Recently, the column delivered some insights into chess openings and the middle game. Each phase has had players who excelled ...

Exiled former Russian oligarch and opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the Warsaw Security Forum, Poland, October 2, 2024. WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP Mikhail Khodorkovsky welcomes visitors at ...

And when those moments come, Mikhail McLean’s presence is unmistakable. The 33-year-old UK assistant coach — a former college basketball player himself — can be as exuberant as anyone on ...

Spassky was born in Leningrad in 1937, and won recognition at the age of ten by beating the Soviet champion Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition. By the age of 18, he had earned the ...

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Moscow, 61 years old) went from being the richest businessman in the Russian Federation to spending almost a decade of his life in a Siberian prison, on the orders of his ...

But this one was a team event in Belgrade, which featured players like Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal besides Spassky and Fischer. In that match, Larsen was picked ...

At a time when the world of chess was dominated by the mathematically precise play of Mikhail Botvinnik (world champion 1948-57, 1958-60, 1961-63), the positional tactics of Vasily Smyslov (world ...

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