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This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this weekâs special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet, though we are knee-deep in our Passover c…
Published February 12, 2021, 3:59 PM
Grandmaster Wesley So and the United States settles for a semifinal finish in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad over the weekend. (FIDE Photo)
Grandmaster Wesley So moved on the cusp of the Opera Euro Rapid finals after taking down fellow Champions Chess Tour leg winner Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, 2.5.-1.5, in the first of the two-match semifinals on Friday (Manila time).
So scored a pivotal victory in the third of the four-game opening match with the Rossolimo Attack variation of the Sicilian Defence as the Cavite-born woodpusher inched closer to the finals of the $100,000 (over P4.8 million) online rapid chess tournament.
The politics and passions of three-dimensional chess
This is a lazy, meaningless phrase that conveniently ignores that chess, like life itself, already takes place in three dimensions. âNormalâ chess is exceedingly complex.
By Alex Beam Contributor,Updated February 5, 2021, 3:00 a.m.
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I love the phrase âthree-dimensional chess.â NPR used it this week to describe US-Russian relations, meaning âcomplicated.â Podcasters Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus recently speculated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was âplaying three-dimensional chessâ by impeaching former president Donald Trump. The more exposure Trump gets, this 3-D variant of the queenâs â sorry, speakerâs â gambit goes, the more the Republican Party suffers.
Jasmine Goldband
At age 10, Ivry is interviewed by the Pittsburgh Tribune for his successes and achievements in chess.
My son’s love for chess began when we signed him up for a chess class at age 4. Three years later, he would compete against older contestants both in local tournaments and in the U.S. National Open ― many of these he’d won. At around the same time, he became the second-ranked player in Pennsylvania for his age group.
I was an amateur chess player myself, but with no ferocious desire to win. Still, I was ecstatic when he started bringing home prize money and trophies. He was featured in local newspapers. He played against grandmasters, including Renato Naranja, who drew against chess greats such as Bobby Fisher and Samuel Reshevsky. After Naranja played my son, Ivry, at the famous Marshall’s Chess Club in New York City in 2012, Naranja said, “Well, now we know the true meaning of