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SportAccord Stats: Chess Popularity on the Rise
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Here is an interesting report via Fide on the increasing popularity of chess. It is based on the statistics with...
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Green Chess: Print, Plant and Play!
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,This is a neat theme chess set. You can go green while playing chess, and the best part is you don't have to go...
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27th Belgrade Chess Open 2013: GM Tosic Miroslav wins on Tiebreak ahead of IM...
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Grandmaster Miroslav Tosic has won the 27th Belgrade Chess Open Championship for the Belgrade Trophy after...
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World team Chess Round 8: Russia Leads with one Round to go; Ukraine, China...
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Russia is leading the World Team Chess Championship 2013, with 13 match points, after eight rounds in Antalya,...
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Fiji National Chess Championship 2013 begins this Friday
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,The Fiji National Chess Championship 2013 is set to begin on Saturday with top seed being Manoj Kumar who is the...
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Antalya World Chess Team 2013: Russia wins Title, Board 4 Gold for...
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Russia has won the World Chess Team Championship 2013 in Antalya, Turkey. Ukraine had lead the chess championship...
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London Chess Classic 2013 Super Sixteen Draw Announced
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,On the same day as the football World Cup draw is made in Brazil, the London Chess Classic is also officially...
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World Chess Championship Match-Experience is bit Over-Rated as Factor: Magnus...
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was cornered for a series of interviews right after beating Viswanathan Anand...
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RIP Nelson Mandela: Of Chess Set Mandela gave Queen Elizabeth!
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,We are reminded of two Chess Blog posts from the archives as we pay tribute to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the...
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Fiji Chess Championship 2013 Begins
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Twelve-year-old Menash Fareed upset Candidate Master Goru Arvind in the first round of the National Chess...
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Danyyil Dvirnyy is Italian Chess Champion 2013
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013Hello everyone,Grandmaster-elect Danyyil Dvirnyy convincingly won the 73rd Italian Chess Championship by finishing the event with...
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SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge first major sponsor for Chess Olympiad 2014
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014 has presented its first major sponsor – Sparebanken Nord-Norge. Sparebanken...
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London Chess Classic 2013 Chess in Schools and Communities Events for Kids
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,The 5th London Chess Classic takes place at Olympia from Saturday 7th December to Sunday 15th December 2013. CSC...
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Chess players compete in Germany to help street children in Istanbul
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,The intercultural Chess Club “Satranç Club 2000“organized the 7th Intercultural Rapid Chess Tournament in...
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Kuala Lumpur Chess Tournament helps Raise funds for Haiyan Typhoon Victims
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Kuala Lumpur (Dec 8, 2013): The Cheras Chess Academy raised RM5,770 to help typhoon Haiyan victims by organising...
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Battle of Generations Chess Match: Alexei Shirov defeats Daniil Dubov
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,The Moscow-based Center for New Technologies “Digital” hosted the Battle of Generations match between GM Daniil...
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Chess History Trivia Photo: Identify Everyone!
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,In this chess players' photo from the archives of Russian Chess site Chesspro.ru, can you identify everyone? We...
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Bahrain International Open Rapid Chess Championship 2013 held
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,You don't usually find lots of chess news coming in from Bahrain. Here's a nice chess update that we are happy to...
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Wendell Muesa is Guyana National Chess Champion 2013
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,Some national chess news from Guyana: With some consistent chess, Wendell Muesa earned 6 points and became the...
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SportAccord World Mind Games (Chess): World's Top GMs play Rapid, Blitz in...
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone,The opening ceremony of the Mind Sports Games Chess 2013 is going to take place today in Beijing. The games begin...
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