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The organizers of a chess tournament are suing a website for reporting the results of the matches, live. I think it's too much to ask people to wait for SportsCenter to report the results that night. [ChessVibes] More »
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Vladislav Tkachiev, a French grandmaster by way of Moscow and Kazakhstan, was disqualified from a tournament in India when he fell asleep at the table. To be fair, chess is very boring. And he was drunk. More »
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Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine is the third-ranked player in the world, but he faces a two-year ban from his game because he failed a drug test. A drug test. In chess. More »
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Garry Kasparov's love-hate relationship with technology continued on Saturday, as the former World Chess Champion was buzzed by a remote controlled flying penis during a political speech in Moscow. As reported by Gizmodo yesterday, Kasparov seemed bemused by the brief encounter, which ended when an aide swatted the penis to the floor and stomped on it (a little too enthusiastically, if you ask me. Um, Dr. Freud? ...). Most-probably-not-safe-for-work photo after the jump. More »
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"What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art." — Searching For Bobby Fischer. Robert James Fischer was equal parts genius and raging lunatic; icon and iconoclast in the same tightly wound package. And he was quite possibly the most intriguing personality of the Cold War period of the 1960s and '70s. Talk about your anti-heroes; Barry Bonds is a pipsqueak when placed beside this most irascible of coots. Fischer died on Thursday in a Reykjavík, iceland hospital due to an undetermined illness. He was 64. More »
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Today's high school student-athletes face so many more distractions than yesteryear, even at the high school level: national media scrutiny, drugs, and pretty girls. Not so with chess players (such as the one pictured here — I believe this is a young Keith Olbermann) although they have it tough as well. They can't always find a stable Wi-Fi connection at school to play World of Warcraft between classes. Some also suffer from chronic backne. But what once separated chess players from the rest of the varsity world was their ability to play by the rules. Now the lines are blurred. More »
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If only chessboxing had come along a couple of decades earlier, we could have had some of the most entertaining championship bouts known to mankind. "Holmes is attempting to move his queen while still wearing his boxing gloves; pieces are flying everywhere! Spinks believes his bishop is made of chocolate ... and now he's eaten it! And that's the end of round two!" More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=320792&view=rss&microfeed=true Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov is running for president of Russia. He's a strong advocate for equal rights, democracy, and moving rook to H3. [Boston Globe] More »
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The Miami-Dade Community College chess team — as seen above — has steamrolled several Ivy League schools to reach the Intercollegiate Chess Final Four. Naturally, we demand a steroids investigation. More »
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As if you didn't know, the Asian Games begin today in Doha, Qatar. And no one involved is taking any chances. One of the events is chess (seriously), and before they can compete, all participants had to be tested for performance enhancers. More »
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The world of chess has been brought to its knees. Controversy has gripped the sport, and play has been suspended in the World Championships. ChessBase.com says "the World Championship and FIDE is in its deepest crisis ever." Why? Because Vladimir Kramnik can't drag himself away from the shitter. More »
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If you know anything about us, you know that we love a good chess brawl. And the more sex and international intrigue thrown in, the better. So come with us now as we recount a story that is a few days old, actually, but one we cannot ignore, because hey, it's chess! Our players are British grandmaster Danny Gormally, Armenia's Levon Aronian — the No. 3 player in the world — and teenage Australian champion Arianne Caoili, dubbed "the Anna Kournikova of chess." Gormally had reportedly had an Internet relationship with Caoili, but things went awry during the World Chess Olympiad in Italy, when Gormally caught Caoili dancing with Aronian at a Turin nightclub. Gormally cut in and punched Aronian, knocking him to the floor. Thus, we get this fine quote, from Caoili's mother: "She's salsa crazy and was probably dancing salsa and looking a bit sexy and that's why [Gormally] got upset.'' More »
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