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For years, cricket, that too male cricket, has dominated the Indian sports. However, in past few years, other sports, too, are finally the due respect and credit they deserve. Indian athletes and sportspersons have made us proud in many tournaments including Olympics. Along with sports like badminton and hockey, wresting, weight lifting, and javelin throw are also getting recognition. Recently, Chennai hosted the Chess Olympiad.

In recent times, with Indian players making waves in the chess field, Twitter influencers Abhi and Niyu on Sunday tweeted how Chess is the new cricket. To that, Magnus Carlsen listed out four reasons why chess isnt cricket.

Carlsen said how chess is played on a field with humans, while chess is played on a board with wooden pieces. He added that while cricket has a bat and a ball, chess usually doesnt. Further, cricket needs 22 players while chess only needs two. And finally he said that chess is not the new cricket since he does not play cricket.

On August 22, 17 year old Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen at the FTX Crypto Cup, the American finale of the Champions Chess Tour, in Miami. This is the third time in the last six months that Praggnanandhaa has defeated Carlsen. Praggnanandhaa won the game in the blitz tiebreaker after the score was tied at 2-2.

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Emory Andrew Tate Jr. was an American chess player and father of American Kickboxer and social media influencer, Andrew Tate. He was referred to as absolutely a trailblazer for African-American chess by Maurice Ashley, the first black grandmaster.

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Emory Tate was born in the year 1958 in Chicago, US. His father Emory Andrew Tate Sr. was a famous attorney. He started playing chess when he was young. His linguistic abilities were extremely useful while he was a sergeant in the United States Air Force.

Andrew Tate said, The military taught him Russian. He picked up Spanish and German by accident.

During his stint at the Air Force in the 1980s he developed expertise in the game of chess and became professional. Andrew Tate, his oldest son said, I never saw him study chess books, ever. He also hated chess computers and never used them. He just sat down and played.

Tate was ranked as the 72nd highest-rated player in the United States and among the top 2000 active players in the world in October 2006 with a FIDE (International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation organization) rating of 2413.

On the April 1997 list, his highest USCF (United States Chess Federation) rating was 2499. Following his third norm at the World Open in 2006, he was awarded the international master title in 2007.

He triumphed in around 80 tournament games against Grandmaster and developed a reputation as a clever and perilous tactician. Tate took first place in the US Armed Forces Chess Championship five times.

He was admitted into the Indiana State Chess Hall of Fame in 2005 after capturing the state title six times (1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006, and 2007). Additionally, he was the state champion for Alabama in 2010.

Leroy Hill, his colleague at US Air Force and 2003 United States Armed Forces Chess Champion said, All the players had street names. Emorys was Extraterrestrial because we thought his play was out of this world.

If anyone had watched Tate play or seen him evaluate a position, they would have noticed his tendency of taking daring steps. Even the most cynical minds were consistently astounded by his brilliant ideas as he fancied rook lifts and daring sacrifices.

With his English wife Eileen Ashleigh Tate, he had three children. After their separation, Eileen relocated to the UK along with her kids.

Andrew Tate, his oldest child, is a kickboxer commentator and popular social media influencer. His daughter, Janine Tate Webb, is a lawyer in the United States.

He passed away in 2015 after collapsing all of a sudden during a tournament in Milpitas, California.

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How many times have you wanted to get up from a difficult chess game and aim a right hook at your opponents jaw?

In the world of chess boxing, that would be perfectly legal.

Many people are surprised its a real sport, but chess boxing has been around for 30 years and is popular in Germany, Britain and a few other countries. Players alternate rounds between a speed chess game and a match in the ring. A checkmate or a knockdown ends the contest.

Winnipeg-born Sean Mooney is retired from the sport now, but once played a memorable match at Royal Albert Hall in London that was billed as a battle of the bankers. He worked for Goldman Sachs at the time. Mooney won all three matches he contested.

