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Even as the chess fever and fervour grips Chennai with the 44th Chess Olympiad being hosted at Mamallapuram, former Women World Champion Susan Polgar feels th
Even as the chess fever and fervour grips Chennai with the 44th Chess Olympiad being hosted at Mamallapuram, former Women's World Champion Susan Polgar feels that the rising strength of Indian players makes them favourites to grab three out of ...
CHENNAI, July 23: Even as the chess fever and fervour grips the city with the 44th Chess Olympiad being hosted at Mamallapuram, former Women’s World Champion Susan Polgar feels that the rising strength of Indian players makes them favourites to grab three out of the six medals at stake. The event to be held at the Four Point by Sheraton from 28 July to 10 August has attracted a record 187 countries, with 188 Teams in Open section and […]
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 better put this in perspective, you need to realize that, in 1988, only two players in the world had 270...
A teaser video for the upcoming 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad, hosted in Tamil Nadu this year, has stoked a row with state BJP chief calling the ad all sh