Today’s athletes are polished to perfection. Every move is rehearsed, every word pre-approved, and every instinct tamed by ...

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Many of India's grandmasters come from Chennai, including Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngest world chess champion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The 1972 world championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, was widely framed as a contest between the rival superpowers.

Every American to the right of Ocasio knows that the mainstream media lie and lie. Even much of truth and facts can be honestly, inadvertently tilted. Other facts can be deliberately slanted ...

Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov ... Petrosian), USA (Bobby Fischer), Norway (Magnus Carlsen), and China (Ding Liren) are the other countries to have produced world champions.

A god who plays chess? Yes, there is one. Where else, besides Tamil Nadu, the country’s chess capital, can this be? Lord Shiva, the presiding deity at Chaturanga Vallabha Nathar temple in Tiruvarur ...

There are parallels to the situation half a century ago, when Bobby Fischer stopped playing after defeating Boris Spassky at Reykjavik. Then, Anatoly Karpov, world champion by default, proved his ...

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A former minister in Ukraine's government has humiliated Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after insisting that "Boris [Johnson] was much better". Dmytro Kuleba, a key figure of Ukraine's defence ...