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Bodhana Sivanandan just took down Grandmaster Ameet Ghasi at the 2026 British Chess Championships in Coventry. And when I say took down, I mean completely destroyed. The 11-year-old is moving up a class.

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Is Chess a Form of Art? Our art critic Deborah Solomon was one of 50 players to go up against a chess grandmaster for Marcel Duchamp’s 139th birthday celebration at MoMA, exploring the game as an art form. Video by Deborah Solomon and Haimy Assefa www.nytimes.com/video/arts/1...

Video: Is Chess a Form of Art?

Our art critic Deborah Solomon was one of 50 players to go up against a chess grandmaster for Marcel Duchamp’s 139th birthday celebration at MoMA, exploring the game as an art form.

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In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑

The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

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[July 26th, 1926] A chess game played by mail likely saved the life of Louis D. Kovach. The game began in January 1924 while Kovach was on his deathbed. After two and a half years, he made a final move that checkmated his brother. Doctors believe the game gave him the determination to recover.

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"Die Situation könnte sich ändern," hat mir @phchess.bsky.social kürzlich erzählt. Die Position von Dworkowitsch sei nicht mehr so stark, weil sein Name immer wieder im Zusammenhang mit EU-Sanktionen falle. Genau so ist es jetzt gekommen. www.dw.com/de/schach-ve... #Schach via @deutschewelle.dw.com

Schach: Verliert Russland seinen Einfluss im Weltverband?

Bisher hält Russland im internationalen Schach die Fäden in der Hand. Das könnte sich ändern: Gleich zwei Deutsche streben in der FIDE auf den Chefposten.

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