The traditional Minsk Open international boxing tournament in memory of Vladimir Botvinnik, Honored Coach of Belarus, has ...

Nigel Short and I are looking at a 1943 game between Mikhail Botvinnik and Evgeny Zagoriansky. This is the story so far: 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. b3 Nf6 4. Bb2 Be7 5. e3 0-0 6. Nc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8.

The tournament features young athletes born in 2010–2011 from seven countries. Konstantin Tszyu and Dmitry Pirog visited the ...

For many years, chess players associated winning with the Soviet Union and afterward, with Russia. The Soviets had created a hegemony on chess and world champions – except for Cuba’s Jose Raul ...

The world is enjoying a boom in chess playing following ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ TV series’ sweeping success. We’ve boiled down a list of Soviet chess legends who proved that chess is mental ...