jamaican International Chess Festival.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian (2802), married woman International Master Arianne Caoili (2309) on September 30, two days after he won the 2017 World Cup. Aronian is a professional chess player while his wife, who holds a PhD in economics, founded and manages a newspaper in Armenia. She has participated in the biennial Chess Olympiad seven times. The bride and groom stand with President of Armenia and the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan and his wife Rita Sargsyan. (Photo: Champord.am /Alisa Studios)

Learning chess opens a world of opportunities

Chess is a catalyst for social development in communities that are underserved.

New Amsterdam Multilateral School emerged the winner of the 2017 Berbice Inter-Schools Chess Championship last month as the newly established Berbice Chess Association held its first activity. In photo: Krishnanand Raghunandan (right), President of the Berbice Chess Association presents the winning team with a trophy. The members of the winning team are: Charran Woarti, Demetre Prettipaul, Yutesh Dyal and Devon Kissoon.

Chess is getting younger by the day

“I tried to be reasonable; I didn’t like it.” – Clint Eastwood In the game of chess, you cannot be reasonable.

Requiring a draw in the final round to win the 2017 Isle of Man Chess Tournament, World Champion Magnus Carlsen (right), playing the black pieces, worked his way for equality against American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura (left). In 18 excellent moves the draw was achieved. Carefully observing the game is former world champion Viswanathan Anand (standing). Anand placed second, and Nakamura third. (Photo: Chess.com/Maria Emelianova)

Carlsen wins Isle of Man Open

Magnus Carlsen, 26, the charismatic Norwegian who is the World Chess Champion, blew away some eminent grandmasters to capture the 2017 Isle of Man Open Chess Tournament last Sunday.

Leron Aronian wins 2017 FIDE World Cup

Following a full two weeks of elite international chess, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian toppled each of his opponents to emerge victorious in the 2017 World Cup. On

Aronian and Liren through to Candidates Tournament

The most accurate chess thinkers worldwide, the most prolific grandmasters in the world, 128 of them, began the 2017 FIDE World Cup with solid hopes of taking one of the two qualifying spots for next year’s Candidates Tournament.

Grandmasters battle for places in Candidates Tournament

One of the selected aspirations of a chess grandmaster is to become a world chess champion.

A look back at the Fischer, Spassky championship match

You explain deep mysteries, because even the dark is light to you.

Who will be India’s 50th grandmaster?

In his largely entertaining and insightful book, Grandmasters of Chess Pulitzer prize winner and music critic/chess correspondent for the New York Times, Harold C Schonberg, tells us about the origin of the word grandmaster.

During a strong grandmaster chess tournament two weeks ago in Vlissingen, Netherlands, 12-year-old Indian International Master R Praggnanandhaa (right) played a 20-board clock simultaneous exhibition against some recognized Dutch chess players. ‘Pragg’ as he is called, won the encounter 20-0. Clock simultaneous exhibitions are more taxing than those without since one has to keep moving and maintain the quality of one’s moves. In photo: Pragg exchanges the traditional handshake prior to the beginning of his encounter. (PhotoChess News/Ploegarts)

Constant practice necessary for success in competitive chess

In 2005 when he retired from active competition, Russian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was the highest-ranked player in the world.

Kasparov rises and falls

At the St Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament the chess world eagerly awaited the re-emergence of the former 13th world champion from Russia, Garry Kasparov.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation James Bond (right) presents a trophy and cheque to Ghansham Alijohn, the second place winner of the junior category of the Rapid Chess Tournament that was held three weeks ago at the YMCA. A student of St Stanislaus College, Ghansham is fondly known as ‘Little Anand’ in chess circles, perhaps, due to his style of play. He plays chess seriously, and is one of the nation’s bright prospects for the future.

Vishy Anand in shock win at Sinquefield

When the finest chess players on the planet clash in the same competition, no one, not even the world champion, is safe.

Can Hou Yifan qualify to represent China alongside her male peers?

Chinese woman chess grandmaster Hou Yifan, 23, a former chess prodigy and three-time Women’s World Champion, emerged victorious in the 50th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland last week.

Drayton, Gopaul win seven-round tournament

Following a six-month period of non-activity in tangible chess playing, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is back on stage in the local limelight.

Azerbaijan chess grandmaster Teimour Radjabov won the hotly contested FIDE Grand Prix Geneva Tournament recently with a fighting draw against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi. Nepomniachtchi required a victory to take sole first place but Radjabov denied his wish with energetic play in the final game of the tournament. The exacting Grand Prix series is being conducted to identify two participants for the impending Candidates Tournament. In photo: Radjabov (left) discusses the game following the encounter. (Photo by Valera Belobeev for World Chess)

Azerbaijan grandmaster seems headed to Candidates Tournament

Teimour Radjabov, a chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan who is ranked Number 32 in the world, placed first in the recent FIDE Grand Prix in Geneva.

The return of Kasparov

The game (chess) has always been thought of as a relatively pure measure of intellect, and the presence of a Soviet atop the world rankings signalled to the empire’s subjects, no matter how poor and starving they may have been, that they possessed some sort of superiority – Jack Dickey, in an article titled “Can Garry Kasparov stay a move ahead of Vladimir Putin?”