Robert Hübner is the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker. At the height of his career, the grandmaster from Cologne was ranked third in the world behind Karpov and Korchnoi. With his scientific training, Hübner also took a scientific interest in the game of chess. The multiple World Championship candidate turns 75 today. | Photo: Robert Hübner during a lecture about a game he played in Tilburg 1985 against Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Photo: Hartmut Metz)
Halfway through the tournament, GM Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia and WGM Zhu Jiner of China are sharing the lead at the first leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Astana, Kazakhstan. The top two players of the Grand Prix will qualify for the next FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament. How to watch?
Speculation has been wild. Elon Musk even tweeted about a conspiracy theory that Niemann had used a vibrating sex toy to relay the correct plays to him
Speculation has been wild. Elon Musk even tweeted about a conspiracy theory that Niemann had used a vibrating sex toy to relay the correct plays to him
Sergey Karjakin was born in 1990 in Simferopol, the second-largest city in Crimea – Ukrainian territory that was annexed by Russia in 2014. At 12 he became (at the time) the youngest grandmaster in history. In the past months, Karjakin publicly supported the Russian assault on Ukraine, for which he was banned for six months from all FIDE chess competitions. Now he has sought revenge with a deep-fake call to FIDE Director General GM Emil Sutovsky. The British Chess Magazine reports.