14-year-old Ukrainian chess player Igor Samunenkov became the youngest grandmaster in the world, Pravda reports. Igor also became the fourth youngest grandmaster in the history of Ukraine. Samunenkov has been playing chess professionally since he was eight years old. In 2021, he received the title of Master of the International Chess...
Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov is not given a visa to the United States. He was invited to teach at the summer school of the New York Chess Academy, but his visa application went unanswered for several months. The Voice of America writes about it. Russian grandmaster Anatoly Karpov has already ...
On July 27, the heroine of the international Google Doodle was the Ukrainian Lyudmila Rudenko, the first world champion among female chess players from the USSR and the savior of 300 children from besieged Leningrad. The picture postcard that appears on the main search page on significant dates is often targeted by Google at just...
Six years ago, Ambakisye Osayaba took a big step - he quit his job as a central park cleaner part-time and started playing chess full-time, writes the New York Post. Now he makes up to $ 400 a day playing with ...
Russian chess player Sergei Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament in Moscow and won the right to meet the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway. The Grandmasters' bout will take place in November in New York. The current Candidates Tournament was held in the historic building of the Central Telegraph ...
Facebook chat has several secret functions that can be triggered using special codes. Information about them can be found on the social network Facebook. For example, if you open a dialogue with your interlocutor and write @Dailycute, a funny photo with animals will appear. Every time ...
The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four individuals and six companies for supporting the Syrian authorities and helping to carry out oil deals between the Assad government and the Islamic State group. The sanctions list includes, in particular, the President of the International Chess Federation ...
The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen blindfolded three American businessmen. The Norwegian chess player held a simul at a conference of financiers in New York. Each of the three participants in the session got nine minutes to play, but despite ...
Georgian chess champion Gayoz Nigalidze was disqualified at a tournament in Dubai for checking the moves in a game with an application on a smartphone. As stated in the message on the official website of the tournament, during the game against the Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosyan Nigalidze, ...