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SAUDI ARABIA BLOCKS ISRAEL'S CHESS TEAM FROM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Lior Aizenberg, spokesman of the Israeli Chess Federation, said the decision to prevent the Israelis from attending was indeed political... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
VLADIMIR PUTIN DRAFTS 150,000 CONSCRIPTS INTO THE RUSSIAN MILITARY
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›
VLADIMIR PUTIN ACCUSES US OF BACKING TERRORISM IN MIDDLE EAST
Putin said he asked Assad how he would react if Russia "found armed opposition groups who are really ready to fight terrorists" ..... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS FORBES MAGAZINE'S MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD
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›
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›
RUSSIAN ACTOR AND PUTIN CRITIC FOUND DEAD IN MOSCOW
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›
TURKEY DOWNING OF RUSSIA JET 'STAB IN THE BACK'
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bitterly condemned the downing of a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border... READ MORE›
ANGER, PROTESTS AS RUSSIA DESTROYS TONS OF BANNED FOOD
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›
CONGRESS PROBING U.S. SPY AGENCIES' POSSIBLE LAPSES ON RUSSIA
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›
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›
LET PUTIN BE YOUR FITNESS INSPIRATION HERO
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›
RUSSIA 'TRIED TO CUT OFF' WORLD WIDE WEB
Russian officials denied any such experiment had taken place... READ MORE›
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MOCKS PUTIN IN FRONT OF UNITED NATIONS
On Monday the Ukrainian delegation pointedly left the hall when Russian President Vladimir Putin started speaking... READ MORE›
BERLUSCONI SAYS VLADIMIR PUTIN WANTS HIM TO BECOME RUSSIA'S ECONOMY MINISTER
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 DIES IN MOSCOW FALL
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
President obama russia's putin clash at united nations over syria... READ MORE›
'PUTIN IS OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF TESTING NATO'
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 40 NEW BALLISTIC MISSILES TO NUCLEAR ARSENAL IN 2015
Vladimir Putin announces Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015... READ MORE›
CHESS DRESS 'BAN': MALAYSIAN GIRL'S OUTFIT 'PROVOCATIVE'
The girl was participating in last month's National Scholastic Chess Championship in Putrajaya, just south of Kuala Lumpur... 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›
RUSSIAN STATE TV REPORTER FIRED AFTER CRITICISING VLADIMIR PUTIN
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›
VLADIMIR PUTIN LEAVES G20 EARLY AFTER CRITICISM FROM WORLD LEADERS OVER UKRAINE
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 TO VLADIMIR PUTIN: MEET ME TO DISCUSS 'RIDICULOUS' ANTI-GAY PREJUDICE
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›
PUTIN PLANS AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA IF NO U.S. DEAL REACHED
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
London is a danger zone for Putins Russian critics... 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›
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SHIRTFRONTS VLADIMIR PUTIN INSTEAD
But in three encounters with the Russian president in six days the Australian prime minister largely seems to have missed his chance... READ MORE›
OBAMA TO MEET PUTIN NEXT WEEK AT UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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›
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›