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In this clip from the Norwegian/Swedish talkshow Skavlan, chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen takes on Microsoft gazillionaire boffin Bill Gates.
To make the match fair, Gates is given two minutes on the clock while Carlsen has just 30 seconds to work with.
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Henry Street, Dublin, moments ago
Garry McNulty writes:
Lady trying to raise money, challenging people to three minute speed chess…
Back in 2010, ten year-old chess prodigy Samuel Sevian played an impromptu game of speed chess at the US Chess School in LA with visiting international grandmaster Greg Shahade.
The game took about four minutes.
Pieces were knocked over. 7-Up was chugged. An ass was handed to its owner.
Gardai were called to a top chess tournament after one of Limerick’s best players claimed he caught his opponent “redhanded” cheating by using a computer tablet to get moves from a chess engine. “After each move, he went to the toilet at least 20 times. I found him in the toilet with an Android checking the moves with a chess engine. I tried to get over the cubicle wall to grab the tablet from his hands and firstly, I was thinking to jump over that cubicle. The organisers followed me inside where I forced the cubicle door and I pulled this guy out from the toilet.”
The classic Ruy Lopez opening.
White moves king’s bishop to the fifth cubicle.
Via: Limerick Leader
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Call this a hen party?
Irish chess master Mark Quinn At The Russian Festival of Culture today in Temple Bar, Dublin.
The little girl has just played a queen sacrifice on c3 to set up a classic ‘Boden’s Mate’.
The little minx.
Instagram via Gribers
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Mate before your pawns melt. Soak a perfectly good chess board for $13.
