Any Lost (TV series) fan out there. The show is now in Season 3 and is shown every Monday 10.30pm on 8TV.Episode 20 features a chess game between “the others”. The episode is titled “The Man Begined the Curtain”. That’s when Locke goes to see the Other’s mysterious leader Jacob. For those who are not [...]

“I was taken from my apartment in Moscow to this spaceship,” he said in a recent television interview. “We went to some star. After that I said ‘Please bring me back’ because the next day I had to go to Kalmykia and then to Ukraine, and they said ‘No problem, Kirsan, you have time’.”
He rejects [...]

More chess in Bollywood ..
Akshaye Khanna.
He is currently shooting for Abbas Mastan’s next project ‘Race’ with Saif Ali Khan in Yash Raj Studio, where once during a break Akshaye pulled everybody from cast to crew to play chess with him.
The director duo was also not spared by his addiction.
On the sets of ‘Naqaab’ too, in [...]

I guess Graham Gelineau, winner of the Canadian Lotter of C$37 million (RM 220 million ) can afford this
Thirty craftsmen, under the direction of Maquin spent over 4500 hours creating the expensive chess set. The work was done all by hand and when it was completed, the artists used 1168.75 grams of 14 [...]

Graham Gelineau, a 55-year-old Toronto man who lives alone in a rooming house and relies on disability payments, found himself in a new world after picking up a cheque for C$37 million (18 million pounds) on Monday.
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Asked what he would buy with his fortune, Gelineau said, “A new chess set.”
complete [...]

I was pleasantly surprised when I heard this on my daily Slate podcast (internet radio).
Ten years ago today, a computer beat the world chess champion in a six-game match. Since then, human champs have played three more matches against machines, scoring two draws and a loss. Grandmasters are being crushed. The era of human dominance [...]

Previous record holders of being the youngest GMs in the world.
YearPlayer Country Age
1955Boris Spassky Soviet Union 18 yr
1958Bobby Fischer United States 15 yr, 6 mths, 1 day
1991Judit Polgar… Continue reading | 3 Comments

It’s not correct grammatically to say “eat your opponent’s piece” it should be “capture your opponent’s piece”.
Here however it’s a different story. You can eat your opponent’s piece or even the whole chess board
(original source from Boing Boing)… Continue reading | 1 Comment

This article mentions India’s Umakant Sharma rated ELO 2400+ cheating using a bluetooth device.
From the article, it sounds like it was a bluetooth ear piece that is normally used with a handphone.
But how does he actually cheat with it? I guess he could go to the loo and call an accomplice who is using a [...]

American movie star Jamie Foxx confesses an addiction for chess since he was seven or eight years old.
He has acted in movies such as Stealth (2005),Ray (2004) and Collateral (2004).

He says, “My biological father taught me how to play chess - I don’t know whether it was because he wanted us to bond over [...]