New Delhi: An Indian information technology company will bankroll in the desert city of Dubai a global league for chess, considered by many as the ultimate game of cold, logical calculations. The inaugural game of the six-team league will take place on June 21, 2023. The day has a great…
This picture shared by cops of a chessboard with pieces scattered is of a neighbourhood game that ended badly when one of the men watching accused a player of looking at his girlfriend, and stabbed him to death before killing the other player too when they tried to intervene. The…
The first COVID-19 diagnosis in northern Russia has been confirmed as an Irishman who had arrived in the country to take part in a chess contest. The Irish patient, name and age not disclosed, was reportedly hospitalised in the city of Murmansk in the north-western Russian region of Murmansk Oblast,…
A chess grandmaster who was found dead in a Moscow flat after switching his allegiance from Ukraine to Russia was "liquidated" according to a far-right Ukrainian nationalist group. Police are still investigating the incident that claimed the lives of Ukrainian couple Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, and his girlfriend Aleksandra Vernigora, 18,…
