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The Washington Times Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Former world champ Magnus Carlsen reclaimed a crown and settled a score on his way
The Washington Times Tuesday, September 24, 2024 At the Paris Olympics this summer, Indian athletes went home with zero gold medals.
Oct. 7, 2023, ranks as the darkest day in modern Israeli history, when a massive Hamas surprise attack killed more than 1,200 civilians, captured hundreds of hostages and humiliated the country's vaunted intelligence and military services.
The U.S. Chess Hall of Fame and the World Chess Hall of Fame are inducting the 2024 class of honorees this month, featuring a roster of some of the game's best-known stars of yesteryear — and a couple of worthy but less prominent names.
By: David R. Sands
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Thursday that his government would resist any attempt at forced annexation, in a closely-watched National Day address to the nation that brought an immediate — and furious — reaction from China.
Sure, you have to end a war or cure a disease or solve some esoteric problem in particle physics, but it's a sure bet that every year at least six people — often more — will get some face-time with the king of Sweden for winning a Nobel.
In an incident that generated national headlines, 17-year-old GM Christopher Yoo, upset over a painful Round 5 loss to top-seeded GM Fabiano Caruana at the ongoing U.S. Championship Tournament in St. Louis, ripped up his scorecard, abruptly left the board and — worst of all — struck a female videographer from behind as he left the tournament hall. The U.S. Chess Federation, rightly, immediately disqualified the young California GM, and his games — including the loss to Caruana — will not count toward the final scores.
By: David R. Sands
North Korean troops deployed to Russia have already been spotted on the battlefields of the Ukraine-Russia war, the Ukrainian defense intelligence service said Thursday.
By: David R. Sands
U.S. national champion GM Fabiano Caruana and U.S. women’s national titleholder IM Carissa Yip successfully defended their crowns at the national championship tournaments that ended last week at the Chess Club of St. Louis. It was the fourth open American title belt for Caruana, the country’s highest-rated player, and the third for Yip.
By: David R. Sands
Our defense budget may be second to none, but when it comes to chess, the U.S. still lacks the firepower of some of our closest NATO allies. The 34th NATO Chess Championship, one of our favorite annual events, concluded last month on the island of Rhodes, with the Greek hosts taking home the title they first won in 2022.
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