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Las actividades paralelas suman La china Ju Wenjun protagoniza una exhibición de simultáneas mañana La Gran Maestra china Ju Wenjun se enfrentará a 25 aficionados leoneses en formato ‘online’. DL 4 de julio de 2021, 1:33 Las simultáneas de la Gran Maestra Ju Wenjun se disputarán mañana lunes a partir de las 16.00 horas. Tendrá lugar ‘online’ en la plataforma chess.com una exhibición de simultáneas, en la que la china Ju Wenjun se enfrentará a 25 aficionados leoneses por gent...

Redacción Deportes La ajedrecista ecuatoriana Martha Fierro ganó el ‘Queen’s Chess Festival’, organizado por la Comisión International de Ajedrez Femenino. Así lo confirmó la Gran Maestra Internacional de Ajedrez en sus redes sociales, este 27 de junio del 2021. “Gané ‘Queen’s Chess Festival’, participaron Grandes Maestras, IM,WIM de todos los continentes”, escribió la tricolor. Lo primero fue ganar la primera etapa para clasificarse como representante de América, c...

What a journey its been for a 10-year-old who just became a chess superstar. tani adewumi is always thinking about his next move. >> whats your grand goal >> probably be world champion >> youre thinking big. i love that. >> reporter: the 10-year-old just became the nations newest chess master. ranking in the top 1% of all players in the country. >> the game is life, basically. there could be a move that leads to good and a move that leads to bad, and its a life choice >> reporter: life hasnt alw...

Facts. jonathan, thanks so much for being there. a great interview with liz cheney, as always. congratulations on that. i always -- its very funny. i remember, about a year ago, six months ago on twitter, someone said, write the thing that will most surprise people about you. and gary casper, off the great -- the russian chess master, who was harshly critical of donald trump and became something of a hero to many on the left said, you all will be so surprised and so disappointed after trump is g...

Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi, who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter, has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master.

Tanitoluwa Adewumi has become a National Chess Master at the age of 10. Photo Credit: Nicholas Kristof/Twitter Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the young New Yorker of Nigerian descent who came into national and international prominence about two years ago after he was discovered as a homeless chess genius, is now reportedly a United States National Chess Master. - Advertisement - The prodigy is still only 10-years-old and a fifth-grader. Adewumi’s new status was reported by New York Times columnist Nich...

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SAINT LOUIS, Missouri (WABC) -- A man from the Bronx who became a ground-breaking chess champion at a young age believes in the possibilities that come from playing the game -- and hes taking his campaign on the road to prisons. More than 100 inmates at the Saint Louis County Justice Center are playing in the jails first chess tournament. "These guys, theyre good. Thats what they do," correction officer Mario Reed said. "Theres some good players in there." Justus Williams watched it all. He bec...

Credits: Photo: Howard Zhong Next image Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix’s miniseries “The Queens Gambit.” Though the show ranked as Netflix’s No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT’s chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven’t seen it yet. Tyrone Davis III, a junior computer science maj...

Senate in recent weeks, about russias involvement in pushing the ukraine meddling conspiracy. as someone whos worked with the white house, does it surprise you that such a conspiracy seemed to make its way all the way to the oval office? >> this is the central question that i hope we focus on in the next few weeks. there used to be a bipartisan consensus in this country about putin and russia. we needed to find our interests with russia and work on those, but never, ever doubt the global chess m...