Lior Aizenberg, spokesman of the Israeli Chess Federation, said the decision to prevent the Israelis from attending was indeed political... READ MORE›
In November, Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura hit out against FIDE for awarding Saudi Arabia the tournament... READ MORE›
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›
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›
World Chess, the commercial arm of the game's governing body Fide, then turned its attention to London... READ MORE›
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›
The Americans accused Russia of striking moderate rebel factions fighting Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime under cover of their claimed assault on the Islamic State group... READ MORE›
Putin said he asked Assad how he would react if Russia "found armed opposition groups who are really ready to fight terrorists" ..... READ MORE›
The 63-year-old Russian president has, unsurprisingly, retained his position at the top of the Forbes ranking of the world's most powerful people... READ MORE›
Sara Khadem I was in the second grade when my friend talked about playing chess... READ MORE›
Gibraltar Chess is an open event meaning that, unlike women-only tournaments, entry is open to players of both sexes... READ MORE›
However, Mr Devotchenko's outspoken criticism of the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, is likely to provoke intense scrutiny over how and why he died... READ MORE›
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bitterly condemned the downing of a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border... READ MORE›
Local media in Smolensk in western Russia near the border with Belarus reported people gathering peaches that had remained whole and using them to make moonshine... READ MORE›
A week after Russia plunged directly into Syria's civil war by launching a campaign of air strikes the intelligence committees of the U.S... READ MORE›
Kasparov unsuccessfully tried to bring legal action in Russia in 2007 before taking his case to Strasbourg... READ MORE›
Putinspiration Set up last week Putinspiration is a parody account on Instagram depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin engaging in various hard man activities... READ MORE›
Russian officials denied any such experiment had taken place... READ MORE›
On Monday the Ukrainian delegation pointedly left the hall when Russian President Vladimir Putin started speaking... READ MORE›
But it seems Vladimir Putin's kindness to Silvio Berlusconi knows no bounds after he reportedly offered the former Italian leader the job of economy minister... READ MORE›
Russian chess champion Yuri Yeliseyev, 20, has died after apparently plunging from a balcony on the 12th floor of a Moscow apartment block... READ MORE›
President obama russia's putin clash at united nations over syria... READ MORE›
Mikheil Saakashvili, enemy of Vladimir Putin who did much to implant democracy in Georgia, left the country in June, claiming he faced guaranteed imprisonment ... READ MORE›
Vladimir Putin announces Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015... READ MORE›
The girl was participating in last month's National Scholastic Chess Championship in Putrajaya, just south of Kuala Lumpur... READ MORE›
Drug-testing exists to some extent in chess, but only at events such as the world championship... READ MORE›
Mr Goldenzweig said he was ousted from NTV shortly after giving the interview on June 8 to the Phoenix channel, in which he said that Mr Putin felt "insulted" ..... READ MORE›
Yesterday, Mr Cameron and Mr Putin met for 50 minutes in a room overlooking a blue tennis court in the Russian president's hotel... READ MORE›
Elton John has said he wants to hold talks with Vladimir Putin over what he called the Russian president's ridiculous stance on gay rights... READ MORE›
Government and its allies to agree to coordinate their campaign against Islamic State militants with Russia, Iran and the Syrian army... READ MORE›
London is a danger zone for Putins Russian critics... READ MORE›
Not at all, says chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov... READ MORE›
But in three encounters with the Russian president in six days the Australian prime minister largely seems to have missed his chance... READ MORE›
Islamic State has seized territory in Syria, Russia's only outpost in the Middle East, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad is besieged by a civil war... READ MORE›
Bobby Fischer captured the world's imagination when he took the world chess championship from Boris Spassky in their epic 1972 encounter... READ MORE›
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