Kentucky hotel unveils retro room inspired by The Queen’s Gambit with chess pieces on ceiling By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 23:29 GMT, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 23:29 GMT, 6 January 2021 The 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky unveiled its 1960s retro room inspired by The Queen’s Gambit on Wednesday – which is … Read more
One of the pastimes I have missed most in 2020 has been getting together with friends to play games. I don’t mean the kind of computer games my kids are obsessed by, such as Minecraft and Fortnite — their virtual connection to pals even through the school closures. No, the games I have been longing … Read more
A disgraced chess grandmaster, banned from tournaments after he was caught cheating by using a phone while sitting on a toilet, has been seen spotted competing under a new name. Players became suspicious of unrated ‘Isa Kasimi’ after he destroyed an opponent at a small tournament in Latvia on Saturday. But the mysterious player, who … Read more
India and Russia both get gold medals at chess championship after two Indian players lose their internet connection in final Nihal Sarin, 16, and Divya Deshmukh, 14, fell victim to ‘global internet outage’ They were one of 160 countries competing in the Chess Olympiad held online They were forced to forfeit after loosing connection, but India … Read more
Justin Bieber and wife Hailey Baldwin Bieber continue their isolation out on a tranquil lake with their pooch along with playing a game of chess By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 01:39 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 01:39 BST, 5 April 2020 During this time of social distancing and self-isolation, Justin and Hailey Bieber … Read more
Two young Ukrainian chess stars have died in Moscow from a suspected overdose of laughing gas. Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, a grandmaster, was his country’s former quick chess champion and his death came soon after he had controversially played online for Russia against Ukraine. His girlfriend Aleksandra Vernigora, 18, also a chess professional, was a student … Read more
Two young Ukrainian chess stars have died in Moscow from a suspected overdose of laughing gas. Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, a grandmaster, was his country’s former quick chess champion and his death came soon after he had controversially played online for Russia against Ukraine. His girlfriend Aleksandra Vernigora, 18, also a chess professional, was a student … Read more
MEMOIR THE MOVES THAT MATTER by Jonathan Rowson (Bloomsbury £20, 352pp) Grandmaster chess is associated in the public’s mind with disproportionate levels of eccentricity, or even insanity. This is a statistically invalid cliché created by journalists who don’t have a passion for the game themselves and therefore can’t understand why others would devote their lives … Read more