Archive for September 4th, 2011

Ethics at 2011 World Cup

Posted in FIDE, World Cup on Sep 4th, 2011 3 Comments »

While watching the 2011 World Cup broadcast, I was particularly intrigued with the Alexander Moiseenko and David Navara because they had reached a textbook ending… queen versus rook and pawn. Navara (the stronger side) had shown how to wrest the remaining pawn away and then set sights on executing the well-known endgame problem. After a […]

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“Chess for Peace” in Ghana

Posted in Africa, Ghana on Sep 4th, 2011 1 Comment »

This article was posted by Abby Emmanuel Alo for monroi.com. We have all heard of “chess diplomacy”. Alo appears to believe in a new concept of chess for human enlightment. It is not clear from the essay what the plan is but a plan involving the youth must be given some consideration. I contacted him […]

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