When you get punched in the head, everyones chess rating drops by about 200 points, says Mooney, who is now a business strategist and consultant in Portland, Oregon. He said blunders at the board were common in the first few seconds after a boxing round ended.

Mooney thinks chess boxing might be ripe for renewed popularity. And a Toronto filmmaker, David Bitton, has recently released a documentary called By Rook or Left Hook - the Story of Chess Boxing.

1.Rxg7+ Kh8 2.Rh7+ Nxh7 3.Nf7+ Kg8 4.Nh6 mate.

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In September 2021, a pilot project of FIDE/UNCHR, Girls Club Chess for Protection Kakuma 2021/2022, was launched by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Lutheran World Federation, Kenya Chess Federation and Kakuma Chess Club.

Kenya is one of the biggest refugee-hosting countries in Africa and the world, hosting over 508,000 refugees mainly from the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa region. Over 40 per cent of all refugees reside in Kakuma refugee camp. The majority of the refugee population in Kakuma and Kalobeyei consists of children and youth.

The project started in the Angelina Jolie primary school with an attendance of 40 students. Chess lessons were held twice a week, once with titled coaches from FIDE WGM Anastasia Karlovich and IM Salome Melia, and once with a local tutor with Peter Diing coordinating in Kakuma.

Within the project, girls not only learn chess but also read and discuss books, improve various skills and achieve personal goals. Apart from acquiring an excellent hobby, entertainment and socialisation, participants could build essential life skills: make their own decisions and take responsibility for them; learn how to correct mistakes, if necessary; improve memory skills; build attention focus skills; develop logic and creativity; increase self-awareness; and recover self-respect, self-esteem and self-confidence.

As the next step in this project, led by FIDE vice president Anastasia Sorokina and FIDE managing director Dana Reizniece-Ozola, a curriculum to be used at other refugee camps was published recently. It was prepared by WGM Anastasiya Karlovich, WFM, IA Shohreh Bayat and WFM Martina Skogvall, and reviewed by WIM Natalija Popova.

White to play and mate (Magnus Carlsen v L Quang Lim, FTX Crypto Cup 2022)

Solutions for chess problems published online on August 14: Ganguly 39... Kg8 40 Qh7+!! Kxh7 41 Nf6+ Kh6 42 Nxf7#; Li 48 Nf6?? Ne2+ 49 Kxe2 Qd1+ 50 Kxd1 - (48 Qe8+ Kh7 49 Qe7+ Kh6 50 Qf6+ Kh7 51 Nc3 Qb2 52 Ne4 1-0); Veiga 26 Qxh7+ Kxh7 27 Rh3+ Nh4 28 Rexh4+ Kg6 29 Rg4+ Kf6 30 Bg5+ 1-0.

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D. Gukesh continued his relentless climb in the world rankings after scoring a hat-trick of wins in the ongoing Turkish Isbank Chess Super League in Ankara on Thursday.

Playing on the top board for third-round leader Turkish Airlines Sports Club, Gukesh defeated Grandmasters Aryan Gholami (2507), Andrey Esipenko (2682) Vahap Sanal (2574) to reach World No. 18 in live rankings and 2735.9 as per live ratings.

With R. Praggnanandhaa making waves in the cash-rich FTX Crypto Cup rapid event, and Arjun Erigaisi leading the Abu Dhabi Masters after three rounds, Gukesh added to the joy by gaining another 10 rating points and six places from the time he finished the Chess Olympiad with twin medals.

As things stand, the country's youngest Grandmaster trails 12th ranked Viswanathan Anand (2756) by around 20 points and leads third-placed P. Harikrishna by 19 points.

Like never before, India has five players in the top 35 of world rankings and eight in the top 90.

Praggnanandhaa (2675.5) and Nihal Sarin (2671.5), with live rankings of 66 and 69, are targeting the coveted 2700-rating barrier.

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D. Gukesh breaks into top 20 in chess rankings, is World No. 18 in live ratings - Sportstar