Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) and her long-time mentor 叶江川 (Yè Jiāngchuān) sharing with the audience their comments on the games from the 2022 深圳南山 (Shēnzhèn Nánshān) Master Tournament which was held July 15–16 at 南山博物馆 (Nánshān Museum) in 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), China, featuring a friendly team match involving three generations of Chinese chess stars. Photo: China Central Television (CCTV). |
Karpov is finally back on stage! When asked by TASS correspondents whether he would run for the Presidency of Chess Federation of Russia, he avoided to give a clearcut reply: “The elections are still far away, so we’ll see what happens”. Photo: Pelagia Tikhonova/Moscow Municipal News Agency. |
12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov dismissed the declarations of 8th State Duma deputy Roman Igorevich Teryushkov equating the change of sports citizenship with treason as fatally anachronistic. “I think such an idea goes back to the Stalin era or the Middle Ages. Does he want to take away from people the freedom to choice? That is a Stalinist repression”, Karpov told RBC. “No, I never thought of leaving the country, but nevertheless there are people who believe their best interests are served in another country. We cannot paint everyone with the same brush”. |
Unpublished drawings by Andrea Pazienza, made with blue and red spray cans and dating back to 1972, resurfaced during the renovation of his old holiday home in San Menaio, south-east Italy, which belonged to his family until 2003. The mural, which covers the three walls of the smallest room, is signed Paz 72. Photo © Franco Cautullo/ANSA. |
Amedeo Modigliani’s 1908 Nude with a Hat is hung upside down because another painting by him, Maud Abrantes, on the reverse side of the same canvas is oriented correctly, while on display at Haifa University’s Hecht Museum. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP. |
Grandmaster Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin, the anti-hero of Russian chess, is more than ever determined to “refound” the Chess Federation of Russia, which he does not hesitate to regard as a vile “fifth column” — serving private interests of profiteering. Now the target of his attacks was Russian Chess Federation Executive Director Mark Vladimirovich Glukhovsky, guilty of fleeing to another country after February 24, thus abandoning the sinking ship. Indeed, it is quite paradoxical but true that the President of Chess Federation of Russia, with regard to the development of chess as a cultural topic, may make history — for good or bad — much more than any FIDE President. 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, Karjakin’s ideal candidate for President, does not need presentation, he being one of the greatest, if not the greatest, players of all time. Not too jokingly, he could give the odds of a Knight to most of his detractors. But, perhaps, so far, as a politician, he tends to be traditional rather than contemporary. The impression is that the Chess Federation of Russia desperately needs to get out of the still lifes of a falling art. A community is not a mere sum of federated, just as the bio of a champ is not a mere collection of medals and cups and plaques. Karpov knows it even too well, as evidenced by his artistic chess heritage, which marks him as a gifted, intuitive creator and thinker. Maybe he could even do it again, who knows? |
The banned Russian Grandmaster Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin has vehemently attacked the top officials of Chess Federation of Russia, including its President Andrey Vasilievich Filatov, for the lack of support they gave to the needs of the national chess élites. His resentment is undoubtedly increased by the cynicism with which his bosses sacrificed him on the altar of the “real-politik” of times of war, but his vision of how the Chess Federation of Russia should be run is not only a matter of vengeance. And thus, “After much thought and deliberation, I found who I think can be the ideal candidate for the post of President of the Chess Federation of Russia — it is Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov!”, Karjakin said through his Telegram account. And Karpov is, it might be said, a heavy candidate, though perhaps not the most welcome one for wide-scale communities — not necessarily for demerit of his own. |
Who’s that girl? Simple. Just visit the Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” website and abandon yourself in the search for Cinderella’s shoe. |
Like Serepta Mason in the Spoon River Anthology, he can shout “My flowering side you never saw!”. |
Just hours after triumphing at Wimbledon, Novak Đoković confirmed to the press his determination not to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination requirements to enter the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. “I’m not vaccinated and I’m not planning to get vaccinated so the only good news I can have is them removing the mandated green vaccine card or whatever you call it to enter United States or exemption”, Đoković told ESPN on Sunday. In the aftermath of Đoković’s triumph on the Centre Court, the intransigency of the “vaccinators” sounds rather grotesque than dogmatic, as the Serbian star is the only one unvaccinated among the top 100 players but also one of the greatest players of all time. Thus, the legendary John McEnroe made an appeal to politicians for a rethinking of their approach: “These politicians are getting in the way too much”, he said. “They did it in Australia. Let’s let the guy come in and play in the U.S. I mean, come on. This is ridiculous”. |
Serbian tennis star Novak Đoković celebrates being crowned Wimbledon champion for seventh time — and fourth consecutive one — following a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory over Nick Kyrgios in the men’s singles final. Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. |
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