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    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Chess
      Chess: Fide raises profile of women’s game with Grand Prix

      Puzzle: how to break down Black’s defences?

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Chess
      Seven-year-old achieves historic performance in UK women’s blitz

      Puzzle: how can White strike first?

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Chess
      Ukrainian grandmaster moves to check Russia’s domination of world chess federation

      Andrii Baryshpolets seeks to harness international sympathy for Kyiv to end Moscow’s longstanding rule of Fide

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Enter the inner sanctum of elite chess

      Eight grandmasters gathered in Madrid this month for an international summit of sorts. They were playing for the future of chess

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Chess
      Nepo wins Candidates again as Carlsen asks for new world title format

      Puzzle: can you mate Black’s boxed and lonely king?

    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
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      Countdown to candidates as favourite Firouzja reappears after five months

      Puzzle: can you do better than resigning?

    • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
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      World Chess announces plans for ‘hybrid IPO’

      Company that markets World Chess Championship intends to list on UK’s Aim in 2020

    • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
      FT Investigations
      How chess became a pawn in the Kremlin’s power game

      An FT investigation into how Russia won a bitter battle to control the global game

    • Tuesday, 29 January, 2019
      Sport
      Checkmate: Former chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to retire

      Kramnik held world champion title from 2000 to 2007

    • Friday, 4 November, 2016
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      Chess makes a move to become commercial success

      Tickets for next week’s world championship in New York will cost from $75 to $3,000

    • Wednesday, 7 October, 2015
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      Politics divides chess’ loyal followers

      The re-election of Fide’s president has not stopped calls for reform

    • Monday, 24 November, 2014
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      Carlsen’s chess victory a triumph for man over supercomputer

      Way in which world champion defeated opponent reinforces view that he is best the game has seen

    • Sunday, 23 November, 2014
      Sport
      Anand gives Carlsen a harder fight

      Challenger showed a positive and necessary shift in mentality

    • Sunday, 23 November, 2014
      World
      King Carlsen retains world chess crown

      Norwegian beats Anand with game to spare

    • Thursday, 6 November, 2014
      World
      Magnus Carlsen has just one advantage in chess title rematch

      Norwegian to square off against Anand in Sochi for world title

    • Friday, 6 December, 2013
      London fights for its future
      King’s rook to left hook

      City workers’ new craze of fighting in the ring and on the chess board

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