A performance of a chess game with living pieces. A traditional event since 1954 in Morostica, Italy. The Sultan Mohammed is said to have played the first game at Grenada in 1408. Botvinnik drew with Riumin in 1962 and in 1962 with Smyslov.
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Quotes of the Day
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent!
Robert Fischer
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008