Ha Noi hosts rapid chess event

More in: MARGAO: Goan boy Rajaryan Kuvelkar gave his chess career a much needed push by clinching the first place at the 1st International IWICA Rapid Chess tournament which concluded recently in Bangkok. The 12-year-old who is a new chess sensation ...

Pranit Surya emerged champion in the open category with 4.5 points from five rounds in the Cyber Chess Academys rapid tournament featuring 26 rated players and many other unrated players.<...

Kim Dong Cup - the sixth Hanoi Rapid Chess Open Tournament, co-organized by the Kim Dong Publishing House and VietChess Company will take place on May 25th and 26th in Hanoi Library. Competitors will compete in four categories, namely U7, U9, U12 ...

MANILA -- FIDE Master David Elorta emerged the winner of the two-day tough 8th DWP Mixed Masters Rapid Chess Tournament which concluded over the May 11-12 weekend at the Bayview Residence Hotel here. Elorta, the pride of San Andres, Manila, suffered ...

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A few months after Kerala got its youngest chess International Master in 15-year-old S L Narayanan, another promising young talent from the state has surfaced in nine-year-old Dhruv Rajeev. He recently gained an international chess rating from the ...

Politics is often thought of as a game of chess where pieces can be moved around to execute winning strategies. Applying that logic to the Syrian conflict is dangerous and misleading. Intervening in complex emergencies is at best a perilous ...

Breaking news It came down to a single "armageddon" playoff game, but top-seeded GM Gata Kamsky claimed the 2013 U.S. championship in a thrilling finish Monday at the Chess Club Scholastic Center of St. Louis. He defeated Texas GM Alejandro Ramirez ...

Robert Byrne, an international grandmaster and United States chess champion who, as the chess columnist for The New York Times, analyzed top-flight matches from 1972 through 2006, the eras of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, died on Friday at his ...