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Disruptive leadership (1): Building a winning team using a chessboard strategy
MENSAH Having attained the CEO status, Theorhema sat behind his desk and began to stare at the strategically positioned chessboard and wondered how his next move will play out. This chapter is not ...
Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Judit Polgar agrees with D Gukesh’s trainer’s ‘different from standard’ explanation after winless Freestyle Chess run
Judit Polgar agreed with D Gukesh's chief trainer's observation that Chess960 is ‘completely different’ from the standard variant.
Freestyling in style, Keymer captures Chess960 inaugural event
German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the ...
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Stop applauding the sporadic victories of ‘kings’
The Middle Easterners also came up with ‘shah-mat’ to indicate that the king’s defeat was imminent, which led to westerners ...
'People still ask, 'Chess is fine, but what do you really do?'': Arjuna Awardee Vantika Agrawal
Vantika Agrawal, inspired by chess as a child, became a double gold medallist at the 2024 Chess Olympiad and recently ...
An American Financier’s No Good, Very Bad British Adventure
Hedge-fund manager Boaz Weinstein isn’t backing down in his uphill battle against the $300 billion U.K. investment-trust ...
The Journal4d
Finding the right angle
What is white’s best move? The lesson this week is that chess is often about finding the right angles. Reach Eric Morrow at ...
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Chess Sets
it became clear that a standard size and shape for the ancient game's 32 pieces was required. It was Nathaniel Cook's ‘Ornamental Design for a Set of Chess Men’ patented on March 1, 1849 that made the ...
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The Stunning Castle In Georgia That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Imagine stumbling upon a fairy tale castle nestled in the North Georgia mountains. No, you’re not dreaming – this is Uhuburg, ...
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen broke a dress code with jeans. Now he’s selling them for charity
The Norwegian chess grandmaster announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a ...
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Bills re-sign key offensive chess piece to one-year ERFA contract
The Buffalo Bills deployed a sixth offensive lineman more frequently than any other NFL team last season and Alec Anderson was the guy. Buffalo ensured that Anderson will again be available in ...