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Stewart Reuben: "My edge was that I got to play Bobby Fischer"

Stewart Reuben has officiated and/or organised several top-level chess events held in Great Britain and other countries, including the World Chess Championship, the British Chess Championship and a number of Hastings Congresses. Also an author and a poker player, he even met and played Bobby Fischer: “Each game he won, he gained $1. Had I ever won one, I would have received $10”. | Photo: John Upham ....

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Irina Bulmaga looks back on the "Battle of the Sexes" match in Gibraltar

The "Battle of the Sexes" was a ten-round Scheveningen match between ten male and ten female players that was played from 24 January to 3rd February in Gibraltar. The men won 53-47, and looking back on the match, Irina Bulmaga (pictured), who commentated the games live in Gibraltar, wonders if and why the men were better at team-building and what this match says about women's chess. | Photo: David Llada ....

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Shohreh Bayat 'thrilled and honored' to win International Women of Courage Award

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Mar 8, 2021 | 7:35 AMby Tarjei Svensen
Shohreh Bayat thrilled and honored to win International Women of Courage Award
One of the world s top chess arbiters, Shohreh Bayat, refused to apologise and decided not to return to her home country Iran after the Women s World Chess Championship in China and Russia last year, fearing for her safety after a photograph from the event circulated in the Iranian media and appeared to show her not wearing a headscarf. On International Women s Day Bayat will receive the prestigious International Women of Courage Award for her brave decision after the event.
Shohreh Bayat began the Ju Wenjun vs. Goryachkina Women s World Championship match wearing a hijab, but there was an outcry in Iran when photos taken head-on appeared to show no hijab | photo: Zhang Yanhong, FIDE ....

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