Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
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FACTBOX: Cases of prisoner exchanges between the Soviet Union/Russia and US
The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...
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Kremlin's surprise release: Diplomatic chess with Trump envoy
The Kremlin has released American prisoner Marc Fogel, who spent over three years in a Russian prison for drug smuggling.
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Scraping the Barrel: Russia Is Buying Up Old T-34 Tanks
The T-34 played a pivotal role in winning the Second World War. But eighty years later, the tank is a museum piece.
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Magnus Carlsen to Anna Cramling: World’s most attractive chess grandmasters and players
Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.