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December 28, 2021 12:48 (UTC+04:00) 2,576 By Sabina Mammadli The blitz and rapids world championship has started in Warsaw. On the first day of the tournament, four rapid…

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Norway's Magnus Carlsen clinched his fifth world chess crown in Dubai on Friday with a landslide 7.5-3.5 victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi, who faded badly after facing the champion in Norwegian title in the first…

Simmering tension on the board, unexpected drama outside. Magnus Carlsen's defense of his world chess title in Dubai began with a 45-move draw against his Russian opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi - and a surprise intervention by the World…

JThe grand, historic but sometimes ridiculed sport of chess believes its time has come, post-lockdown favored a rapid rise the number of online gamers in the world. Go to a site such as chess.com any time of the day or night and you'll…

Soviet chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili sues Netflix for $ 5million over line from her hit series The Queen's Gambit which claimed she had "never played with men", calling the claim "grossly sexist. and demeaning ".The lawsuit, filed…

Eighteen-year-old SHAMIR Martin, a sixth-grader at Glenmuir High School, won the Under-18 trophy last Saturday at the National Age Group Chess Championship. The event took place online and for Martin, although it…

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The Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can achieve, out of the millions of players around the world there are currently only 1,721 Grand Masters.The title is awarded by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and is usually held for…

YEKATERINBURG, April 26. / TASS /. Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi won the FIDE (World Chess Federation) Chess Candidates Tournament on Monday with one round to lose from the international competition, currently hosted by the…

Danielle Paquette WASHINGTON POST - On the 300e The morning he woke up in a friend's spare bedroom, the Scrabble champion mulled over his next move and settled on a word. Nine letters, 68 points: Defective. It had been a year since the…

If you were a fan of The Queen's Gambit, or just love chess, you can play Beth Harmon online at various stages of her career. It's really cool. How to play Beth Harmon Chess.com has created a series of seven Beth Bots for chess…

india first participation in the final of the Chess Olympiad is certainly a testament to its rising stature at the international level. But warnings accompany the glory. The feat is certainly historic, but India is still far from matching…

The FIDE World Chess Championship match, which was scheduled to start on December 20, 2020 in Dubai, has been postponed until 2021. The second half of the Candidates Tournament is still scheduled before the end of this year, the…

When you reach Scrabbledrawstring bag of tiles and pull out a X, a Q, and one Z all in one handful, it's hard to suppress a little moan. As one of the less common letters in the English language, they are…

It's 2019 and the Nigeria Scrabble National Team has won the English Scrabble Players Association World Championship. title for the third time. Since the creation of WESPAC in 1991, no other African country has won the championship, until…

so wesley is about to win the Fischer Random World Championship after deletion Magnus Carlsen the second day of slow-fast games. Thus leads Carlsen by the impressive score of 10.5-1.5 in the match to the best of 24 points. He…

Global tournament star Israeli Evan Cohen shares what it takes to be a winning writer. The definition of the word "curved" is to bend something. But for Evan Cohen, it took on a whole new meaning. It is the word that has scored…

The Ganesh Express was a nickname given to Ganesh Asirvatham for its then heavy frame and lightning turns in Scrabble. Aside from his politically incorrect allusions (he's since lost the extra pounds), he conjures up a sense of speed and…

I set off in search of a giant mop with red beards, neat tiles of obscure words, and a star-struck opponent.I found the last two.Quadruple English Scrabble World Champion Nigel Richards, hunched motionless over the board and shouting his…

The archetypal "family board game" Scrabble already has a heritage that rivals that of a small European nation. At…

This is the title (except for the parentheses) of Heather Mac Donald's editorial in Saturday's edition the Wall Street newspaper: Since the start of the World Scrabble Championship in 1991, all winners have been men. The North American…

It has now been more than a decade since Russia's almost unbroken 59-year monopoly on the world chess crown ended, so Moscow is scrambling to develop new talent who can challenge Norway's Magnus Carlsen. But his method is controversial,…

Lukeman Owolabi was a teenager when he started playing Scrabble. Every evening after school, the young Nigerian would get together with friends and, using an Oxford dictionary, would play the game until…

Video: David Eldar was crowned Scrabble World Champion in Nottingham A 27-year-old Australian was crowned Scrabble World Champion in Nottingham. David Eldar was crowned the winner after defeating Sri Lankan Harshan…

Country Life's Jeremy Taylor took on Scrabble World Champion Brett Smitheram. That's what he learned. There are…

LAGOS, Nigeria - Time is running out at the Lagos Under-17 Monopoly Championship, and the pace of the game was getting so hectic that it was difficult to decipher the true owner of Banana Island, Tiamiyu Savage Street and other properties…

Braconid: a parasitic wasp and earning 176 points, eight letters, triple triple score in the 2016 Scrabble World Championship. In the final at the Grand Palais in Lille, Londoner Brett Smitheram beat his British compatriot Mark Nyman with…

The Scrabble World Championship may not attract the same media attention as other "mind sports" events such as the World Chess Cup or the International Mathematical Olympiad, but for the creators of words from all over the world,…

The King's Cup Scrabble tournament, which takes place over four days in July in Bangkok, is essentially the Wimbledon of board game, with a prize and a trophy of ten thousand dollars awarded by the Thai royal family to the winner. Among…

American "Gamester" John Gotti's Secret Obsession Who Bet $ 600 at Scrabble and $ 3000 Buy-In at Monopoly By Daily Mail Reporter Posted: 11:19 pm GMT, August 1, 2012 | Update: 23:29 GMT, August 1, 2012 Game-ster:!-->…

Ethan Rosenthal had a Q. The clock was ticking and the high ceiling gymnasiumwas suffocated. The round-faced, shaggy-haired 11-year-old looked at the words arranged on the Scrabble board, then arranged six letters. Q - I - N - T - A - R.…