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Arts & Culture, Chess Corner, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:00 - 3 Comments
Chess Corner – Original Maverick: Remembering Tony Miles
In this week's Chess Corner, Paul Lam pays homage to Tony Miles, one of the greatest players of his generation. Miles was a flawed, irreverent, gentle genius, whose tragic early death robbed the chess world of one of its true, irreplaceable originals.
Chess Corner, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 7, 2010 12:00 - 6 Comments
Chess Corner: The eccentric, ruthless despot who controls chess
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the ruling dictator of a former Soviet republic, a multimillionaire businessman, and a self-declared alien-abductee. He is also the chess world's biggest patron. This week, after a fraught and bitterly contested campaign, he was re-elected as president of the World Chess Federation. Paul Lam examines the dark, surreal saga of Kirsan's rule.
