The world chess champion commented on the results of FC Barcelona. “It’s good that everything is clear in the Inter match. We can focus on chess and Barcelona’s entry into the Europa League,” – said Carlsen, who supports Real Madrid. Yesterday, Inter defeated Victoria Plzen 4-0 at home, and Barcelona lost to Bayern 0:2 at…
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Icelandic grandmaster Hjorvar Gretarsson, who is a lawyer by training, said that American chess player Hans Niemann has filed a complaint with the court and plans to sue the Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen for 100$ million. “Such money — it makes no sense. It’s just that in the USA they like to put up…
Russian grandmaster Alexey Dreev believes that Hans Niemann played fair against Magnus Carlsen. “He is guilty of using a computer in an online tournament when he was 12 years old and confessed to it, but he is not guilty of what he is accused of. At the tournament with Carlsen, he did not use a…
The world chess champion commented on the lawsuit of the American grandmaster Hans Niemann in the amount of 100$ million directed against him. Earlier, the Norwegian accused Niemann of cheating. “I’m still focused on chess. I’m not going to use Niemann’s actions as an excuse, no matter how my affairs turn out,” Carlsen said. Not…
The traditional weekly online tournament “Titled-Tuesday”, held on the gaming platform, has ended “Chess.com “. 417 players with international titles took part in the tournament with a prize fund of $ 5,000. The victory was won by American grandmaster Sam Shankland, with a score of 10 points out of 11. In second place is Jose…
Levon Aronian suggested that Elon Musk talk about music in a similar way as about chess: “12 notes, the same for everyone, a limited number of harmonies, only major and minor keys…”
Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli participated in the podcast of Tilly Khan and Michael Busse dedicated to the “Year of Women in Chess”. podcast
One of the Twitter users asked the billionaire engineer: “Do you play chess yourself?” “I played as a child,” he explained, “but it seemed to me then that the game was too simple to be useful in real life: a simple 8—by—8 grid, no fog of war, a technological tree, a random map, positions of…
One of the richest people on the planet, Elon Musk, reacted to the harsh remarks of Garry Kasparov, which he expressed on an American TV channel. In particular, the 13th world champion condemned ambiguous political views on the situation in Ukraine. “Although Kasparov plays chess almost as well as my iPhone, otherwise he is an…
Craig Reiser, the lawyer of the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, spoke about the decision of the American grandmaster Hans Niemann to sue the Norwegian. “Niemann admitted that he had cheated in the past. This trial is nothing more than an attempt to shift the blame to others. His accusations are groundless,” – Raiser said….