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MYSTERIOUS: 2 - What They Never Told You

Everything in the world must be converted into a roguelike, and not even chess is safe with a new game "that changes all the rules"

A possibly sacrilegious amount of change

GamesRadar

Chess: 10-year-old targets world record alongside grandmasters at British Championship

Record entry in Liverpool, while Bodhana Sivanandan bids to become youngest national women’s champion

The Guardian - UK

Magnus Carlsen shows how Saudi Arabia gobbles up global sports stars

The outstanding chess player of his generation is the latest figure to be associated with a kingdom that uses entertainment to pacify the public

The Guardian - US

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Chess betting gets a big boost from BETBY for Esports World Cup

Bold moves in the modern betting era for chess.

Dot Esports

ChatGPT is no match for a 40-year-old digital Pocket Chess game, and I bet Garry Kasparov would be pleased

Bad move

TechRadar

Pellegrini and Betis familiar pawns in Maresca’s search for winning move

Chelsea can become the first English team to win all four European trophies – and much of their manager’s strategy is rooted in chess

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Carlsen scores in Paris, leads Freestyle Grand Slam after two events

The world No 1 defeated his old rival and world No 2, Hikaru Nakamura, in the final, and took the $3.75m series lead before the third Slam event in Las Vegas

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Sue Perkins says chess is ‘hot’ calling BBC series contestants ‘extraordinary’

The 55-year old former Bake Off presenter said she has never seen ‘passion like it’ on her new BBC series Chess Masters: The Endgame.

Evening Standard

The wrong trousers: how sporting dress codes can create an image problem

Magnus Carlsen’s jeans put the spotlight on chess’s sartorial intransigence but it is not the only sport struggling to adapt to modern style

The Guardian - UK

Chess is now an esport as Esports World Cup adds the 1,500 year-old game to 2025 event, calls it 'the perfect example of how games evolve'

And Magnus Carlsen is "thrilled" to be on board.

PC Gamer

Teenage prodigy Gukesh D defeats Ding Liren to become youngest world chess champion

Eighteen-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has become the new world chess champion, winning the final game of the title match after a dramatic blunder from the reigning champ, China’s Ding Liren.

The Conversation

After 20 years at the top of chess, Magnus Carlsen is making his next move

Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity

The Independent UK

Magnus Carlsen: ‘Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that’

The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game

The Guardian - UK

In Ding decision, larger picture considered

China always likes to be a spoilsport. And they have a cold logic to defend their decision. Chess fans were looking forward to the game between D Gukesh and Ding Liren on the top board in the seventh round on Wednesday ahead of their World Championship clash starting in Singapore…

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Hungarian GM's gesture gives Arjun's fans and chess followers reason to smile

Cerebral supremacy has a quiet undertone to it. It tells the inferior performer that he is not good enough.

The Conversation

Australia’s corporate watchdog is suing our largest stock exchange. What’s going on?

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is unusual in the world of finance.

The Guardian - UK

Soul, psychedelia and sensuality: Minnie Riperton’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years on from Riperton’s biggest album, Perfect Angel, we look back at the joyous, octave-jumping oeuvre that turned her from backing singer to pop star

Louder

A guide to harmonica blues in five essential albums

Blues just wouldn’t be the same without the wailing of the harp. Here we celebrate the people who blew the hardest

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The Guardian - UK

Chess: Carlsen wins in Casablanca as new variant tests historic skills

The world No 1 identified most of the six positions from previous world championships and exploited Vishy Anand’s unfamiliarity with a classic from Havana 1889

The Guardian - UK

Chess: England seniors score triple European gold and eye world titles

England over-50s edged out Italy and Hungary on tie-break, while England over-65s shone at the European senior championships in Slovenia

Broadcasting & Cable

Play.Works Moves Forward With Chess.com VOD App

Matches, original shows and instructional programs to be featured

The Hindu

Chennai GM Chess Championship | Anti-cheating measures in chess should be stricter, says Levon Aronian

Grandmasters discuss need for anti-cheating measures in Chess at Chennai Championship.

Evening Standard

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann tells Piers Morgan he did not use sex toy to cheat during tournament

The 20-year-old told Piers Morgan that the allegations were ‘disheartening’

The Hindu

Gukesh excited about the Asian Games, feels India has a fair chance

Excited for his first Asian Games, D. Gukesh is optimistic about India's chances in chess. He recently had a camp with Boris Gelfand and is looking forward to watching other sports. He had a tough time in the rapid section of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament, but was pleased…

The Hindu

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa along with his parents meet PM Modi

18-yr-old Chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa, along with his parents, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and thanked him for words of encouragement.

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