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Indian chess champion Viswanathan Anand and his Israeli rival Boris Gelfand agreed Saturday to play a $2.5-million series of matches in a historic Moscow art gallery for the 2012 world crown.The May 10-21 series will be played inside Moscow's Tretyakov State Gallery ...

Armenia's top chess players, lauded as heroes after winning the 2011 World Team Chess Championship this week, vowed on Friday to boost the small chess-mad country's status in the game even further.The team's head coach said that future successes will be secured ...

Investors should not be surprised if precious metals and miners consolidate after such an impressive reversal over the past few weeks.The market wires are ablaze recently with news that all is well in the relationship between Athens and the elites of the ...

They may be from the opposite ends of the sporting spectrum, but the worlds of boxing and chess will collide on Friday to decide whether London or Berlin has the toughest and smartest sportsmen.Dubbed the Battle of the Cities, Berlin takes on ...

The controversial head of world chess said Monday he had no regrets about playing a game with Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli, boasting that he outclassed the Libyan leader but in the end offered a draw.Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the World Chess ...

Libyan state television showed footage of Moamer Kadhafi playing chess with the head of the World Chess Federation, as fighting between the Libyan strongman's forces and rebels raged on many fronts on Monday.The images broadcast late Sunday showed the chess game between ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov sees a hole in the European education system and he knows how to fix it -- one pawn at a time.Aspiring to hone children's critical thinking, intellectual creativity and problem-solving skills, Kasparov, regarded ...

Armenia is to make chess a compulsory subject in primary schools in an attempt to turn itself into a global force in the game, the education ministry said on Friday."Teaching chess in schools will create a solid basis for the country to ...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An Icelandic court said on Thursday the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer should inherit his estimated $2 million estate, which has been in dispute since his death in 2008.Fischer spent the last years of his life ...

Former chess champion turned Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov has won a big-money charity television quiz in neighbouring Georgia, the programme's producer said on Tuesday.Kasparov managed to answer all the questions correctly on the quiz programme "Who Wants to Win 20,000?", a ...

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Topic: Chess

Anand to play Gelfand for 2012 chess title

Chess-mad Armenia's heroes return in triumph

Greek canary sings a golden tune

Chess-boxing: High-brow bruisers clash for bragging rights

Chess tsar unrepentant over 'game with Kadhafi'

Kadhafi plays chess as fighting rages across Libya

Champion Kasparov puts chess at heart of learning

Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools

Widow of chess ace Bobby Fischer to inherit: court

Russia's Kasparov 'wins Georgian TV quiz show'

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