Last Tuesday, 30 November 2021, the English Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose died at the age of 88. In the 1950s and 1960s Penrose was the best British player, and he became internationally famous when he defeated the reigning World Champion Mikhail Tal at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig 1960.
As a chess player, Alexander Alekhine (pictured) was brilliant, but his biography contains a number of dark spots. In particular, his proximity to the Nazis has damaged the reputation of the fourth world champion. The Swiss historian and chess player Dr. Christian Rohrer wanted to find out how and to what extent Alekhine supported the Nazis, and he published his findings in an online article titled <a href="https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bitstream/11682/11576/1/2021 Rohrer Alekhine.pdf">"World chess champion and favourite of Hans Frank?: assessing Alexander Alekhine’s closeness to the National Socialist regime"</a>. Detailed, fascinating and well worth reading.
The Riigikogu doesn't have the option to directly intervene in establishing coronavirus restrictions, Speaker of the Riigikogu and Center Party chair Jüri Ratas says.
New restrictions announced by the government on Tuesday are not sufficiently substantiated, lawyer Paul Keres argues. Announcements of such decisions, important issues concerning the day-to-day life of the state, should be backed up by their reasons, while the Riigikogu being left out of the process means it is also not performing its function, Keres said in an interview with ERR which follows.