On October 7th, in their brutal attack, Hamas took 240 hostages from Israel. After tough negotiations some of them are being currently released. In world-wide actions people showed their support – including in chess circles. In Savion, Hungarian-Israeli IM Sofia Polgar held a simultaneous exhibition in order to show concern and solidarity. Sofia has sent us a report with some very moving pictures.
Three Tunisian youth chess players were disqualified from the last round of the 2023 International Chess Federation (FIDE) World School Chess Championship that concluded Sunday in Greece after refusing to compete against opponents from Israel a total of 12 times throughout the tournament, The Algemeiner has learned. The Tunisian chess players, whose identities FIDE would
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Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
Bhutanese and Israeli chess players in a friendly online chess match on January 21, 2021 just weeks after the two countries agreed to diplomatic relations Courtesy Chess4All)
It’s only been about six weeks since Israel and Bhutan agreed to formal diplomatic relations, and the two countries are already engaged in chess tournaments.
There were more than 170 participants in the first-ever, online friendship chess competition played between the countries last Thursday, with 29 chess players from Bhutan.
“Chess is a communication tool between people of our countries,” said Russian-born Israeli chess player Boris Gelfand, just ahead of the Bhutan-Israel match.