CHENNAI: It's too early to say whether Magnus Carlsen of Norway has done a favour to World champion Viswanathan Anand by beating sole leader Hikaru Nakamura of US in the eight round. At the halfway stage, Anand is back in the lead having caught up with Nakamura on 5.5 points but the danger signal is [...]
In its 1,500-year history, chess has imbedded itself in the world's culture and vocabulary. Ideas, terms and images from the game have long been used as proxies for intelligence and complexity. But chess is more than a diversion. Thousands worldwide play professionally or earn a living by teaching it to children. The Internet has transformed [...]
By U.S. News Agency / Asian GM Wesley So authored another major upset win, this time against super GM David Navara of the Czech Republic in 34 moves of the Neo-Gruenfeld, and made it three wins in a row in the 73rd Tata Steel-Corus Group B Chess championship at the De Morianne Community Centre. Riding [...]
When “The Cape†(David Lyons) tips off Dominic Raoul — aka Scales (Vinnie Jones) — that Peter Fleming (James Frain) has been extorting money from him, Scales heads to a costume party on a train to confront Fleming. “The Cape†and Orwell (Summer Glau), also at the party, discover Max (Keith David) and the gang [...]