Chess

INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie says he has been treated like a pawn and his relationship with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will never be the same again. Despite their landmark agreement on watered-down poker machine reforms this past week, the ...  

He went for a strong line and deviated from the theory with his 13. Rb2. The rook move was a surprise of sorts as the Indian adopted an approach of counterattack. At that stage, he had the option taking a pawn in the ‘c’ file. The black had a two-pawn ...  

17.05.2012 Is the Championship in Moscow, without a Russian player, an audience success? Can chess ever be that? Yes it can, as Obama would say. Chief organiser, Ilya Levitov, describes a 21st Century formula to bring chess to a wide audience – and make ...  

When set out, a chess set makes an efficient air purifier by collecting ambient dust and manmade particulate from the atmosphere in a room. The set that I have here, which I have often set out to clean the air, is an attractive one that I ...  

The six-game match between Russian GM Vladimir Kramnik and Armenian GM Levon Aronian that wrapped up in Zurich on Sunday proved unexpectedly entertaining. The world's No. 2 and No. 3 players, evenly matched and theoretically armed to the teeth, showed a refreshing willingness to mix it up and take risks ...  

Calcutta: If you go by the statistics and the past records, you would expect defending champion Viswanathan Anand to start as the favourite when he takes on challenger Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship match, at Moscow’s Tretyakov State Gallery, from May 11.  

Dear Mick: We saw "The Deep Blue Sea" last night and couldn't disagree more with your review. It was slow, boring, uninteresting and flat. As one of our seat mates exclaimed when we got up to leave, "At least it was...  

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian beat Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik in the next rapid chess game in Zurich.  

Final round of the six-game match between Aronian and Kramnik is due on April 28 at 15:00 Yerevan time.  

DECATUR — Jacob Schniepp likes chess because it’s a battle game.  

Veteran chess players hope to attract a new generation to the checkered board.