‘. . . Hillary Clinton asserted that Donald Trump is “playing checkers and Putin is playing three-dimensional chess”. . . In fact, there is no evidence that Putin plays chess, and in any case, it is not his sort of game. Chess is a contest of…
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John L. Watson [This withering indictment of the stupidity and arrogance of chess players was written over 16 years ago. It is still relevant today and lends weight to Sarah Hurst’s recent observation that ‘chess brilliance has nothing to do with high intelligence in other areas,…
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Kingpin reader Eileen Bristow quizzes the former World Champion. Eileen Bristow: Do you accept that you often contradict yourself? Garry Kasparov: No I do. If you would like to interview a chess personality, send your question to kingpinchess@yahoo.com
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