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It technically came a day early, but the chess world was given a wonderful Christmas present 150 years ago on Dec. 24, 1868, with the birth of Emanuel Lasker in the German (now Polish) town of Berlinchen.

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chess Life Magazine. Consider becoming a US Chess member for more content like this — access to digital editions of both Chess Life and Chess Life Kids is a member benefit, and you can receive print editions of both magazines for a small add-on fee. “Fun!” That’s how Neil McKelvie sums up his 80-plus years of playing chess. 

MegaBase 2023 is Chess History in action. Regularly updated every month, the Main Database currently offers 10 million games, many of them annotated. Our columnist offers a review with focus on modern master play. There is a lot more to discover in this treasure trove: grand battles, opening novelties and exemplary endgames.

Hoping to end Russia’s domination of the International Chess Federation, Andrii Baryshpolets is running for the presidency of the powerful governing organization.

If you believe in a "Deep State" embedded in the US government, then you're falling down the conspiracy "rabbit hole," the Washington Post claims. Yet the Post believes this theory too. It just doesn't call it a 'Deep State'. Nine in 10 Americans...

Two northern bottlenose whales found stranded in Chaleur Bay recently have scientists questioning how they got there — hundreds of kilometres from where they should be. A report that the whales were stranded in shallow water came to the Marine...

China continues getting hit by heavy rains and unprecedented floods. Millions have been affected, and the agricultural infrastructure has been left in very bad shape. China's Henan province has taken the strongest hit so far, lashed by historic...

A female officer with Victoria Police, who served for 16 years, has resigned in protest against the use of police to enforce Covid-19 rules, saying in an interview that a "great majority" of her colleagues shared her sentiments. Acting Senior...

Quisha King, who is the co-chair of the Northeast Florida Moms for Liberty Chapter, called for a "mass exodus from public schools," and the crowd went wild. Speaking at the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Virginia, King recounted her story of becoming...

Activists from the LGBTQ community have demanded that Sussex University fire a prominent academic who promotes a "bastardized" version of "radical feminism" that "excludes and endangers trans people." A group calling themselves antiterfsussex -...