Chess

Chess grandmaster and multiple-time world champion Garry Kasparov and Chair of the Romanian Senate Anca Dragu opened on Friday the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2021 tournament, part of the Grand Chess Tour.

Rijeka – Chess player Laura Unuk has become the first Slovenian woman to win the International Master title awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE, the second highest-ranking title in chess.

Watching the hit Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit" sparked deja-vu for Hungarian chess great Judit Polgar, regarded as the game's best-ever female player.

Three Turkish volunteer organizers decided to organize an online chess tournament amid coronavirus lockdown.

Seçkin Serpil, a member of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), international chess player Handenur Sahin and FIDE trainer Ali Polatel organized an online chess tournament in Turkey, and they already plan another one at an international level.

The riot police charged at protesters and fired foam projectiles, while protesters threw cans, stones and flares at riot police, and set garbage containers and cardboard on fire, near the Department of home affairs of the regional government in the capital of Catalonia.
The fire has blocked at least four streets.

Registrations for the World Senior Chess Championship, which will take place in Bucharest over November 11-24, have ended this week, with 350 chess players from 54 countries having registered. The legendary Georgian chess player, Nona Gaprindashvili, ELO 2275, registered in the 65+ section.

Montenegro's government needs the opposition to help it elect a new Supreme State Prosecutor, but the post may become a pawn in a bigger political game.

A 900-year-old Viking chess piece bought for a few dollars in the 1960s has sold at auction for 735,000 pounds ($927,000), writes NOVA TV. 

The 3 1/2-inch (8.8-centimeter) Lewis Chessman sold to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday.

Turkey won three gold and two silver medals in the European Physics Olympiad, officials said on June 5.       

Garry Kasparov, chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and a former world chess champion, tried to dispel the mythology surrounding AI at the Microsoft Summit held on Tuesday at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens. "Artificial intelligence will not solve problems we have not solved ourselves...