Norway’s Magnus Carlsen competing in Dubai in 2020.
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Air pollution causes chess players to make more errors – this may have implications for high-skilled professionals.
The government should invest in chess to foster more Canadian success at international competitions.
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Chess affords young people a host of interdisciplinary skills, Canada should invest in teaching them how to play it.
The white-moves-first rule became standard in the late 1800s.
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Ever since the late 1800s, it has been standard for white to go first in chess. Has the time come to get rid of that rule?
American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, shown here at the 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Masters tournament, could become the first American-born world chess champion since Bobby Fischer.
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Daaim Shabazz, an international business professor and chess journalist, explains what’s at stake as American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana fights for the World Chess Championship in London this month.