Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) will be visiting King’s Land Centre (KLC) summer camps, July 15–18 in Fremont, California, United States, and July 22–25, 2024 in Pleasanton, California, United States. Seats are limited so sign up early! For further details and information, click here. |
Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) performing a simultaneous exhibition of her skills at The “SCO Kazakhstan Rotating President’s Cup” Chess Tournament in 北京 (Běijīng), China, April 29, 2024. Photos: Chinese Chess Association and Press service of the SCO Secretariat. |
Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) was invited as the guest of honour at The “SCO Kazakhstan Rotating President’s Cup” Chess Tournament in 北京 (Běijīng), China, April 29, 2024. |
Speaking with the 北京日报 (Běijīng Daily) correspondent, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) emphasized and praised the opportunity for the SCO countries to enhance and broaden their relations through a highly educational metalanguage such as chess. Photo: 北京日报 (Běijīng Daily). |
In alphabetical order, Arianna, Letizia and Viola enjoying a belated birthday pizza dinner together. |
In alphabetical order, from top to bottom, Arianna, Letizia and Viola enjoying a belated birthday pizza dinner together. |
Outra jogadora que dá esperanças é a “signorina” Clarice Benini, colocada em 2° lugar em Semmering. È filha de um antigo jogador italiano, de fama, e promete multo, pela vivacidade de seu jogo. Another player with great hopes is “Miss” [In italian in the text] Clarice Benini, who finished second at Semmering. She is the daughter of a famous old Italian player and promises much due to the vivacity of her play. Jornal do Brasil, Sunday, October 4, 1936, p. 15. |
A paparazzo spotted 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer at Capital Circus of Budapest in 2000 and snapped his picture, which appeared on the frontpage and at page 9 of Somogyi Hírlap on Sunday, November 24, 2002. Photo: László Temesi. |
Above is a bad quality picture taken from Tolnai Népújság, Saturday, February 5, 2000, p. 12, showing 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer seated on tram #47 heading for the Gellért Baths, Budapest, Hungary. Photo: László Temesi. |
A picture taken from the Hungarian periodical A Hét (The Week), No. 12, Friday, March 18, 1994, p. 6, shows Zita Rajcsányi, the woman who brought Bobby Fischer back to chess, in the foreground at the board. The caption reads, “The marriage proposal is just a journalists’ boutade”. Photo: László Polgár’s Archive. |
A pro-Palestinian activist looks on as she participates in the celebrations of the 79th Anniversary of Italy’s Liberation Day from nazism and fascism, in Rome, April 25, 2024. Photo: Yara Nardi/Reuters. |
Fischer and Spassky shake hands before their first game in the World Chess Championship Revenge Match of the Twentieth Century in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia, September 2 1992. Photo: Dragan Filpović/Getty Images. |
Fischer in Yugoslavia in July 1958 with Belgrade TV journalist Miodrag Ilić. Photo: Borba Archive. |
Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, 1992: The World Chess Championship. The Chess Champion Bobby Fischer vs. the Challenger Boris Vasilievich Spassky. The Revenge Match of
the Twentieth Century. The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a cease and desist order to enjoin Fischer from any further violation of President George H. W. Bush’s Executive Order 12810 imposing sanctions on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). In response, during the inaugural press conference on September 1, 1992, in front of the world’s press, Fischer spat on the U.S. order, saying “This is my reply to the order not to defend my title here”. United States issued a warrant for Fischer’s arrest, and he will never return to his home country. Photo: Borba Archive. |
