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Platform schools student emerges national chess champion
and a coveted ticket to represent Nigeria at the 2025 Africa Individual Chess Championship. He has also been named the poster boy of the Nigeria Chess Federation. Director of Platform Schools ...
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Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, has made history. Can the prodigy become the youngest chess world champion?
Over the next few weeks, Gukesh, still fresh into adulthood, could become the youngest-ever chess world champion. By qualifying for this month’s 2024 World Chess Championship in Singapore ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.
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Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88
Spassky, who took French nationality in 1978, was the 10th World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969-1972, when he lost it to American Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik in a contest later dubbed ...
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Ding Liren becomes China’s first world chess champion after victory over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion on Sunday after a rapid-play tiebreak victory over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan. Ding, 30, takes over as winner of the World ...