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The professional chess world is ablaze in the most insane scandal. A young American is being accused of taking down the world's Grand Master by cheating. How? Using secret signal" vibrating anal beads. That is not a typo. With no actual evidence to support the theory, the internet is on fire with it
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The 2022 International Computer Games Association events are fast approaching: the World Computer Chess Championships (Vienna, July 23-29), the 2022 Computer Olympiad (online, July 23-29), and the 2022 Computers and Games conference (online, November 22-24). The ICGA has distributed full information on all upcoming events.
In the history of the Chess World Championships Viktor Korchnoi is an extremely successful player, even if he was ultimately denied the title. If you count the 1974 Candidates Final for challenging Fischer, he played three 'World Championship matches'. The era of Korchnoi's participations in the WCh cycle stretches from the Curacao Candidates Tournament in 1962 to the 1991 quarterfinal match against Timman, which he played at the age of 60. The dramatic fight against Anatoly Karpov in Baguio City in 1978 stands out in particular: hypnosis, cheating accusations with blueberry yoghur...
Profile speaks to world’s best ever female chess player, Judit Polgar, about The Queen’s Gambit, sexism in chess, and the upcoming World Championship.