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SAUDI CHESS TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF AMID TENSIONS AFTER ISRAELI PLAYERS' VISAS DENIED
In November, Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura hit out against FIDE for awarding Saudi Arabia the tournament... READ MORE›
HEAD OF ENGLISH CHESS CALLS FOR SAUDI ARABIA TO BE STRIPPED OF WORLD SPEED CHAMPIONSHIPS AFTER VISA SNUB
Meanwhile, players from Qatar and Iran, which have strained ties with Saudi Arabia, have been granted visas to participate in the tournament... READ MORE›
CHESS FEDERATION SAYS ISRAEL EXCLUDED FROM SAUDI-HOSTED MATCH
Saudi Arabia's Center for International Communication said in a statement that more than 180 players would participate but did not immediately respond to a request for comment... READ MORE›
ISRAELI CHESS PLAYERS DENIED VISAS FOR EVENT IN SAUDI ARABIA
Lior Aizenberg, a spokesman for the Israel Chess Federation, said efforts were still being made by various parties to allow Israeli players to take part... READ MORE›
MOSCOW SHOW SMASHES MYTH OF DRAB SOVIET DESIGN
With the fall of the Soviet Union, most factories and research institutes were privatised... READ MORE›
NORWEGIANA PIN-UP MAGNUS CARLSEN TO DEFEND WORLD CHESS CROWN IN LONDON
World Chess, the commercial arm of the game's governing body Fide, then turned its attention to London... READ MORE›
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'I WILL NOT WEAR A HIJAB'
Nazi Paikidze says Iran's hijab law is oppressive. But one of the country's top chess players says a boycott will only hurt women's sports in Iran... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | TRUMP CALLED THE NEWS MEDIA AN 'ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.' HERE'S A HISTORY OF THE TERM.
For foes of Joseph Stalin, being branded an enemy of the people was a death sentence... READ MORE›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
BEFORE 'FAKE NEWS,' THERE WAS SOVIET 'DISINFORMATION'
The Patriot's article was subsequently used as a source for an October 1985 story in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, a Soviet weekly with considerable influence at the time... READ MORE›
Q&A: IRANIAN CHESS PLAYER SARA KHADEM
Sara Khadem I was in the second grade when my friend talked about playing chess... READ MORE›
'QUEEN OF CHESS' RESIGNS AFTER FIVE MOVES HAVING REPEATEDLY BEEN MADE TO PLAY WOMEN
Gibraltar Chess is an open event meaning that, unlike women-only tournaments, entry is open to players of both sexes... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
GARRY KASPAROV WINS HUMAN RIGHTS CASE AGAINST RUSSIA
Kasparov unsuccessfully tried to bring legal action in Russia in 2007 before taking his case to Strasbourg... READ MORE›
PUTIN OPENS FIRST SOVIET VICTIMS MEMORIAL
President Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia's first monument to people killed in political repression under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin... READ MORE›
THIS KREMLIN LEADER BRAGGED ABOUT TIPPING A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
That happened at the height of the Cold War, in 1961, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met the then-recently elected John F. Kennedy in Vienna... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
IN A DACHA WALL A CLUE TO A COLD WAR MYSTERY
Suspicion for the snatching of Wallenberg off the streets near Budapest fell almost immediately on the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
IGOR SHAFAREVICH RUSSIAN MATHEMATICIAN WITH A MIXED POLITICAL LEGACY DIES AT 93
Igor Shafarevich Russian Mathematician With a Mixed Political Legacy Dies at 93... READ MORE›
CHESS PLAYERS NEED CHECKING FOR DRUGS, SCIENTISTS SAY
Drug-testing exists to some extent in chess, but only at events such as the world championship... READ MORE›
PUTIN USES THE SOVIET DEFEAT OF HITLER TO SHOW WHY RUSSIA NEEDS HIM TODAY
The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944... READ MORE›
GARRY KASPAROV: WHY THE WORLD SHOULD EMBRACE AI
Not at all, says chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
MARK TAIMANOV WORLD-CLASS CHESS AND PIANO PLAYER DIES AT 90
Mark Taimanov, World-Class Chess and Piano Player, Dies at 90... READ MORE›
WORLD CHESS SECURES BIGGEST SPONSOR SINCE DAYS OF GARRY KASPAROV'S BREAKAWAY
Bobby Fischer captured the world's imagination when he took the world chess championship from Boris Spassky in their epic 1972 encounter... READ MORE›
REP. ROHRABACHER: PUTIN DIDNT STEAL ELECTION
One can appreciate our foreign policy establishment's anxiety about the incoming administration's apparent tilt toward Russia... READ MORE›
GEORGIA'S STALIN MUSEUM GIVES SOVIET VERSION OF DICTATOR'S LIFE STORY
Vera Shalamberidze leaned against a statue of Joseph Stalin and smiled for the photo... READ MORE›
WHEN WILL RUSSIA STOP TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY?
Even though a quarter of a century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian sensibilities have hardly changed... READ MORE›
COMMUNISTS WANT LENIN ON RUSSIAN MONEY TO CELEBRATE OCTOBER 1917 CENTENARY
Revolution ruble Communists want Lenin on Russian money to celebrate October 1917 centenary... READ MORE›
A COLD WAR SUMMIT OFFERS LESSONS FOR TRUMP
Kennedy entered the meeting as a hawk, after warning of a nonexistent missile gap between the United States and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
SOVIET 'NKVD' RESTAURANT NAME TRIGGERS MOSCOW ROW
A Moscow restaurant named NKVD, like Stalin's secret police, loses its street sign amid a furore... READ MORE›
UGANDA'S 'QUEEN OF KATWE' GOT HER START AT THIS SLUM CHESS SCHOOL
KATWE, Uganda -- Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move... READ MORE›
GRANDMASTER CLAIMS HE WAS TOLD HE COULDN'T WEAR SHORTS AT CHESS WORLD CUP BECAUSE HE 'LOOKED LIKE A GYPSY'
Kovalyov, 25, had turned up wearing the same stripey shorts he wore in the previous round when he knocked out India's former world champion Vishy Anand... READ MORE›
RUGBY WORLD CUP? PAH! THE WORLD CUP OF CHESS IS FAR MORE EXCITING
All eyes however are on China's 16-year-old prodigy, Yi Wei, who is currently taking the chess world by storm... READ MORE›
CREATE A NEW PASSWORD
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov tells FRANCE 24 he sees Russian President Vladimir Putin as a dangerous dictator ... READ MORE›