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When facing Bobby Fischer during the 1959 Candidates tournament, Mikhail Tal playfully changed a Caro-Kann to a Sicilian (1...c6 to 1...c5), but the 16-year-old American kept a straight face.
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Olimpiu Di Luppi
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Olimpiu Di Luppi
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History, literature, art, chess • Forthcoming: a complete pictorial biography of José Raúl Capablanca, the greatest chess marvel of all time.
- When Elon Musk says that chess, the 1,500-year-old game that continues to baffle the world's best minds and computers alike, is too simple for him, the real revelation is that Elon Musk is too simple for chess.
- The Indians invented chess and, a millennium and a half later, came back to reclaim and perfect it.
- Magnus Carlsen, before and after five world championship titles in classical chess.
- Magnus Carlsen stands with Kasparov and Ukraine.
- This epic Magnus Carlsen versus Ian Nepomniachtchi game lasted longer than the whole 7 episodes of "The Queen's Gambit" mini-series on Netflix.
- Ding Liren, the first Chinese player to hold the title, is the new world chess champion. This marks a historic moment as both the men's and women's world champions in chess are now from China.
GIF - Magnus Carlsen congratulates 18-year-old Indian sensation Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa for knocking out Hikaru Nakamura.
GIF - That April 2, 2018 moment when Hou Yifan spotted a small tactic before Magnus Carlsen did.
GIF - Meanwhile, the former world chess champion...
- After some brief analysis, Ian Nepomniachtchi said this to Fabiano Caruana at the end of that epic last-round Candidates tournament game: "I am very sorry." Caruana replied: "My fault."
GIF - Unlike Anand, who when he challenged for the world title was a pioneer and an underdog, today's top Indian talent are neither: they're backed by a training infrastructure, top government officials, billionaires, corporations, celebrities, and media. It pays off to have an Anand.
- Elon Musk: "Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels and rocks, but now we have computers." This is arguably the dumbest thing ever said about chess by someone that smart.
