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The Polgar Sisters have been chess legends for many years. Arguably corroborating the quintessentially Jewish argument that nurture is more important than nature! In recent months they’ve utilised both their brains and their hearts in order to support the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

This coming weekend Judit Polgar invites you to her ninth Global Chess Festival. The theme of the festival this time is "Decision Making". The events will take place on Saturday at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and on Sunday online with many venues around the world. | Photos: Global Chess Festival

The 44th Chess Olympiad is about to start in Chennai. The main focus will be undoubtedly on the team results, as every match is a joint effort to earn a match victory. However, individual achievements are also highlighted at Chess Olympiads. Let us recall some of the most remarkable individual results at the Chess Olympiads in the 21st century. | Photo: Niklesh Jain (from the 2018 Batumi Olympiad)

In the third episode of the series "Olympiad stories with Saravanan", IM Sagar Shah and IM Venkata Saravanan discuss Judit Polgar's flabbergasting 12½/13 performance in the 1988 Thessaloniki Olympiad. Judit was rated 2365 FIDE at the time, with rating lists coming out every six months. Not only did Hungary sweep the championship to take gold and defeat the all-powerful Soviet chess team, but Judit had an incredible 2694 performance, and she was barely twelve years old. To bett...

The claim to be the best ever in chess, in any category, is usually backed up by either hard numbers (Karpov's number of grandmaster tournament wins is not open to debate), or strong opinions such as the best absolute player. But the debate on the greatest prodigy seems to lie somewhere in between, depending on your criteria. Read this article and see if you agree. (photo: Capablanca at age four)

In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess Grandmaster Nigel Short appealed to neuroscience to support his claim that women’s brains are “hard-wired” in a way that predisposes females to have less innate chess aptitude than their male counterparts. In essay titled  "Vive la Différence!” published this week in Chess In News, Mr. Short writes that Dutch chess Grandmaster Johannes Hendrikus Donner, may have “had a point,” when he wrote, “The difference between the sex...

The Globe and Mail Kenneth Rogoff Published January 22, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Kenneth Rogoff is professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. In the brilliant and hugely successful 20...

Queens Gambit connections ripple across chess community Jennifer Sweet © Mike Heenan/CBC Seven-year-old Andreas Doemer of Saint John is the current national champion in his age group. The wildly popular video drama series The Queens Gambit has created a tsunami of interest in the game of chess. And New Brunswick has definitely caught the wave.   A beacon of the provincial chess scene has been inundated with phone calls and emails and has a personal connection to the woman ...